Managers Beware of Evil Staff

Try as you might, there is evil in care homes that goes far beyond physical abuse.

I have always made sure that I have been scrupulously fair with staff and have always tried to assist staff and watched their backs, but there is always one who cannot see the good you have done,  and is arrogant enough to  think  that they can get you back,by being the homes unofficial lawyer.

I have one such member of staff who has been extremely conservative with the truth. I know why she has done it, the owner knows why she has done it,  and the irony is that she is lucky to still be employed at the home due to many of the complaints from  seniors and from some other staff about her attitude, but me being me felt I could work with her and teach her.

The owner has always been kept aware of what is happening in the home and the staff and he has on at least one occasion asked me why she was still there, but I wanted to teach her and get her to see how things could be done.

Now I am  left with only 6.5 years left before I  can retire and this 19 year old has decided to make sure I cannot work again. She has worked,  I believe,  in collusion with other staff to make a mistake she and another member of staff made, where I had to pick up the pieces,  into a complaint about my handling of the situation. Yes I was sharp with the resident, but a tough love, type of sharp  where I was trying to motivate her back to her room. Had a wheelchair been used in the instance that she couldn't walk even 15 feet across the dining room, then this incident wouldn't have happened, but she nor the other staff involved have been honest about their involvement, instead choosing to lay all blame on me.

There was no physical abuse, no  verbal abuse, no swearing only a firm sharp  tone to  try and keep this resident on her feet to hopefully get her to her room without incident. I know hand on heart that I have done nothing wrong, but I  feel  I have been set up, and I  get the impression so does my employer.  All my good work over the past 42 years or so is now  under the microscope and I feel gutted.

If I loose my  job I have requested that the owner employ the toughest manager he can find to knock this home back into shape as if not things could go  from  bad to worse.  This member of staff has now had power that she is unready and unable to deal with and this makes her very dangerous in any care environment, she could  destroy everything that has been built  up over the past 2.5 years just for some personal self gratification, not for as she would  have everyone believe because she was concerned or because she thought she was working in the best interest of a resident. After all this is a girl who had no compunction of coming into my office and telling me that she was the best carer at my care home, as I  said arrogant.