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I enjoy working as a care worker.
I wanted to do something that had
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value and meaning, to have
a positive impact in people's lives.
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My name is Mark Griffiths and I work for
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Pineshields Health & Social Care Services.
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What brought me to this role was
two or three years ago,
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I was a flight attendant for thirty-one years,
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and I was looking for something
a little bit different, bit of a challenge.
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My biggest concern for changing my career
was that I was a fifty-nine year old male
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with no experience in health and social care.
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I knew I had some really
good transferrable skills.
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I knew that I could do this role.
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You get shadowed when you first start,
you have an induction process.
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The management particularly
have been very supportive.
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I tend to work with children from as young
as eight years of age to adults.
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I think the eldest one is probably
about hundred and two years of age.
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I complete certain tasks, things like making
breakfast to personal care.
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You're helping people and you're helping your
community and I get a lot of pleasure from that.
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It's something I wish I had started years ago.
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It's a great career.
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You get a sense of pride
and purpose and meaning,
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and this is why I enjoy doing it.