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About home care jobs
Home care jobs offer home care workers an opportunity to work with people in their own homes. It’s about taking care and treatment to people, in situations familiar to them and the surroundings that they feel most comfortable in.
Home care jobs are, arguably, the key link between healthcare and social care. This is because home care jobs are about enabling clients to become independent... to recover... to rehabilitate... to heal... to interact... to cope and lead as normal a life as possible given their social or health issues.
The relevant point here is that jobs in home care are about providing clients and patients with a degree of support while, at the same time, enabling them to remain independent. Sometimes also called outreach jobs, home carer jobs perform either a function of health care or social service.
Why is there so much emphasis on home health jobs?
Educated estimates of the cost to the NHS to fund long-term elderly care were put at £4.23bn in late 2010. The UK has a growing elderly population. During the first decade of the 21st Century the UK’s health care service saw a huge increase in the number of hospital admissions for those aged over 60. Combine that with the restraints on hospital funding between 2010-2015 and you can see why there’s been such a huge emphasis on the importance of delivering home care in the UK (according to The Times, October 29th 2010, over 75s hospital stays increased by over 60% between 2000-2010). Filling elderly care jobs will become one of the UK’s biggest recruitment challenges.
It’s inevitable then that we will see an increase in the number of home care jobs and domiciliary care jobs; it’s a trend that is guaranteed to continue. And not just elderly care jobs either. Analysts and healthcare experts feel the NHS will fail, quite simply, if hospital stays are not reduced by increasing focus, funds and energy on social care, whether it is for the elderly or the young, those with learning disabilities or mental health needs. The push for more home care was no doubt one of the drivers behind social care (as an industry) being bundled through the 2010 spending review cuts with relative impunity.
It’s felt that the UK Government is hoping to save over £2.5bn by increasing and improving home care. It’s why you’ll see so many home care jobs on SocialCare.co.uk, listing 100s of home care jobs across the UK, with, of course, a density of home care vacancies in the cities (home care jobs in London is a search that typically reveals many vacancies).
So, it is believed, much can be achieved through good home health care jobs: effective clinical treatment, nutritional advice, therapeutic care, rehabilitation... the list goes on. Good home care, organised well, allows resources to be lifted from the responsibility of hospitals, and reducing hospital admissions numbers.
What are home health jobs?
Home care nursing jobs and care at home jobs might work with elderly clients (senior home care jobs), or clients with learning disabilities, or those with mental health care needs, or families that require more complex social support -
it’s not just about nursing home care jobs. In fact, residential home care jobs are often not about nursing. Typically care at home jobs involve frequent visits to people homes, but some live in care jobs may need a carer or nurse to provide constant support from within the client’s own home.
Career progression opportunities are good. Home care assistant jobs can develop up the ladder to home care manager jobs, with your own caseload and team to manage.
