Clinical nursing assistant Joe Baldwin worked tirelessly on the NHS front line throughout the pandemic.
The 36-year-old was redeployed across all departments at Liverpool’s Aintree Hospital as, along with thousands of colleagues across Britain, he went above and beyond the call of duty to keep the desperately ill alive.
But Joe slowly began to realise the life he had known was slipping away from him. Despite having 14 years experience at the hospital under his belt he was only earning £18,500-a-year and, as prices began to shoot up, his wage no longer covered life’s basics.
