DS is disabled and works with young people and adults who have the same disability as him, he also has a qualification in the same field.
He is good at his job and has feedback both from clients and professionals to say this.
The problem is his work continuously seem to underestimate or undermine him.
i.e they started a session specifically empowering people with his disability. They gave the running of this session to someone who has no experience or qualification and has only been there a short time because they did not want it to be too much for him but they did not even ask him how he would feel about doing it. The man who runs it is great but DS feels like he was passed over when he too could have been.
They ran a support session where young people could discuss the difficulties they faced socially and with their MH due to their disability, again he was not asked despite the fact he is the only one there who has actual personal experience of what it feels like to have that disability.
They went to a press event to represent support and awareness for the disability and ds was the only staff who was not invited. He was left at work alone to run the group that day.
On one hand they treat him like he is incapable and say it is because they do not want to overwhelm him but this does not seem to apply when they want him to do something which they do not want to do (i.e he is suddenly capable to work entirely alone on days they do not want to do)
There have also been incidents were he has been unhappy with their behaviour towards the disabled young people. eg shouting at DS when he has been trying to talk calmly to a young person rather than what they wanted him to do which was to restrain them and move them to another room (with no safe handling/restraint training) when the disabled person was not a danger to themselves or others.
A member of staff he works with constantly undermines ds and ignores what he says and frequently skives off leaving ds alone doing everything and management do nothing.
There are other examples which are not professional as such.
He found out that the entire staff had gone on a meal out and he was the only one not invited (it was an evening of a day he was not in work but he was not asked. There is a social media group for work and he is not in it and various other incidents.
aibu to think they are treating ds as a bit of a mug and if so how would you (as DS) handle it?