career
not an easy decision and i'm not looking for an answer, just other people's experiences and ways of dealing with it.
My issue is work. i'm a nurse of the sedentary variety, but it can be, and is becoming even more, stressful. i have a manager who appears to say all the right things to look caring but does not behave so. i feel she is manipulating things so that i appear 'in the wrong'.
my dilemma is, do i switch to a non-clinical job and lose my mental health officer status - as it stands, i could retire on full pension in 6 years, but if i move to a non-clinical job, i'd have to work to age 60 for full pension i.e. due to ill-health, i'd have to work longer!?
any similar experiences? any obvious solution which i've missed?
<a href='https://shift.ms/community/people/oskar/' rel='nofollow'>@oskar</a>, I found myself in a similar position some years ago. Did I :- 1. stay off sick, go on Incapacity Benefit and hope for medical retirement; or 2. Take voluntary severance; or 3. take voluntary early retirement. I needed some advice and I received that from my union, who prioritised the options from most advantageous downwards. You need similar advice, so do you have a union to ask?
@ stumbler - thanks for the advice. i do have a union rep, who i believe is good. i'm meeting him, my manager, her manager and HR tomorrow to discuss long term sick leave - i have exceeded what is acceptable in this last year. the meeting had originally been organised through union and me to discuss the apalling high expectations of me, but the boss has hi-jacked it and turned it into a review of me, not my treatment at work. i'm sitting here typing, getting more and more wound up. i'm currently on phased return to work, then boss told me on friday afternoon i was rota'd for something monday morning. i have to go to work 1st thing, put in half a day, then cross the city by bus to be put on 'trial'. i'm 'kin' fuming.