Raising a Grievance

Here at Nightingales Army we actively promote speaking up. It is how the founding Nightingales began their journey to this vision. Both Directors were employed in a company who did not listen to concerns, staff voicing opinions, offering solutions and ideas, constant shortage of staff, permanent staff doing over time and working until they were ill, reoccurring issues and incidents, accidents, unsafe working environment, loud noise and excess paper work, none of which was reflected in their job description at the time, staff were constantly being attacked for not completing paper work that they had not been trained on or had responsibility for based on the role set out by the employer. The lack of respect and moral within the workplace destroyed peoples mentally, not only staff but residents too and that’s when they could not be ignorant to it anymore. They raised a grievance. They had multiple meetings. They gave suggestions on how to resolve the issues. They gained support from other employees. They openly discussed the idea of Nightingales Army, as we were invited to do so. They were then suspended for having an idea that was in their eyes a conflict of interest. They were shocked how their positive idea was used against them. So, they whistle blew. they were suspended, had an investigation on them and were eventually fired. 

The largest part of their reason of dismissal was the idea we discussed to them after being invited into an open conversation about, Nightingales Army. Competency monitoring and training solution, to provide all health care assistants with the knowledge they need before they enter the home. Reducing turnover, supporting the staff and nurses and increasing retention in turn increasing the moral in the work place especially for the residents who need to build a rapport with staff. Reducing risk accidents and supporting the NHS.