Art Therapy to cope with a Hatchet Job

My team is the 'front door' to the service.

So, my place of work has decided that after twenty one years, my role should be scarified for the sake of nasty Covid 19.  "It's a crisis", but training and annual leave are not being canceled.  Why are mental health workers being taken from the front line to vaccinate if we have a crisis within our community of patients?  Doesn't look like a crisis to me.  

When I came waiting times for non-urgent cases where 12-18 months, Communication with other services was very poor, and there was a lot of duplication of different services across the community.  I feel very fortunaety to have worked at a time when all this changed.  We had a multi agency project that put children's needs first.  After all we didn't really care about the needs of each other services  and we only shared the children.  We created 'bespoke' packages of care around children focusing on all their needs, not just health, care or educational needs.  We often did less, and were more effective.  We did distrust each other and kept a close eye on what each other's service was up to.  But we also were very motivated, and enjoyed ourselves.  This went on for eleven years before the Banks failed and 25% cuts were brought in to the local authority.  Cooperation was cut.  There was jealousy that the NHS was less affected.  In the NHS admin and managers were cut (no loss of front-line staff, so the system became a shambles.  Waiting times were allowed to increase and my service has returned to it's default position.

1) Insular- no need to communicate with outside agencies.  It's their look out.

2) Long waiting lists.  (People will understand the NHS is over stretched).

3) Early intervention is our lowest priority.  Crisis is the key to the NHS.

So the wheel has gone round and it feels like it is time for me to get off.  Funny to be back at the same place I started, but I saw some great times, and we had some great successes.

Our work is being taken over by the managers. 
It will fail, and they know it.  Their hope is that no one will bother calling.

Our team has always been viewed with suspicion, but we have allies.  Now there is no one.