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Care work: Education or Experience - what's more important?

Care work: Education or Experience - what's more important?

Getting started as a care assistant doesn’t require any formal qualifications. Should this be the case? Or should a certain level of education be required? Comment Like ❤️ Reply
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How We Can Improve Recruitment and Retention of Care Assistants in Social Care

How We Can Improve Recruitment and Retention of Care Assistants in Social Care

After an eye-opening comment on a previous article, we asked Care Assistant, Zuva, to expand the points she made in an article. Here’s Zuva’s take on how to improve staff retention within Social Care.
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Social Workers: Are We Paid Enough?

Social Workers: Are We Paid Enough?

Are social workers paid enough? Should Social Workers have been included in recent public sector pay settlements? What do you think? Comment Like ❤️ Reply
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Should Care Workers Wear A Uniform?

Should Care Workers Wear A Uniform?

A reader of this site was told not to wear her own leggings when working in a care home. Should care workers have to wear a uniform? What do you think? Comment Like ❤️ Reply .
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What does the Government's 2020 recruitment campaign to create 110,000 social care jobs mean?

What does the Government's 2020 recruitment campaign to create 110,000 social care jobs mean?

With a rapidly ageing populace, the UK Government are attempting to keep up with the demand for social care workers with the ‘Every Day is Different’ campaign. Here we explain what that means for you.
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How Coronavirus is impacting my job as a healthcare worker in mental health

How Coronavirus is impacting my job as a healthcare worker in mental health

I work for a staffing agency in mental health and this is how I'm seeing the impact of Coronavirus affect patients and colleagues.
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How I became a healthcare worker in mental health

How I became a healthcare worker in mental health

A few years ago Anita decided to change the course of her career and do something she'd thought about since her childhood. Here's why and how she became a healthcare worker.
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The difference between healthcare assistants (HCAs) and care assistants

The difference between healthcare assistants (HCAs) and care assistants

Is there a clear differentiation between healthcare assistants and care assistants? Since the nature of both roles overlap, it's hard to create separation between the two - which is where we come in.
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Why I won't return to the Probation Service

Why I won't return to the Probation Service

Explaining the difficulties and changes of the Probation Service since the late 1990's, former Probation Officer Diane Willis tells us why she will never return to the National Probation Service.
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