I work for the NHS. I’m non-clinical and in a Band 7 role. The portfolio I work in lost our senior manager when they walked before Christmas due to higher up leaders and stress it was causing them. They’ve since quit and are not returning.
Other staff reporting into this manager have been offered 1:1s and management support. They are a higher band than me - 8a. I’ve been left without. I’ve chased and asked several times to the higher leadership team who I should be reporting to and each time I am met with radio silence. It’s also appraisal season and my question about my appraisal has gone unanswered too.
I have peers who have slightly different remits but are included in key meetings. I’ve asked to attend just from a knowledge and development perspective, but my requests are not responded to. One of the 8as asked in their supervision and the manager to whom I’d asked myself said no I wouldn’t be allowed to attend.
I see these peers gaining knowledge and I’m brought in to something as an afterthought of in other meetings I look stupid as I don’t know what’s going on due to things being discussed in the meeting I’m not to attend.
My confidence is eroding. I feel invisible and undervalued and overlooked I don’t feel like I can stay in this role for much longer. I don’t know what to do / where to escalate requests for support and an appraisal or in for when I get zero response. The others have had job planning too and I’ve asked and again nothing.
Im beginning to feel what’s the point as nothing is going to change. Has anybody else experienced this or similar? Not sure i just need to suck it up.