Job of the Week: Chair mover at Arts Cancel England
UncategorizedYet another superfluous wage-puller:
Are you passionate about removing barriers in the workplace? We’re looking for a Workplace Adjustments Officer to use their lived experience to make a difference for staff at the Arts Council. Find out more and apply by 21 April 
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I imagine a casual conversation.
“Hi, what do you do for a living?”
“I am a Workplace Adjustments Officer ”
“I beg your pardon?”
“I am really passionate about removing barriers in the workplace”
“…”
(With all due respect to the worker, of course).
It’s actually quite a skilled job, to know when to pull the chair from under supposedly unsuitable grant applicants.
Goodness me!! It makes you wonder how we got by without Workplace Adjustments Officers in the 20th Century!! :-0
As someone who doesn’t have a disability, I always got along just fine.
However, the term “officer” smacks of militarism and elitism. The post should be renamed “Workplace Adjustments Manager.”
Manager contains the word “Man”
In some public sector roles, an officer does the work whilst a manager fights the paperwork. This job sounds like they want someone to rearrange the deckchairs as the ACE Titanic slowly stinks beneath them. But let’s not forget fragrant Mary’s review of the ACE – I wonder what that will say…. No case to answer?
Is there any need to be quite so inflammatory? If you’re going to use your platform to post an article you might at least take the necessary time to research what these positions are and why they exist – absolutely happy for you to denounce it based on that knowledge, but it amounts to playground name calling as it currently stands.
Perhaps it’s a fancy name for a Stage Manager?
“Are you passionate about removing barriers in the workplace?”
I wish ACE were more passionate about removing financial barriers that keep poorer people away from, say, opera.
The role is to help disabled employees to get “recommended equipment and software, arranging coaching and training and support the process of identifying, implementing and recording adjustments” to help them do their job. What’s wrong with that? It’s a legal requirement, and also seems like a good investment in employees, no?