Support work with no personal care involved

Savvy_Sue

top_drawer wrote: »

If an administrator applies for a job stating that they dont want to be involved in data input, how does it have anything to do with their willingness or not in answering the telephone? It seems that somehow this area of work it has somehow become acceptable to blur the lines between the roles.

Well, I'd expect an administrator to get stuck into anything which needed doing within an office, even if they weren't originally employed for data input but only to answer the phone (which isn't likely to happen).

ANY job requires a certain degree of flexibility. ANY job can change over time. An emergency can crop up in ANY job. Granted, it's unlikely that any 'personal care' will be required in my job, but I once went to pick DS up from his job at the cinema and someone had thrown up all over the gents toilets! Whoever cleared that up, I doubt it was in their job description ...

You're right to ask the question, but try not to come across as too picky if you really want the job!

EllieA_3

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

Well, I'd expect an administrator to get stuck into anything which needed doing within an office, even if they weren't originally employed for data input but only to answer the phone (which isn't likely to happen).

ANY job requires a certain degree of flexibility. ANY job can change over time. An emergency can crop up in ANY job. Granted, it's unlikely that any 'personal care' will be required in my job, but I once went to pick DS up from his job at the cinema and someone had thrown up all over the gents toilets! Whoever cleared that up, I doubt it was in their job description ...

You're right to ask the question, but try not to come across as too picky if you really want the job!

yup exactly ... today i've had to fix a broken server i don't see that ANYWHERE in my job discription.

I would have loved to have seen my boss's face if i turned around and say .. no it's not in my job role im not doing it.

Actually no i don't.. i think he would have said something like "pack up your desk don't come back"

Blue22

Hi

I agree with everyone else here that Support Worker roles are not for you if are unable to ever deliver personal care. A Support Worker does need to be able to deliver the level of support (and care) that individuals are assessed as needing and although many will not need any personal care, many others will.

Other roles that I suggest would suit you better are things such as;
Advocacy Worker,
Project Worker or Coordinator role for a daytime provision
Personal Advisor or Job Coach for a Welfare to Work provider
Trainer/Support role for a training provider.
Hope that's given you some ideas

loulou123

I work with elderly people with mental health problems as an events coordinator (basicially organising things for them to do and taking them out on trips) and my job 'should' involve no personal care (i work in a care home, where this is the care staffs role.) but sometimes one of the service users will be suddenly sick etc and if i am the nearest person to them i will assist them straight away, equally if someone is needed in an emergency to help with taking someone to the toilet i will step in and help. Or if ive taken one person out on my own and they have a personal care need - i have to help them out.

I personally think that the chances of finding work with elderly mentally ill people, without being required to do some personal care is going to be very very tricky, as what about if you took the person you were supporting out and they became very sick/wet themselves/had a bowel movement whilst it was only you and them? - all of which have happened to me in the past month! Or you are visiting someone in their own home and when you arrive they have wet the bed etc?