Being constantly undermind...... what to do....

[SmileLady]

Just that, really.

How do I 'park' this feeling and just get on with what I can do instead of secretly seething ? For context, I am a highly qualified person in my field with 24 years of experience. I am trying hard NOT to be seen to undermine my manager. Its a trust of schools and my equivalents in the other schools call me for advice and guidance and I have to re-direct them back to him all the time and he gets annoyed with me.

But every opportunity he gets, he dives into my work, and when I go in or log in, lots has changed. He is not qualified in the role, he was a admin person and worked way up- very good at writing policy but doesn't have a wider understanding of issues. It's a Child Protection type role. They need me in the post as I have the qualifications and experience, but he is my manager. So, on paper, I am the actual person in the role, and they are also, but also, my superior- although it's confusing. It's like we do the same role- but they had to employ me as this person doesn't have the qualification- they also earn about 20k more than me a year. But I have put up with this as my kids get bursary for the school (its an independent school). I have 5 more years till they graduate.

Why are you redirecting people to him?

Because he is the Strategic Safeguarding Lead for the school Trust- and also does the frontline Safeguarding role as he's not qualified to do the Strategic Role. But on paper, he manages all the School-Based Safeguarding Leads. There are 6 of us. He has the same job role as me but has the stipend to do the Strategic role. It's so confusing. He works all night (for no apparent reason) and adds non-sensical supervision notes to my cases. He rings Children's Services and insists on referrals for families I have been working with to manage risks internally. They don't need referrals, which causes lots of problems. I am really fed up.

Report him. Report him to the authorities.

What authorities? He has no professional qualifications, so he is not held accountable to anyone, aside from being in the school forever and everyone hanging on his every word. If it weren't for the bursaries for my kids, I would have left.

I know how to manage risks and support families. I have done this work since I was 19. I am held accountable to yearly registration and accreditation.

I just needed to moan anonymously about this, as nothing will change unless he retires. He's worked there for over 30 years and started as a data inputter in the late 1980s. He has taken much joy in explaining all the different jobs he's done in the school

data Inputter
maintenance
admin person
maintenance and facilities admin
facilities manager
etc etc until the person doing the safeguarding had a heart attack and died and as he got on so well with the Head at the time, they gave him the role.

Can you lock your documents so no changes can be made? This would be possible if they were MS Office docs. Or track changes so you can go in and delete them all.

This makes no sense to me. And my last comment was deleted for just saying that you can’t undermine him.
It is not healthy to hear only what you want to hear.

You could try looking at the money you're saving through receiving a bursary for at least two children and accepting that you actually get the equivalent of significantly higher salary than he does.