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How I Started My Career As A Carer And Became A Registered Home Manager

How I Started My Career As A Carer And Became A Registered Home Manager

Former Carer & Registered Home Manager, Virginia, outlines her career journey from retail to Home Management, with experience based tips on how you can carve out your own career in Social Care.
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Care assistant in conversation with two older ladies

How To Quit Your Job And Get Into Care Work

Former Care Home Nurse, Claire Carmichael, explains why Care Work is so rewarding and how to get started on your career in Care. Experience is NOT essential.
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How I Became A Health And Social Care Consultant

How I Became A Health And Social Care Consultant

Sian explains how she worked her way up through jobs like Support Work and Care Assistance to become a Health and Social Care Consultant helping turn Care Homes around and improve their CQC rating.
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Health Care Assistant with a care home resident

How to become a Health Care Assistant

Health Care Assistant, Grant Fullerton Sinclair, discusses his career journey into care, what a typical day looks like, and highlights what it takes to become a HCA.
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My job as a PA Manager in Social Care

My job as a PA Manager in Social Care

Read on as Patricia Sadio recalls the life changing event that changed her career, and enabled her to help others struggling with care.
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My Job As A Probation Officer

Diane Wills explains why her job as a Probation Officer is more complicated than people first think.
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Charlotte Rhian Lowe, Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

My job as a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist

Read on as Charlotte Lowe explains her role, and how she is fighting to improve the support offered to school aged children.
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How overseas voluntary work can develop your understanding of social care

How overseas voluntary work can develop your understanding of social care

Ernesto Martínez works in Cornwall as a MFL Assistant Teacher and a Health Care Assistant at a Nursing Home. Originally from Spain, he arrived in England in June 2013 after a six-month project in the Democratic Republic of Congo. This article is about his experience there, working in social development projects, and what he gained during his time there.
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What doesn’t kill you makes you a social worker

What doesn’t kill you makes you a social worker

We’re really grateful to Karen Chazen for this wonderful article about her journey to becoming a qualified social worker. As she says, it’s a career where ‘you get your rewards in the most unexpected places’
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