What is Social Care? Meet some real social care workers
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Meet some people who are Social Care workers and find out more about their work and backgrounds.
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Naseem Shah - Outreach Worker"I work with disabled Asian women and children and their carers, making contact to ensure they know about the services and benefits that they are entitled to. There are all sorts of differences that can create problems for people and marginalise them - gender, culture, religion, language. My role is to enable women to make informed choices about using services like health care, respite care, day centres and facilities for the disabled living at home. There's a knock-on effect if people don't take up services. It shows up later in ill health for carers, or families not being able to cope any more. I've always wanted to work with people, and the position of Asian women in our society is a real concern for me. I think I get some of that from my Mum who worked with disabled children." Naseem has been involved in various roles in social care and voluntary work since leaving school. These included a period working in residential care, and time spent travelling. Her understanding of languages and different dialects from Asian countries is especially important in establishing relationships with the people she is now working with. She works with a charity - the Asian Disability Network - but has frequent contact with local health and social services. |