JOB VACANCY

Qualifications

No formal qualifications required.
The successful applicant will have the ability to work long hours, up to 24 hours per day.
The applicant will be required to carry out tasks that normally require at least two workers to do.
The applicant will have to be able to work in a very stressful environment.
The applicant will start immediately and learn on the job with no help or instruction.

Pay and Conditions

21 pence per hour with no overtime or shift premiums.
No holidays.
No days off.
No sick pay as working through periods of sickness is required.
No occupational pension scheme.
Retirement and resignation is not permitted.
All out of pocket expenses to be paid by the applicant.
There will be no prospects of promotion.
Social life of successful applicant will cease during the normal working week (7 days).
Pay and conditions not negotiable.

Please Note
Any applicant wishing to die will be required to give as much notice as possible to help social services to prepare the team that will be required to try and replace you.

THE SUCCESSFUL APPLICANT WILL THEN BECOME A PARENT/CARERS OF A PERSON WITH A LEARNING DISABILITY.

devised by Sheffield Family Carers

The term 'carer' is a relatively new category and lacks clarity. No wonder many people are confused about who it precisely refers to. No wonder many people find it hard to see themselves as 'carers'.

The Carers' lobby has been slowly emerging over the last 20 years, when it came to be recognised that there were more people caring for relatives at home than there were mothers staying at home looking after small children.

For the majority of old and vulnerable, sick or disabled people 'community care' actually means care and support from their nearest and dearest. (Usually, but not always, family members). It has been suggested that these carers save the public purse billions of pounds a year and the community care system would literally fall apart if all the unpaid carers stopped caring.

The Community Care legislation of the 1990's, heralded by the White Paper 'Caring for people', recognised the invaluable role played by informal carers. It had as one of its key objectives a commitment;

"To ensure that service providers make practical support for carers a 'high priority' and that assessment of care needs should always take into account the needs of caring family, friends and neighbours."

Yet, despite the growing awareness of the contribution of this army of unpaid carers, it was not until 1995 that they had any specific rights of their own in law.