You recognise how unhappy you are so I think it’s time to look for something else. I will say, sometimes you are closer to burnout than you thought. I was struggling in a job once, it was building up for months and months- high workload, not enough staff. Then one day I was booking in on my own, and more and more work was continually being brought to me faster than I could book it in- boxes and boxes just kept piling up whilst I worked through my breaks and rushed about frantically. It was an impossible task. When a colleague walked past and innocently asked ‘how’s it going?’ I just burst into tears 😳 and honestly, I’m really not the bursting-into-tears-at-work type. I think I was more surprised than my colleague. I knew it was crap but I didn’t expect to just break like that all of a sudden. It was mortifying. I loved the actual ins and out of the job itself but the service was chronically underfunded (NHS, if you haven’t already guessed) and the pressures on us were insane. Plus there’s all the emotional blackmail and guilt tripping from mgmt about how ‘it’s patients’ and you obviously don’t care enough if you are allowing backlog to build up etc etc. They’d tell us off for doing mandatory training instead of ‘the work’, but then it’s all ‘why haven’t you done your mandatory training?!’ fucking toxic environment. The jobs market IS horrible, so be prepared for it to take a while. I ended up having to search outside my desired radius and applied for loads of things, but after a few months I got an offer in the private sector. Life was significantly better post-NHS.