| Comment | I worked in care for a huge portion of my life before a pretty significant career change and I sometimes find this viewpoint harmful to the industry. It is actually a job at the end of the day. You should not be expected to forgo proper pay/conditions and commit huge volumes of emotional labour as part of your job under the auspicious of needing to be a caring person to take the job.
If you are personable and professional you should be absolutely fine in a care position. This expectation that you need to be willing to commit a whole bunch of unpaid emotional labour as part of this role is keeping the industry down.
There are an estimated 20,000 vacant care jobs in Scotland alone. 75% of care homes have chronically unfilled posts. If we expect every single employee to go beyond just being professional into being a saint capable of immense self-sacrifice we are never going to fill even a fraction of these posts. |
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