We will visit your workplace and talk through the best ways you can support carers in your organisation. We will help you with each of the following steps:
You have provided staff with information about who carers are, the issues they face and support available to them. This information is also included in the induction of all new staff and volunteers throughout the workforce. We will work with you to ensure you have everything you need.
All staff within the organisation are asked at commencement of employment and at annual reviews if they have caring responsibilities that they would like to make the organisation aware of. Although disclosure of caring responsibilities will be encouraged, it must be optional.
As all identified carers within the workforce are offered an individual support plan, we will help you put them in place for your organisation. These plans are to be recorded and reviewed at intervals agreed between the employee and their manager.
We will work with you to ensure your organisation has implemented a standalone ‘Carers Policy’ for staff and a member of management is allocated with the responsibility for updating and implementing the policy.
A member of management within the service is assigned as a ‘Senior Carer Lead,’ responsible for ensuring that carers are considered and championed within the organisation.
It is important that Carers are consulted with and listened to about matters within the workplace that affect them. We will hel pyou to develop the systems that allow this to work. Consultation must be open to all staff and include the option to respond anonymously, to capture carers who have not yet disclosed their caring role.