Adult services - we are doing our best

[Tryingourbest23]

I am a HCP in health social care, I can t say what field . I am supposed to do part time office hours writing reports. That's what I'm paid doe, I wish. We are killing ourselves i can't say more other than we are drowning - Unpaid overtime- to keep people safe

It's very hard. We are under appreciated

Is anyone else doing far more than their hours and working flat out to recover people and keep them safe from and during Covid times?

I work in a university, training HCPs. The way I view it, we're part of a partnership to keep the NHS running and running well with well trained HCPs with the right attitude.

Everyone in our department is working 60-70 hour weeks, including through their holidays and sickness (including Covid) and has been since March.

We're not frontline but if we don't get students through their training, we won't have any new HCPs coming into the workplace in a few years and we will all be stuffed. Strategically people know this but individual clinical services just see students as an added burden. So we are stuck in the middle.

I overheard a HCP complaining about us last week, saying we were passing the buck by asking if people can have students. I nearly cried. They have no idea what it's been like and continues to be like.

I have been messaging students whilst I've been in hospital, trying to get them through the course. I had to cancel a meeting with a student because I was in an ambulance and they complained, they didn't care why, they were just annoyed that their appointment was cancelled.

We're stuck in the middle but like you OP, the job needs doing and there isn't anyone to pick it up if I'm not there. Ultimately it's patients who will suffer and that's not good enough.

I've worked for thirty years in healthcare, I've never experienced anything like it, our whole department feel like we're stretched to our very limit and on the verge of breaking.

Solidarity, OP. I'm an adults social worker. It is relentless at the moment. I'm a single parent with not much of a support network in this pandemic and riding out the lockdown and the 14 day school bubble isolations whilst keeping my caseload afloat, plus all the extra welfare check allocations, has been grim.

I'm also really struggling with working from home, it was something I used to do occasionally for 'paperwork days', now I am having painful and often confrontational conversations with families in my own home and it feels unsettling and invasive.

Do you have a supportive team and manager? I feel very fortunate that mine are incredible, I work with the most caring and nursing bunch of people, and my manager is genuinely fantastic and doing her best to keep us all sane, alongside my very capable senior pracs. I think I'd have burned out and been in sick leave by this point if it wasn't for that safety net.

I am sure everyone is really doing his/her best. However, my eldest has just moved to supported living and he is not receiving the support he needs. The needs assessments that were supposed to have been put in place and the financial assessments that were also supposed to have been done prior to him leaving residential accommodation, were not carried out and he cannot access his previous residence for groups because Covid 19 restrictions now class him as a separate household.

Added to that, my father in law is still waiting for an operation that has been constantly postponed.

I know there are massive pressures on services, but surely people should not be left unsupported and in pain.

Police custody

Understaffed and rammed with people. Drink drives and domestic assaults mostly.

Have been since begining of lockdown.

So very stressful