I’m just looking for a bit of advice on how to refocus my work life. I work three days a week as a leader in a care organisation (trying not to be too outing here). My role is most recruitment and retaining the existing staff, mostly fulfilling the HR role, but without an HR qualification.
Due to to nature of the job, it’s quite high pressure, stressful and emotionally hard for a lot of the staff, so I do a lot of hand holding, listening to the hard things they’ve been through, and pointing them in the direction of additional support. We’ve had several people attempt suicide and I have been the person who has supported them through their recovery. I’m known for being a good person to turn to in difficult times. I am however, struggling a bit.
Other leaders don’t like that their staff come to me, they think they should go to them, but my role is specifically pastoral, whereas their’s is not. I’ve also had some feedback that I try and relate too much to the employees. I am neurodiverse, and I think this is a trait I share with other ND people.
I’ve also been juggling other jobs to try and earn enough money to live on, so I’m very tired and I’ve had a lot of big life things in the last few months, house moves, parental deaths, that kid of thing. I’m very tired and burnt out.
I’ve started to think a bit about work and how to refocus my role so I’m doing less of the pastoral stuff, which is definitely needed, but not appreciated by my colleagues in leadership positions. I’ve been thinking about quiet quitting, or something similar. Just turn up, do the paperwork, give the people struggling a leaflet and just mentally check out from most of the stressful stuff.
Has anyone done similar? Or does anyone have advice on how to move forward? I really need to re-balance things for my own mental health, because this burn out is not fun. Any advice? Thanks in advance.