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I noticed and interesting job advert ate the weekend placed by the Mental Welfare Commission for Scotland which is seeking to recruit a new chief executive - and here are some of the key details about the job.
£95,000 - £105,450
Chief Executive Officer - Job Description
Job Purpose
To provide dynamic, strategic leadership to ensure the Commission carries out its statutory remit to safeguard the welfare and human rights of individuals with mental illness, learning disability and related conditions. Our duties are set out primarily in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000.
To influence and challenge all key stakeholders to ensure the rights of the individual and the principles of the Acts are upheld. To ensure the Commission achieves a significant public and professional profile and is able to influence and challenge policy and practice.
Now what I can't get my head around is the fact that there appears to be two different salaries for the job - one if the successful applicant comes from outside the NHS, but a much higher salary (I presume) if the job is given to a consultant psychiatrist.
Because being a consultant psychiatrist is not a requirement for the job which has of course been evaluated at a salary of £95,000 to £105,450 - objectively on the basis of its duties and responsibilities.
So how can the job be worth more just because the same duties and responsibilities are carried out by a consultant requirement - who might be earning a much higher salary, say somewhere between £150,000 to £200,000 a year?
To my mind it does not make sense and is potentially discriminatory - as well as being a terrible waste of public money.
To provide dynamic, strategic leadership to ensure the Commission carries out its statutory remit to safeguard the welfare and human rights of individuals with mental illness, learning disability and related conditions. Our duties are set out primarily in the Mental Health (Care and Treatment) (Scotland) Act 2003 and the Adults with Incapacity (Scotland) Act 2000.
To influence and challenge all key stakeholders to ensure the rights of the individual and the principles of the Acts are upheld. To ensure the Commission achieves a significant public and professional profile and is able to influence and challenge policy and practice.
Now what I can't get my head around is the fact that there appears to be two different salaries for the job - one if the successful applicant comes from outside the NHS, but a much higher salary (I presume) if the job is given to a consultant psychiatrist.
Because being a consultant psychiatrist is not a requirement for the job which has of course been evaluated at a salary of £95,000 to £105,450 - objectively on the basis of its duties and responsibilities.
So how can the job be worth more just because the same duties and responsibilities are carried out by a consultant requirement - who might be earning a much higher salary, say somewhere between £150,000 to £200,000 a year?
To my mind it does not make sense and is potentially discriminatory - as well as being a terrible waste of public money.
