Sunday, 18 January 2009

Agency staff

For the past week or two weeks [can't remember which,short term memory challenged],am have been getting used to a new agency waking night staff [waking night is someone who has to stay awake at night],they're not here for everyone else so they have to wake the sleepin staff up if they want something.
She's from the cheapest possible agency called Primetime,doesn't take much to work out why the council always use them.
Am supposed to have council staff at night but there's a long term shortage of them,so they get the worst agency around to be waking night instead.

One of the two waking night staff left suddenly,with no warning causing a lot of meltdowns,a pile of smashed glass all over bedroom and several smashed draws.
She later said her mum had been looking after her baby for her in london,and her mum got ill meaning she couldn't look after the baby anymore-not sure how the baby got up to Manchester,can babies fit in the post box?
And the first night the new staff came,am had ran off,didn't realise had very little clothing on,ran through many twisting alley ways and got to usual place-a childs park,like to sit up on this covered climbing frame slide thing.

The police eventually caught up and took am home,was told had hypothermia-had not realised because do not feel the cold-ice had been forming on face and arms/feet.
The evening staffs had stayed on to look after downstairs unit,whilst the sleep in night staff stayed with am to warm body up slowly and change am.
She then left to go to sleep when night meds had kicked in and settled am down,and new night staff lady stayed.

Am still having problems with the new night staff lady,but am not running off from her which is good.
Am find with each new night staff accepting them gets worse because they always leave with no warning,or say they're going on holiday back to their country but don't come back.

Am also cannot understand most agency night staff as they're all from other countries and have strong accents,don't use the language am understand and don't recognise makaton-some of them have thought am was playing charades even though they are told am a makaton user in the communication passport they are required to read by managers? was asked 'is it a film?' when signing for drink!

Sometimes,am have thought fuck this,grabbed the keys off staff and got in the cubord to get a can of drink out [they lock away cans to stop am cutting through self with the metal off them],but then get into trouble off the manager for grabbing off staff.

Can't wait till move to NAS residential care,no more agency.