{"id":12453,"date":"2025-03-24T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2025-03-24T14:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/?p=12453"},"modified":"2025-03-28T08:55:42","modified_gmt":"2025-03-28T08:55:42","slug":"a-career-in-care-can-be-fulfilling-and-offers-growth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthnews.ie\/home-care\/a-career-in-care-can-be-fulfilling-and-offers-growth\/","title":{"rendered":"A career in care can be fulfilling and offers growth"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div style=\"background-color:#f2f2f2;color:#32373c\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-profile-box round ab-has-avatar ab-font-size-14 ab-block-profile ab-profile-columns\"><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-avatar-wrap\"><div class=\"ab-profile-image-wrap\"><figure class=\"ab-profile-image-square\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"ab-profile-avatar wp-image-12454\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/03\/24141045\/vicky-1742825445-Daniel-Gizara-Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"\" srcset=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/03\/24141045\/vicky-1742825445-Daniel-Gizara-Headshot.jpg 400w, https:\/\/s3.eu-north-1.amazonaws.com\/cdn-site.mediaplanet.com\/app\/uploads\/sites\/94\/2025\/03\/24141045\/vicky-1742825445-Daniel-Gizara-Headshot-125x125.jpg 125w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 400px) 100vw, 400px\" \/><\/figure><\/div><\/div><div class=\"ab-profile-column ab-profile-content-wrap\"><h2 class=\"ab-profile-name\" style=\"color:#32373c\">Daniel Gizara<\/h2><p class=\"ab-profile-title\" style=\"color:#32373c\">People Business Partner, Bluebird Care<\/p><div class=\"ab-profile-text\"><\/div><ul class=\"ab-social-links\"><\/ul><\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><em>New job opportunities are opening up across the spectrum as community caring services evolve across Ireland.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>Creating a supportive network for carers is crucial in ensuring personnel can deliver the best care to families in the community. While an important aspect of that is selecting people with the right aptitude and skills, offering training and additional support to underpin that is invaluable.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-rewarding-and-challenging-roles\"><strong>Rewarding and challenging roles<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluebird Care delivers care to families and communities across southern Ireland, ranging from meeting complex medical needs to offering to support people with fundamental care tasks like personal care, dressing or assistance in taking medication.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Daniel Gizara, People Business Partner, providing HR support to the franchise network, highlights the education and qualifications that potential recruits would require. \u201cWe want people to have a genuine passion for the care of others,\u201d he says. \u201cThey need compassion and the ability to listen, and build a good relationship (rapport) with clients.; and patience is an important trait.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The preference is for applicants to have QQI (Quality and Qualifications Ireland) level 5 in healthcare, with care skills and care of the older person being two important modules. However, if people do not have that, there are opportunities for applicants to train and achieve the skills. \u201cThe first thing to know is this challenging role can be highly rewarding,\u201d he adds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>The first thing to know is that it is a <br>very rewarding but challenging role.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-job-opportunities-available\"><strong>Job opportunities available<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Bluebird Care highlights job opportunities on the career section of its website but also posts vacancies on other sites, via social media and online job fairs, office open days and careers events. Personnel are recruited from across the age spectrum from school-leavers inspired to pursue a caring career to career-changers and from different backgrounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>He says: \u201cBluebird Care prides itself on being a premium care provider, but this also extends towards the care and support given to our team of Carers\u201d Competitive pay rates, travelling expenses, training opportunities, loyalty bonuses and a broader \u2013 often tailored \u2013 employee assistance scheme are included. A formal 20-hour induction programme is followed by eight hours shadowing of more experienced personnel. \u201cIf people are interested in a rewarding career as a carer, we\u2019re keen to hear from them,\u201d says Gizara.<\/p>\n\n\n<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><body><div style=\"text-align:center\" class=\"wp-block-atomic-blocks-ab-button ab-block-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bluebirdcare.ie\/\" class=\"ab-button ab-button-shape-rounded ab-button-size-medium fb-pixel\" style=\"color:#ffffff;background-color:#0e1a4c\">Click here to learn more<\/a><\/div>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New job opportunities are opening up across the spectrum as community caring services evolve across Ireland. Creating a supportive network for carers is crucial in ensuring personnel can deliver the best care to families in the community. 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