2020 what a year! Who’d have thought we’d be here, Summer parties and fun galore, Instead we’re working dusk till dawn! I can’t complain, I love my job! The people we serve are so much fun, The job we do is so much more, Than personal care and feeding galore, It’s the little laughs and…

The feeling you get when your heart sinks “from Monday managers will be working from home” How, Why, No, that’s not fair What am I going to tell the staff…all thoughts going through my head. I didn’t sleep that night running over in my mind what and how I was going to inform the staff…

Three months ago I started working at ubu. I have not had the opportunity to meet the people we serve but everyday things are getting clearer as I go on. Since I started at ubu a lot has happened in a matter of days. Everyone was doing their job with no idea that in the…

I was talking to my mam the other week, she was telling me that when you buy seaweed in an restaurant I need to check that its real and not deep fried cabbage, that’s my mam always coming out with random things. I don’t know how we got onto the topic of itchy skin, my…

I understand corona virus and do understand the steps that were taken to shut the country down we need to keep everyone safe and well but most importantly we need to stop putting more pressure on the NHS and carers. I was shocked and horrified when I heard on the news that there was a…

Well where to start. I started with UBU only at the end of February, so I had just finished my induction before lockdown commenced and I was asked to work from home. At the same time schools closed meaning I became a teacher to a 13-year-old boy. I don’t know if you have teenage boys…

Everyone’s world has been turned upside down and we have had to learn to adapt to a new way of life in the past 7+ weeks My household like many others has increased due to my husband being furloughed and boys being home from university I found this difficult in the beginning not being able…

When quarantine was announced like everyone, we had our plans but unfortunately for us life had other ideas. Overnight our child care went from five days a week to none due to the closing of our nursery for all including key workers children, with both me and my partner been classed as key workers this…

This is the day this awful virus took our beautiful-Crazy-Lovely Mum she died after battling this for 8 days. The most heartbreaking thing was I could not be there to hold her hand give her a kiss and say Goodbye. Then not being able to see my lovely sisters to be there to hug and…

When reflecting on the last few weeks of lock down I have had many ups and downs. Mainly missing my family, friends and work colleagues and a massive change in my working day. I do realise we all have to keep safe and look after ourselves as well as being mindful of others that we…

I would like to share my experience of remote working. At first I found really quite difficult, I felt very isolated and disconnected from my teams and felt I wasn’t able to do my job properly working from home. I spent time familiarising myself with Microsoft Teams and Zoom and helped enablers, people we serve…

I have lost count how many days, weeks, hours we have now been in lock down. When this first Happened I found it hard i couldn’t just drop by my parents house and see how they are, I couldn’t go in to my sisters houses and play with my nieces or nephews or cuddle them…