{"id":4948,"date":"2022-08-30T10:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-30T10:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crossroadscarerk.org\/?p=4948"},"modified":"2023-06-30T13:57:03","modified_gmt":"2023-06-30T13:57:03","slug":"care-work-after-retirement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/care-work-after-retirement\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Work After Retirement\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"

Care Support Workers at Crossroads Care come from all walks of life \u2013 from\u00a0college\u00a0leavers starting\u00a0out, parents wanting to work\u00a0part-time while raising a family,\u00a0to people who have taken early retirement. What they all have in common though is\u00a0a passion for people, caring and their local community.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Here, Fiona Mitchell talks to Veronica, 74, who joined the charity\u00a0over\u00a010 years ago after retirement<\/strong><\/p>\n

Veronica\u00a0supports Carers and the people they care for in their own home, providing them with a vital break from their caring role, as well as working at one of Crossroads\u2019 many outreach community-based projects \u2014 the Caring Caf\u00e9 in Sheen.\u00a0The role has not only enabled Veronica to earn extra money to top up her pension, but is fun too.<\/p>\n

\"\"Veronica\u2019s career in care spans more than 55 years. Initially a nurse, she became a manager of care homes, then a social worker, and she has been able to put her vast knowledge and experience to good use at Crossroads Care.<\/p>\n

Veronica says: \u2018It was either nursing or hairdressing when I left school, and it wasn\u2019t going to be hairdressing because I couldn\u2019t face washing all that hair! It\u2019s funny when you consider that doing people\u2019s hair has been part of my career in caring. Just brushing someone\u2019s hair or popping on a bit of lippy can make a person feel so much better.<\/p>\n

\u2018I wasn\u2019t ready to put my feet up after retiring. I wanted to be of help, to have that sense of purpose. This job energises me \u2013 I meet such wonderful people.<\/p>\n

\u2018As well as making lunch or doing ironing, there\u2019s lots of chatting involved and humour too. If someone\u2019s in a grump and doesn\u2019t want me there, I\u2019m firm but kind. One of my clients even called me Mrs Bossy Boots once. It\u2019s about building friendships with people and giving them dignity.<\/p>\n

\u2018I love working with older people. They don\u2019t just sit in chairs, they have whole life stories. A colleague once said that the many reports I\u2019ve written about clients read like Catherine Cookson novels.<\/p>\n

\u2018I work part-time and Crossroads are so flexible about my working hours, and are such a lovely team.\u00a0I can\u2019t ever see a day when I\u2019ll stop doing this job.\u2019<\/p>\n

We\u2019re looking for\u00a0more\u00a0special people\u00a0like Veronica\u00a0to join our team, who want the job satisfaction of making a real difference to the lives of Carers and the people they care for.<\/p>\n

To find out more about becoming a Care Support Worker with Crossroads Care, visit\u00a0https:\/\/www.crossroadscarerk.org\/join-us\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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Care Support Workers at Crossroads Care come from all walks of life \u2013 from\u00a0college\u00a0leavers starting\u00a0out, parents wanting to work\u00a0part-time while raising a family,\u00a0to people who have taken early retirement. What they all have in common though is\u00a0a passion for people, caring and their local community. Here, Fiona Mitchell talks to Veronica, 74, who joined the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":88901,"featured_media":5320,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[39,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-job-opportunities","category-our-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/88901"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4948"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1089569,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4948\/revisions\/1089569"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crossroadscarerk.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}