Why is my NHS employed SIL 'working from home'?

[emptyfridge]

Really confused as to why the government are taking on thousands of volunteers to support the NHS and we are constantly being told of the immense pressure staff are under when my perfectly capable SIL is working from home apparently catching up on paperwork?

So is my SIL (Snr pead nurse in ICU) she’s childless and asked to be redeployed however her hospital aren’t allowing her and she’s currently working from home.

She’s very unhappy about the whole thing, however until her trust finds her a position she will be WFH until further notice.

Shame you didn't enable voting.

I think it would have been virtually unanimous.

And the more you're posting the more everyone disagrees with you.

Not your finest moment is it OP?

You are wfh, why do you think she shouldn't?

I'm a nurse. Our current service is not running as usual. Some staff are working from home, managing people with complex health needs' care- liaising with them, liaising with care agencies as obviously lots are self isolating, managing hospitals admissions etc. If I was doing this I'd use childcare for my small children (2 and 5) as i couldn't concentrate alone on the job and do childcare and the stakes are too high in this climate.

I'm on a rota to help hospitals discharge healthy patients home. Have some working from home days slipped in to keep on top of our actual job. We are on call though and both working from home days I have had I have been called into work.

It is possibly to work from home and be NHS, and be frontline too!

I am a sister on a ward for the NHS. Every site comms that goes out states that anyone who can work from home MUST work from home to reduce the spread of Coronavirus and to protect the medical staff who can’t work from home. There are many jobs within the NHS that aren’t on the frontline.

So because things are hard and shit for you , you want them to be the same for her?

That's way and above the normal jealousy and envy.

If she stopped doing these things, it wouldn't change your situation in any way, it wouldn't make it better. You just want hers to be more shit than it is.

Wow what a bitchy post!
I work for the NHS and I am currently working from home. Just because we have had to reduce the footfall into our building and staff are working on rotation. Get your facts right first before posting!

I somewhat agree with you OP. The golden status NHS workers get at the moment should be reserved for those on the front line i.e. those interacting with people who have/likely to have the virus face to face and putting themselves at risks of catching it.

Those NHS workers working entirely from home - whilst still important shouldn't be able to claim the same glory as those putting their lives at risk. As you say, claiming privileges such as NHS supermarket slots (which are there for staff who are not from working from home as they can't just pop to the shops whenever) and key worker privileges when a lot of people important to the running of the country who are working from home have to have their kids off from school and juggle it with their WFH tasks.

I feel like NHS staff who work from home, whilst important are putting themselves far less at risk than e.g. delivery drivers, takeaway places, supermarket staff etc. Without the heightened risk, NHS workers working from home are in fact just doing the job they signed up to in the first place (yes probably at higher capacity but that's something a lot of industries have at the moment).

Clearly you do have too much free time on your hands because you've gone through the trouble of finding this site, signing up, creating your shitty op and you're posting quite frequently....

Yeah, she shouldn’t be using the nhs key worker shopping times. For a start I reckon they’re a high risk time slot for catching it! All those people who have been exposed to the virus under one roof!

I have an nhs ID and am not using the nhs shopping hours. Initially because I didn’t feel entitled to and now because of thinking about high risk they will be.

Jealousy is such an unattractive trait

Also I work three 12 hour shifts a week but I’m still using the NHS allocated times at supermarkets because otherwise I’ll end up living off the leftover crap with zero nutritional value that nobody else wants who seem to be buying for their families of 5000 and then throwing their fruit and veg hoards in the bin when they have gone mouldy!

@emptyfridge

WHAT DOES YOUR SIL DO?

It has been asked several times and you have conveniently not answered?

Is she WFH full time now? Or just today / this week?

As per my earlier, everyone involved in my disabled child's care is WFH.

Supermarkets are much better stocked now so the NHS slot thing wouldn't bother me at all.

Sending the children to childcare is surely dependant ON WHAT JOB SHE DOES (that you aren't telling us) and whether she is now WFH full time or not?

OP, if I've read the tone of your post correctly, you come across not as confused but incredibly bitchy and faux confused.

Her manager presumably has told her to work from home. Which means that her job can be done from home.

Her doing the non-skilled jobs that volunteers are asked to do, would mean her regular work won't get done. And presumably that work needs to be done, since the hospital employs her to do it. The paperwork side of it might be finndamental to what she does, or something that's been put aside for a long time because she had tyoo much on her plate, like many NHS workers.

Either way, she has been directed to do what she's doing, so it's rreally no business of yours.

For every example of people pulling together, showing enormous generosity and a desire to help alleviate the struggles of those around them, there are countless others like the OP begrudging every crumb of benefit allocated to other people, desperate to account for every single credit and debit in case someone else is getting something they aren’t.

Also I work three 12 hour shifts a week but I’m still using the NHS allocated times at supermarkets because otherwise I’ll end up living off the leftover crap with zero nutritional value that nobody else wants who seem to be buying for their families of 5000 and then throwing their fruit and veg hoards in the bin when they have gone mouldy!

So you expect the other key line workers to have the left over crap with zero nutritional valve to feed there families who are having to work over time to deliver essential services?

Believe me, if an NHS employee's function is considered non-essential at the current time, and they have no underlying health conditions, they are being or very soon will be redeployed.

If SIL is being permitted to work from home, then she still has an essential role to perform. "Paperwork" within the NHS is a legal requirement.

My women’s physio is working from home as is her admin team. They are still talking to patients and giving info / advice / equipment

You sound green with envy. I hope you're sil sees this thread and gives you a wide berth. As another poster said this pandemic has brought out the best and the worse in people and it's clear its brought out the worse in you.

She's just riled me a lot recently by using key worker slots at school for her 2 dc and using the special NHS time at the supermarket.

Driiiiiiiip.

Weren’t getting the outrage you were looking for, huh?

You seem to be absolutely determined to pick fault with your SIL

My DH is high risk for corona (mid- 60s, diabetic, ashmatic and with inflammatory bowel disease) he is a (non UK') mhcp. He is currently working from home "doing paperwork"

• writing up the notes from the morning ward round into patient journals
• writing up decisions from this mornings court cases and prosecutor decision that influence patients
• checking test results, reviewing blood work and discussing potential treatment changes
• Reading and actioning monitoring reports of patients on long term community leave
• new job - going through the corona tests of unwell staff to determine who can return to work

On Saturday he will be doing a 24 hour frontline shift i the MH A&E unit

OP it’s just been in the news that a hospital in London is begging for qualified nurses to enlist at their trust... why don’t you point her in the right direction...