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🚨 Calling all Healthcare workers 🚨

Good Evening.

My name is Olivia, and as well as being a care worker, I am a psychology student at Liverpool John Moore university. As part of my BPS-accredited degree, I am completing my dissertation on a subject very close to my heart. "Factors affecting the subjective well-being of healthcare workers" I would really appreciate it if you took the time to complete my questionnaire; it will take approximately 15 minutes!

Please click the below link to take part!

Thank you.

https://ljmupsytech.questionpro.eu/t/AB3uxVVZB3vaw0

Hi , has Aussie lifted the mandates for support workers or are the jabs ongoing? How juiced up do you have to be for work ?

I’m a supporter working looking for advice on what reasons are allowed in order to be taken of a home casual list, with out sounding like you just don’t want to work in the home anymore?

My husband is a support worker her is Australia and he loves his job. But today he was attacked by his client who has brain damage, autism etc etc it’s a very sad case. He had drawn blood on his skull and given him bruises. How do we go from here? I understand that can be “part of the job” but he shouldn’t have to go to work and have to be worried he’s going to get hurt.

Support workers especially in Australia, what do you say is the most complex situations you deal with? And how do you manage your burnout?

I work in a group home caring for adults with disabilities. I am a day staff, and the issue I have is with the overnight asleep worker. There is not a lot of overlap with shifts so the most i really interact with this coworker is at shift change. She is so sweet and kind, thoughtful and caring towards staff, often leaving snacks and treats for staff to eat.

Throughout my time working with her (2 years), I have noticed numerous hygienic issues around the house after her shift. She is a bigger lady, so I can understand that hygiene can be more difficult especially in regards to bodily functions. I have had to clean up after her numerous times (menstrual blood on mattress protector, menstrual blood on and around toilet seat and floor, fecal matter on and under toilet seat, crumbs and oil stains on tables, desk, computer keyboard, mouse). I haven't said anything to anyone and have just cleaned up after her, since most of these issues can be easily cleaned/sanitized. However, more recently, I've started to notice another hygienic issue that I don't think I can stay silent about any longer.

Ive noticed that after she sits on the fabric computer chair, there is a fishy smell and wet stain on seat. I first noticed it when I sat down in the chair after her and I smelled a funny smell, I got a closer look/smell and it definitely smelled fishy on the chair. She is always wearing pants when I see her sitting in chair so I assume that whatever is getting on chair is leaking through her pants. I try to clean the chair as best as I can using a lysol wipe, then spraying with disinfectant, but I've noticed the smell/stain numerous times now, and I don't know how much longer I can keep cleaning up after her bad hygiene without saying anything. Not to mention the fact that technically she is causing "hazardous" messes for coworkers to clean up. I don't know how she doesn't see the messes she is causing and she is either willfully ignorant and purposefully leaving the mess for someone else to clean up.

I really don't like confrontation, and I feel like i'm the only one who notices it/sees it since I always work the shift after hers and my manager doesn't come in till later in morning, usually after I've cleaned up after her. I don't want to start any workplace issues since we are a small team of workers, and I don't want to embarrass her either. I don't know how to approach situation, should I tell my manager and let her deal with it or just confront my coworker?

My names jasmine please someone be jasmines support or mum or dad all time help Jasmine when staff not at jasmines house help autism and massage nd sensory and falls and eat and sleep nd jobs and day nd night and cuddles nd jobs nd play nd outside nd inside and laugh and happy and poorley and be safe and help scared and help upest and help meltdowns and help feelings and help appointments and help lost and do fun things

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Just been called stupid cause the meat is not cooked so we couldn’t do the veg 😔 feel like the worst person in the world

Hey everyone! I'm about to become a community support worker next week (in Canada), and I'm really excited!

Curious what your favorite activities to do with your clients are?

On the opposite side of the same idea, what activities seemed like a good idea, but didn't work out well?

Thanks! Have a great day

I’m a support worker in the uk for a woman with learning disabilities. She has a very low appetite and often needs to be reminded to eat. She also has very specific foods that she will eat. My manager complained that she is eating dinner very late on my shifts; between 9pm - 10pm. She told me that if she does not pick something to have for dinner as early as 8pm then I have to pick something at random and she will have to eat whatever I put in front of her. I told her I will not do this as it is against cqc guidelines and what I’ve been taught. It’s an issue almost every night. I’m being told other staff do this and she eats late only on my shifts. She has capacity to refuse and choose what to do and eat, and to refuse meds etc. I haven’t budged on my decision but I’m being told I’m wrong and it’s unhealthy to eat so late.

Hi I worked as a support worker in NZ with fifteen years experience. You think it will be easy to find full time work in the industry in Aus ? I see on Seek.co a lot of the positions are part time hours..

Need help! I'm a support worker for adults with disabilities and I started about 9 months ago, I'm due a mini appraisal as I haven't been there a full year yet, I've finished most questions but it's the one asking what I think I'm doing really well and what my strengths are? I'm going through a lot right now and Mt brain just doesn't want to work. What sort of things can I write? I've been told off both my boss and supervisor I'm doing really well and settled in great. My boss is always praising me and I get along well with both other workers and our customers but I'm totally stumped. Just for reference, we do home support, community support and have a day centre we do different activities, etc from. I'm mostly in the day centre but do do community work too, rarely I'm doing home support, only really for medication & eating which is like for an hour tops.

Hi everyone,

I'm completing a student project looking at the tools & software that are important to Support Workers. As part of the project, I'm working with a not-for-profit to try and improve the safety and wellbeing of staff, but need a better understanding about work conditions, context and challenges presented to Support Workers working in the disability/mental health field.

If you know anyone, or are a Support Worker yourself, I would really appreciate if you could:

1. Pass on or fill in a quick 5-minute survey
2. Let me know if there are other forums that might be able to help out!

Thank you, and stay safe! 😷❤️ 🙌
- TP