I worked in an outstanding hospital for over 5 years. My team were great, but I felt like I needed a challenge. I went for another role (same grade) that would be managing more staff and the job description stated that it would be mostly clinical.
I have just completed my first week. I feel very deflated. I've met with a number of staff who are all wanting to do a great job but they have stated that the hospital is not well led. The hospital was outstanding but was downgraded recently due to requiring improvement and one of those areas is regarding being not so well led. The staff I have met are all lovely and I feel so bad that they have not been supported and that they have clearly struggled. There is a lot of sickness in the team which I believe I will be expected to cover. The services do not run well. There aren't enough policies in place to protect nurses in their practice.
I'm not sure what to do. This is a big culture shock for me. I believe my old trust will start having similar problems as the management has changed significantly. Also the person who took over my role is very junior and is already struggling. I am supporting my old colleague as she messages and calls me. I did hand over to her and could see at that point she would struggle. I advised her before she went for the job that she may struggle and she needed to ensure that she utilised the other senior nurses around her. I don't think going back to my old Trust would make any difference as I feel the trust is heading for a downgrade by cqc due to a number of issues with bullying and clinical incidents that have occurred.
The options I can see would be to stay in the new Trust and work with the new management to help improve services. This is going to be a hard slog. I don't know if i would be successful in trying to change a culture that is imbedded within the hospital. Although, there are new managers and my boss is great and really wants to make changes. Or, I could move to another hospital which would add 15 minutes to my already longish commute (would be between 50 to 65 minutes longer if i leave later in the morning). The job in the other Trust is a band lower than my current role but the salary is more due to London weighting. I would not be managing a team.
I'm not sure what to do. My partner and I want to have a family so I wasn't planning on doing so many additional hours in my own time, which given the problems in the trust I believe I would end up doing.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I know no one can make the decision for me but it would be good to hear other people's thoughts
Thanks in advance