NHS middle management, non-clinical (Band 8a). My role is quite changeable and a bit of a 'jack of all trades' as it's been created around five years ago and nobody can seem to quite agree on the actual job description.
Been doing the role on secondment for three years and kind of made it my own, I know that I provide valuable support for operational and clinical managers so they can get on and do the 'on the floor' management stuff while I e.g. write their reports, data analysis, etc. Recently been offered the same post permanently covering another area of the same Trust so of course jumped at the chance...
The new area works differently in that the staff are pooled rather than having a post for each service.... but not only that, the role seems to be a glorified admin role and not much more! For example, training figures get emailed over every week, I would do a deep dive and identify trajectories in terms of compliance and where additional courses would need to be provided... the new area just send it on to the clinical managers to do the same.
I thrive off being busy, usually more than busy. I'm ASD and ADHD but have that peculiar advantage which means I can hyperfocus and get stuff done in half the time of most NT people (it's just the way I've always been). But because of the way the new job is, that means I AM SO BORED. I literally ask what else can I do but our manager is so hard to pin down I literally don't know. I can't carry on like this!
I'm still looking for other opportunities but as what I do is quite niche and redundancy is a real thing these days the posts are few and far between. I just don't know what to do without exposing my colleagues not to be doing the job properly (not their fault, it's not deliberate - they can only do what is asked of them and won't be aware of every additional task I did in my previous area) - but these people are being paid £62k a year to do basic admin....