This particular blog will be about my searches for a new position within the care sector in England. I am currently very unhappy in my present role and I feel that this affecting the way in which I ensure that care of the highest level is delivered by staff I manage, it also doesn't help when the backing from head office is at best patchy and lacking in knowledge.
So I took up a position as care manager on 2nd January 2008, what a mistake, but no one else to blame, only me. I was or infact had, turned down the position I had been offered, something didn't feel right. I got persuaded to visit the home where I was met by the then Care Services Manager who spent 4 hours persuading me that I was made for the home and that the home was running so smoothly that I would just be able to slide in.
What a smooth talker this Care Services Manager was. I took the job and on my first day the warning bells started to ring faintly in the back of my head. The Care Services Manager herself was off on long term sick with stress, she had fallen out with the Chief Executive Officer of the company to boot as well.
So as a result of this I had no induction into the company I was working for, and when I started to look beneath the surface, the home and indeed the company were actually under functioning at a level I couldn't believe. What had I fallen into? Trepedation started from day one, and to top it off I had a smug wife at home who looked at me smiled and said, 'I told you so, I told not to take that job, you were better off where you were', thanks babe, but it was what I deserved.
To be continued...............................
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So I took up a position as care manager on 2nd January 2008, what a mistake, but no one else to blame, only me. I was or infact had, turned down the position I had been offered, something didn't feel right. I got persuaded to visit the home where I was met by the then Care Services Manager who spent 4 hours persuading me that I was made for the home and that the home was running so smoothly that I would just be able to slide in.
What a smooth talker this Care Services Manager was. I took the job and on my first day the warning bells started to ring faintly in the back of my head. The Care Services Manager herself was off on long term sick with stress, she had fallen out with the Chief Executive Officer of the company to boot as well.
So as a result of this I had no induction into the company I was working for, and when I started to look beneath the surface, the home and indeed the company were actually under functioning at a level I couldn't believe. What had I fallen into? Trepedation started from day one, and to top it off I had a smug wife at home who looked at me smiled and said, 'I told you so, I told not to take that job, you were better off where you were', thanks babe, but it was what I deserved.
To be continued...............................
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