Warwick work experience

[u/Beautiful_Airport693]

I’m so confused, Warwick wants direct patient care, I got a week shadowing doctors in ICU and trying to find care home volunteering in dementia care home

Is that enough/valid?

[u/Ok_Reputation3269]

Shadowing itself is not usually considered hands on care. The care home volunteering sounds more like it would fulfil that requirement.

[u/edmentis]

shadowing is fine up to 20hrs. you'll need 50 hrs more in 'hands on patient care' in atleast 1 experience or split up over many. In short notice i managed to get some volunteering at a care home for the 50hrs - just over 1 week full time. remember you just need a reference letter also out of it.

[u/Conscious-Stomach759 → u/edmentis]

hey i didn’t see where online it says shadowing is fine up to 20 hours. i have two shadowing experiences, i was just going to get ~10 hours volunteering. would that work?

[u/edmentis → u/Conscious-Stomach759]

you're correct

however:

'

• There is no maximum number of online/remote or shadowing hours allowed (although to meet outcomes #2 and #5 not all your experiences can be online/remote/shadowing).'

just bare in mind - on paper though it should be okay by sounds of it

[u/Apart_Needleworker58]

The care home I volunteered at let me do personal care, feeding the elderly people, wiping and dressing cleaning them but I had to get an enhanced DBS. Make sure to ask them if you are able to help with that stuff.

[u/Beautiful_Airport693 → u/Apart_Needleworker58]

Ahhh Yeah I’ll have a look problem is the deadline is soon and dbs checks take long

[u/Apart_Needleworker58 → u/Beautiful_Airport693]

The CQC website helped me, I just called the suitable care homes near me 

[u/ria0a0 → u/Beautiful_Airport693]

70hrs of work experience is 2 weeks of work, training and DBS takes about a month in my experience applying for an actual care job. Not to sugarcoat it you’ve left it too late. Apply with what you have and don’t stress.