The NR workforce

A new apprenticeship has been launched to help change the future of rehabilitation training.  The National Rehabilitation Centre (NRC), in partnership with Birmingham City University, has launched a bespoke apprenticeship course which aims to change the future of rehabilitation training in the country.

While support workers play a key role in care and rehab provision, do they really have the profile and recognition they deserve? Lucy Fallon, co-founder of Ariya Neuro Care, discusses how to build a culture that properly appreciates these professionals and enables them to thrive In a multi-disciplinary team, we all have our role to play. To ensure we deliver the person-centred care we aspire to, a quality partnership must be built so everyone can work together for the good of the client. Within this team is the valuable and actually quite vital role of the support workers. The ones who tie together the rehabilitation, who are the ‘ever presents’ on the ground delivering the round-the-clock care, and really being at the forefront of the whole team effort. But often, the role of the support worker is not valued as it should be. While they are playing a key role in the MDT, their contribution can be seen as ‘less important’ than others. This is not new, and is something that persists - but is something that can be damaging to the support worker, their ability to do their job, to the work of the whole team, and to the rehab a client receives.

While focus on recruitment, training and retention welcomed, regional disparity is not addressed

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Study of frontline medics shows reduction in mental health stress

Here, a clinical support worker who works on a stroke ward shares their story of the true reality of working on a stroke ward in 2023, including their thoughts on the recruitment process, as well as funding and feeling undervalued. It was never my intention to go into the care sector, and not something I [...]

Healthcare professionals see reduction in symptoms of depression and anxiety as a result, study finds