Hi everyone,
I am a carer in a 60 bed residential home, the layout of our building is an L shape, we currently have 54 residents who have a form of dementia. Our current staffing levels are 3 carers and 1 senior and 1 night manager, however our night manager only administers medication and does laundry.
I'm concerned that we do not have enough members of staff, as we are a 3 floored home and have several patients who are 'doubles' we barely have any time to spend with the residents and on a good night were still helping people get to bed around midnight, on a bad night it can be as late as 2am! We have mentioned this to our home manager but she thinks we are doing fine. As carers we are all worried that we are not meeting all the needs of our residents.
Our home manager calls our top floor residential, which is untrue, we have many dementia residents on that floor as we do the ground so she only allocates 1 member of staff to that floor, every night we are abused verbally and physically.
Do you think we have enough staff? Or should we really be having this conversation again with the manager and possibly someone from CQC
Many thanks x
I am a carer in a 60 bed residential home, the layout of our building is an L shape, we currently have 54 residents who have a form of dementia. Our current staffing levels are 3 carers and 1 senior and 1 night manager, however our night manager only administers medication and does laundry.
I'm concerned that we do not have enough members of staff, as we are a 3 floored home and have several patients who are 'doubles' we barely have any time to spend with the residents and on a good night were still helping people get to bed around midnight, on a bad night it can be as late as 2am! We have mentioned this to our home manager but she thinks we are doing fine. As carers we are all worried that we are not meeting all the needs of our residents.
Our home manager calls our top floor residential, which is untrue, we have many dementia residents on that floor as we do the ground so she only allocates 1 member of staff to that floor, every night we are abused verbally and physically.
Do you think we have enough staff? Or should we really be having this conversation again with the manager and possibly someone from CQC
Many thanks x