The Light News – July 24

MANCHESTER, STOCKPORT, July 27, 2024 – HSL Care news for the month of July 2024. Bringing you the latest insights into home care in Manchester and Stockport. This months features include:

• The Recruitment Challenge
• Work-Life Balance – The Key
• HSL Care News: Recruitment
• Staff Profile: Rizwan Saleem- Senior Care Assistant

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tHE RECRUITMENT CHALLENGE

Care workers play a vital role in delivering essential services to vulnerable clients, including the elderly.

Finding new carers and retaining staff has become increasingly important since lockdown. Having a high staff turnover is more likely to impact on both the quality and consistency of client care. So, how do agencies reduce attrition and improve retention?

Care jobs are emotionally demanding, so having effective communication and regular staff meetings help carers share their issues and find support from their colleagues. Paying a real Living Wage that reflects the value and demands of care work also makes a significant difference.

Focusing on career advancement, with a positive training and development plan, helps inspire staff looking to climb the career ladder. Recognising the importance of life outside of work is paramount as is flexibility – to maintain a healthy work-life balance. This in turn improves staff retention.

In summary, growing and retaining quality staff in the care sector is possible provided that you truly value your workforce; offering a fair ‘living wage’, encouraging career development, and promoting a healthy work-life balance.

It’s about fostering a workplace culture that feels more like a supportive staff community than another workplace.

This is how HSL Care continues drives client-care improvement – making sure that staff feel respected and valued every day.

HSL Care NEWs: recruitment

HSL Care continues to grow through meeting the increasing demands of new clients looking for a comprehensive range of domiciliary care, delivered by a reliable, local Care Agency. Being Stockport-based means new clients can receive care and support quickly.

WORK LIFE BALANCE – THE KEY

The UK economic shift has seen a large number of public sector workers take industrial action over pay and conditions. The impact of energy and food costs in particular has hit the lowest paid workers hardest, with many carers across the country struggling to heat their homes and feed families, at what is traditionally a celebratory time of the year.  The home care sector remains particularly affected. 

EMPLOYEE FOCUS

RIZWAN SALEEM, Senior Care Assistant:

Rizwan is a real family man and splits his time between being a professional carer and holding a Management role at another company. He’s really into his football, – an avid League Arsenal fan and loves his cars – owning a 3-Series BMW. Rizwan’s best quality is how he is so natural at putting everyone at ease, especially clients who enjoy their time with him.