Editorial
Winter is Coming
Angela Gifford Owner of Able Community Care Ltd.
Home Care in the UK W
ill talk of a career path encourage more people to work in the Care Sector? A point of view from a Home Care Provider since 1980. One definition of a career path is: a sequence or series of job positions which lead on to short term or long-term professional goals.
2. A second level would provide assistance with personal care, helping to shower a person, supporting continence needs, mobility support, medication assistance, helping to feed a person, etc. 3. The third level is for more complex care, the level before the support needs to become a nursing or mental health nursing need.
Career path sounds attractive, butAble in the home care sector, thesupporting older and disabled Throughout the UK Community Care will be vast number of people working in this area of care support are Few would recognise this as a career path, but such a system people through all kinds of weather. care workers who daily turn up at an individual’s front door to would enable a care worker to choose to remain at the support Supporting with Live-in Carers offer domestic personal care support provide care support from a 15-minute visit who to covering 24/7. support, level they feel happier with or to progress to the next stages and The real engine of companionship. any care system. knowing the difference in skills needed would be compensated with a higher wage. Able Community Care was established in 1980 and has enabled thousands of people, There is little scope for a career path in the care sector. There are throughout the UK, to remain living in their own home throughout every season. approx. 950,000 care workers in England so very few are going Daily the number of care workers is reducing. The sector to make senior professional positions. Can we help someone youSome know?may go onto other needs a major shakeup and now is the time to do it. related professions such as nursing, but they are a tiny minority. Call 01603 764567 for our Live-in Care brochure or email to Angela Gifford info@ablecommunitycare.com It is my view therefore that trying to encourage people into this Owner of Able Community Care Ltd. sector can only come from one direction and that is having www.ablecommunitycare.com levels of care that have related, skill set, renumeration. www.ablecommunitycare.com 1. There should be domestic task care workers, offering support that enables people to stay in their own home such as shopping, cleaning, making meals, laundry, being outside the door when someone has a shower, etc. the choice to stay Because
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in your own home with your own front door is priceless.
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