There's never been an expectation of vaccination in care homes, you could get them as a care worker, if you paid for them. It's only in recent years I've been offered a flu vaccine for example, but before that if you wanted it, you paid for it, because the NHS and care providers didn't see it worthy of spending money on.
It's never even been mentioned in the care jobs I've applied for, it has just not been a 'thing' for care staff as it is for nurses for example.
We have limited training around infection control, I am currently doing an industry standard qualification that was 'written' before covid (postponed due to the demands of work during the pandemic) and it's not even a module, so many care workers probably aren't even aware of any in depth associated risks (covid aside), so it's not a case of just adding another one for care workers, this is a whole new expectation, in a non professional, low paid and low status job, introduced overnight.
I'd support a Vaccination program for care workers, but not one that starts all of a sudden, with a very new vaccine, and only alongside other measures of infection control like proper equipment, adequate PPE - and outside of a pandemic too, and better training than a distance learning course once in a blue moon, I still haven't been offered any more infection control training since covid, other than a few more posters up around the building, surely that should be a priority?
We were given advice on how to use PPE correctly etc from the local council, once, since covid started, and when it started our stash of PPE was depleted within days, as much as gloves that thin they break putting them on, and I've seen thicker bin liners than the plastic pinnys we had, will protect anyone.
None of these things seem to be addressed, and just a frenzy of people slating care workers who haven't had the vaccine, after 18 months of being thrown to the wolves.