The Advert

Creating the Advertisement

The Cluster Manager I worked with, approached me and asked me if I’d like to draft an advert to help get more people for my care package, because he recognised my intelligence. So I happily obliged. I loved the idea. I worked really hard on an advert that I thought would give a pretty good overview to someone who might like to work with me.

I did a first draft, and sent it in for feedback, and then I redrafted it based on some examples. He thinks it’s fantastic, and submits it up the chain for release. I don’t hear anything for two weeks, then I’m told by the Director Of Operations that my advert is going out.

Seeing the Published Advertisement

So I, perhaps wrongly, assumed everything was okay. Then I see the advert on Indeed. It is looking for support workers (plural), and explicitly states “What you’ll do – written by the person you’ll be supporting.” and mostly quotes two paragraphs of mine but slightly edited and makes it out that they’d only be working with me, which they wouldn’t. I thought this misrepresented the role.

Contacting Management

I write an email to the Director of Operations asking for the reasons why it was edited and why I wasn’t consulted. She said it had been sent to their ‘legal department’ and they said it had to be edited to “meet advertising standards” and “platform rules”. Well. I checked the platform rules, and it didn’t violate any. I asked Moorview for this legal analysis, and they did not provide it, only a statement from the Chief Executive Officer as part of Complaint 3’s response.

The Gender Requirement Issue

The kicker? One of the things Moorview said they had an issue with? That the role had a (legal) gender requirement (there are good reasons for that, which I won’t go into here) and the Chief Exec said “There were also considerations around the way gender could be specified within the advert and the circumstances in which this can lawfully form part of recruitment criteria.”

Indeed does have rules on gender based discrimination, yes, however their rules quite clearly state:

Approved occupational qualifications

Some roles require certain characteristics for legitimate, job-related reasons. These are known as approved occupational qualifications. If your position has a legally recognised requirement, you may typically include that detail in your post.

And while not specifying a gender requirement on the surface appears less discriminatory, it is far less transparent to then reject applicants who would never be accepted because of hidden filter criteria.

I had written “Working with a female staff member is important to her because of previous trauma.” Yet… a few days later, they put up an advert that also had a gender requirement, “Due to the needs of the people we will be supporting we are actively looking for Two Female Care Professionals to join our Moorview Care Family”… Right, so Moorview can specify requirements, but I can’t?

As of today, 2026-09-05, that Moorview advert is still up. (Update: They took it down, silently. They don’t stand by their own words.)

Even with only two of my paragraphs haphazardly smeared onto Moorview’s version of my advert, apparently the response was good, suggesting that people would like to work with someone like me, but I do think they were just reaching for an excuse for why they’d decided not to talk to me in those two weeks. I’m sure there would have been a middle ground we could have worked towards, but they didn’t approach me. They say they value co-production, but that seems like another thing they use for corporate optics.

Applying for the Job

Well, dear reader. To say I was ticked off, was a bit of an understatement. So, I actually applied for the job. Used my real information, yet for my CV, well… I put my job advert into a Large Language Model and asked it to make it vitriolic. Then I submitted that as my CV. I never heard anything, perhaps I still might get the job?

One of my favourite bits from the output, was what it did to the tags:

#gloriouslyordinarylives (this is code for “our employees are gloriously ordinary and we’re fine with that”)

This quote was generated by an AI