Pros: unless you are in upper eschlons of management, or of a medical background. no one else is of value to tp.
Cons: plenty, all of the above for example.
It is nothing short of a travesty the way that Turning Point has made almost 2,000 people redundant in the last six months, redeploying their posts and downgrading them from Project Worker 11 level (£19,000 to £22,000) to 'recovery' and 'support' worker posts, affording pathetic, breadline salaries that don't even provide workers with a decent income
– more... and therefore standard of living so they can achieve 'self actualisation' (as described by Masloe's Hierarchy, part of NVQ training so desired by Turning Point as qualification for these roles).
This is something we would aspire to with our clients, but hardly achievable ourselves as workers even, in these kind of conditions.
A 'recovery worker' can expect to carry out the same tasks as a project worker originally performed for approximately 6 to £7000 less a year, around £13,000 to £16,000.
Simlarily, the 'support worker' can expect this level of responsibility also, and be typically paid £12,000 to £14,000 a year.
In effect, this shoddy, cheap organisation is devaluing the skills of long term and highly experienced drugs workers and completely undermining their confidence so that we are seeing them leave the field in drones, leaving candidates with academic qualifications in substance misuse but often little or no experience.
I have seen the damage to clients caused by this at first hand.
Shame on you Turning Point, you are putting mentally ill, vulnerable clients at risk and turning the lives of many dilligent and caring workers upside down. – less
wuggly – 20 May 2013
this must be a national policy,it mirrors everything I saw in my office,no one lasts more than 6 months,there have been 11 people left in 1 year,the novices are blamed for everything and management take no responsibility.they are only interested in keeping the money coming in through police station contracts,and manipulate the rest