Category: Care staff
CARE HOME BOSS COMMENTS ON COMPULSORY VACCINE PROPOSAL
The boss of a major UK care home operator has welcomed the news that the COVID vaccines could be made compulsory for care workers. Today, the Telegraph revealed that details of a paper...NATIONAL MINIMUM WAGE FOR SLEEP-IN SHIFTS DISMISSED
Care providers do not have to pay workers the national minimum wage for sleep-in shifts, the Supreme Court has today ruled. The case was brought to the UK’s highest court today by...CAMPAIGN LAUNCHED TO COUNTER MISINFORMATION AROUND COVID VACCINE
Care provider Cygnet Health Care has announced the launch of a video campaign called #ihadthevaccine to urge ethnic minority communities to have the COVID-19 vaccine. Amid concerns that the...FREE MENTAL HEALTH AND WELLBEING SESSIONS LAUNCHED FOR CARE SECTOR WORKFORCE
Performing Medicine, specialist in arts-based healthcare training and research, has launched a series of free virtual sessions available throughout March for the health and social care workforce. ...THE CARE WORKERS’ CHARITY PUBLISHES 2020 IMPACT REPORT
The Care Workers’ Charity has provided grants of over £2 million in total to support care workers in 2020, it has been revealed. The Care Workers’ Charity has published...HEROES WEAR CAPES AT YORK CARE HOME
Management at Handley House care home in York created a fun superhero-themed day to thank their staff for all of their ‘super’ work during the course of the coronavirus pandemic. Home...A RECKLESS POLICY: MANDATORY VACCINATION
Helen Jamieson, Founder and MD at Jaluch HR & Training, discusses the issue of employing a ‘no jab, no job’ policy as a care provider and the possible implications you must consider...CARE HOME STAFF DONATE BREAKFASTS TO KEY WORKERS
Cheshire care home staff have provided over 200 key workers with a tasty breakfast to support fellow pandemic heroes. The team from Elworth Grange in Sandbach had the idea of delivering...THE CARE WORKERS’ CHARITY LAUNCHES MENTAL HEALTH SUPPORT PROGRAMME
The Care Workers’ Charity (CWC) has launched a pivotal Mental Health Support Programme in response to the crisis of mental ill-health faced by the UK’s social care workforce. The...CORNISH DJ SWAPS NIGHT CLUBS FOR NIGHT SHIFTS
A former DJ is now working in a care home after he took a drastic career change during the pandemic. Samuel Barnes, from Camborne, lost his job as a nightclub DJ in 2020 as a result of...
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