Care Assistant

[Eastender]

I am a Care Assistant at a home. Where I work the manager seems to be putting more and more Domestic Chores for us to do. I have never received a cotract or Job Decription for the post. I think the manager is being unfair, my Job is Carer not Domestic. May I add they do have a Domestic but she is training to do caring, so in the mornings up to around 10am she is helping out getting the residents into Breakfast. Do you think I am over reacting? or should I kick up a fuss?. I'm getting really fed up with it. Thanks

[bednobs]

a job description/contract probably wouldn't help. Most contracts after listing the duties say something along the lines of "and anything else the the manager sees fit for you to do" (better worded than that but thats the gist) You could approach your manager but again i suspect there will be other people willing to your job. So either you'll have to put up with it or leave

[Scylax]

It is very difficult to specify job demarcation lines
for a carer, since domestic duties are involved in
the caring process ~ ask any housewife and mother.

Domestic work is not at all dishonourable. Virtually
every State Registered Nurse has done her share of it,
particularly before the Domestics carved a
'professional' niche for themselves.

Suggest that you thank your lucky stars that you don't
have to do some of the really obnoxious jobs that
a SRN is obliged to perform in the name of care.

[william c]

When you are working in care you are caring for the whole person including their environment. The best way to view any of the tasks you have to do is ask yourself "how would that feel if that was me?". So how would you feel if you were assisted to wash and dress then had to sit in a dirty, untidy environment. Also it seems that the manager might be trying to lessen your workload by training the domestic staff to complete care tasks therefore she is having less time to complete her own tasks so will need help. I do not think that you are over reacting just not understanding the "wider picture" of care.