For Professionals
 Does
your work bring you into contact with unpaid carers?
Whether they are your patients, clients, employees or colleagues,
carers have a tough job and they need support.
Carers
need help in their own right.
If your work brings you into contact with carers, you could
give them, and those they care for, a major boost by sending
them to the Carers’ Resource where we can tell them
about the whole range of support available and how to access
it, from welfare benefits to respite care and from transport
to emotional support.
The additional help may in the long term reduce their dependence
on you. We also provide a tailor-made information service
which you, as a professional working with carers, are encouraged
to use to help you support those you work with.
We have more than ten years’ experience of working
with carers to help find ways to improve their lives and the
lives of those they care for. Please contact
us to find out how the Carers’ Resource
can benefit you in your work.
If you are juggling personal caring responsibilities with
your own paid work, we can offer you sensitive and confidential
support. Please click
here to go to our leisure, learning and
employment page for carers.
Working
with young people
If you are a teacher or if you work with young people in any
capacity, you might be dealing with young carers. They have
very specific needs to help them care whilst still being able
to lead their own lives.
You can access our Children and Families team for advice
on supporting young carers or click
here to see what support we offer young
people with caring responsibilities.
You may also work with young people with special
needs whose parents may need additional support. Find out
how you can help them by calling 01423 500555 or 01756 700888.
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Please,
just listen - Jeana doesn’t
want doctors to breach the confidentiality code –
she just wants them to listen so that they might learn
something about her son, who suffers (along with the
rest of the family) from a psychotic disorder. Click
to view |
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My
Michael - When Michael is due to
be operated on for bowel cancer, none of the medical
staff listen to when Michael and Joan tell them that
an epidural will have no effect due to severe scarring.
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to view
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