Tsars in their eyes...
"The NHS has hired “lived experience” tsars on salaries of up to £115,000, despite ministers vowing a war on waste in the health service.
Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is recruiting a director for lived experience who must have experiences of a life-altering health condition and “significant power imbalances” in their use of health services.
Its tsar will “ensure brave spaces” for people to give feedback and will be based at St George’s Hospital, Stafford, on a salary of £110,000-£115,000 per year – four times that of a newly qualified nurse or junior doctor.
They should also “seek out and heavily involve seldom heard, under-represented and/or disadvantaged groups” and be a “strategic bridge-builder”, a job advertisement says.
An NHS source said such power imbalances would include “feeling disempowered, vulnerable and that an individual’s own voice is lost” in using mental or physical secondary health services.
The trust claims it is the first such board-level position in the health service, but The Telegraph has identified at least 20 “lived experience” job titles across seven NHS trusts, being paid a total of at least £600,000.
On Friday night, the NHS was accused of “inventing problems and creating jobs to solve them”.
Source - Daily Telegraph today
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Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (MPFT) is recruiting a director for lived experience who must have experiences of a life-altering health condition and “significant power imbalances” in their use of health services.
Its tsar will “ensure brave spaces” for people to give feedback and will be based at St George’s Hospital, Stafford, on a salary of £110,000-£115,000 per year – four times that of a newly qualified nurse or junior doctor.
They should also “seek out and heavily involve seldom heard, under-represented and/or disadvantaged groups” and be a “strategic bridge-builder”, a job advertisement says.
An NHS source said such power imbalances would include “feeling disempowered, vulnerable and that an individual’s own voice is lost” in using mental or physical secondary health services.
The trust claims it is the first such board-level position in the health service, but The Telegraph has identified at least 20 “lived experience” job titles across seven NHS trusts, being paid a total of at least £600,000.
On Friday night, the NHS was accused of “inventing problems and creating jobs to solve them”.
Source - Daily Telegraph today
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