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The pressure has increased on our front-line healthcare workers, especially as a result of COVID-19. Many relaxation techniques have long been prescribed as an effective way to find and release feelings of being tense, having anxiety, and fear.

Below are some facts that are outlined which are a range of rapid relaxation techniques that can be put into practice in the workplace or when you are at home. This may vary for different individuals.

Whole Body Tension:

Tensing everything in your body and holding that tension is a good way to relieve a lot of pressure in your body. Holding your tension for as long as you can and then slowly release the tension gradually and feel it leave your body. Repeating this 3 times can help with the ease of the stress in your body and will make you feel much lighter and freer.

Imagining air as a cloud

Opening your imagination and focusing on your breathing. When your breathing becomes regular, you’ll automatically become calm, imagine that the air you are breathing is coming to you directly from a cloud and in the form as a cloud, this will fill you and then empty you as you release, in some cases, you can imagine the cloud to be a specific color to help ease the tension and keep you relaxed.

Picking a Spot:

When your head is level and your body is relaxed, pick a spot your eyes can focus on (something in your sight) when you are ready count five breaths backward, when taking each breath close your eyes gradually. Concentrate on each breath, when you get to one, your eyes should be fully closed focusing on the feelings of being relaced and tension free.

Counting 10 breaths backwords

Allow yourself to feel passive, allow yourself to feel indifferent, counting each breath in a slow manor from 10 all the way down to 1. With each count, allow yourself to feel heavier each time and relaxed. When you are exhaling, allow all the tension to release, leaving your body nice and relaxed and tension free.

Using the 5-4-3-2-1 technique

Using the 5-4-3-2-1 technique is a proven technique to relieve yourself from tension. You will purposefully take in the details from your surroundings utilizing each one of your senses. Striving to notice the smaller details that your mind would usually blank out for example the distant sounds around you or the texture of an ordinary object. This technique is best used when you have more time on your hands as it’s not the quickest of techniques.

5. What are the things you can see? (5 things)
4. What are the things you can feel? (4 things)
3. What are the things you can hear? (3 things)
2. What are the things you can smell? (2 things)
1. What is the thing you can taste? (1 thing)

At Secure Healthcare Solutions we believe that a happy and relaxed workforce who are tension-free is the most adequate way to be working. Will make your work-like balance a lot easier. We take pride in our carers and nurses who work with us.

To join the Secure Healthcare family, click the link below to find out what positions we have available:
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Secure Healthcare Solutions offers a variety amount of support in our Domiciliary Care Department. These calls vary from single care calls to double care calls. Secure Healthcare Solutions provides a service of care to Adults and Children with a variety of needs.

Some our Domiciliary services we provide are supporting children in the process of going to school. Our carers provide a service where they start getting the users ready for their journeys and provide a transport for them to go to their school.

Our Domiciliary carer services also provide a community service where Secure Healthcare Solutions help children with conditions where they don’t have much confidence of going out in the community, this is where we come in, we would provide the right amount of care and progress to get them back out so they can enjoy their lives like their peers.

The advantages of Domiciliary care:

– Allows your loved ones to retain their independence
– Stability
– Flexible
– Affordable
– One-on-one care
– Sharing your personal space

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Secure Healthcare Solutions

Why join our Domiciliary care department:
We have rewarding Community care jobs available. We have packages in:
– Cannock
– Walsall
– Wolverhampton
– Dudley

Working with Secure Healthcare Solutions you will be providing a service of care to elderly clients who would require personal care and assistance with the administration of their medication. Secure Healthcare Solutions also has clients with who have Dementia, where they would provide care for a few hours of the day whilst family are away to come in and support with their day-to-day activities such as preparing their foods and making sure they are okay in the environment they are in.

Rehabilitation support is also a service of care our Domiciliary care department provide. This is to support our service users with the right amount of care to help our service users get back, keep, or to improve abilities that you need for day-to-day life activities.

According to the World Health Organization, there are more than 50% of people do not receive the rehabilitation services they require. Rehabilitation services amongst the health services most severely disrupted by the COVID-19 pandemic.

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We also provide a service of care called Respite Care. Respite care provides a short-term relief for care givers. It can be arranged for just an afternoon for a few days or even a few weeks. Our Domiciliary care team find the right carers for a few hours of the day to provide a in home service for your loved ones.

Secure Healthcare Solution’s Domiciliary care department also provide a Domestic service where our team community carers will come out and help preparation of the house such as cleaning and preparation of any food. This is mainly for our elderly patients who require the support. Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we ask that we let our family take care of yours. To Join our team, click on the link below for many more positions we have or request a call back from our team: CLICK HERE

In the UK there is over 669,854 registered Nurses in the UK and the government has plans to recruit over 50,000 Nurses by 2025, click here to find out more. With an ageing population and the Covid 19 pandemic, there has been an increased need for healthcare workers. With an increased demand for Nurses, there is a lot of nurse jobs in the West Midlands, there is great opportunities to progress your career, which may be to become a specialist Nurse and increase your income.

Being part of a Nursing agency and working for NHS, as a nurse has similarities and differences, also by working for a nursing agency, you are entitled to better benefits compared to working directly for the NHS in a hospital setting.

The five main benefits of a Nursing agency include:

Increased pay rate
Agency work is much better paid, your hourly rate is significantly higher and you could be working less hours a week and get paid much higher than working directly for the NHS. As there is a high demand for nurses, you could also increase your pay by picking up extra shifts. Adzuna outlines that ‘the average agency nurse salary is £46,000, compared to the average Nurse salary of £36,000’.

Flexible working hours and shifts
With agency nursing, you can choose and pick shifts when you want to work. You may choose to work for a few days and relax the other days. There is a lot more flexibility with agency nursing, compared to working directly for the NHS. We understand that people have busy lifestyles which is why arranging shifts around your availability is important to allow you to have a balanced lifestyle.

Career development
By working in a nursing agency, you have access to a variety of environments to work in. This is great for you to build your experience and develop your CV, as you develop a variety of skills and experience to apply. For example, you could be working in a care home/residential home setting, hospital or home care environment.

Support from your agency
Secure healthcare offers 24/7 around the clock support for our staff, we provide on-going training and qualifications to ensure our staff feel comfortable to provide tailored support and care to our service users. We also encourage our nurses to undertake qualifications and training with us to allow them to become specialist nurses and progress careers.

Accepting shifts is easy
Through our dedicated booking app, selecting shifts is straight forward and simple. For our healthcare team, we have an app which allows our healthcare staff to select shifts around their availability. You can pick up as many shifts as you want.

We are nursing agency in Wolverhampton and we have many registered nurse jobs across the Midlands and Staffordshire, offering flexible shifts to suit your availability and we offer high rates of pay. Check out our job search tool to discover roles local to you or contact our recruitment team on 0121 285 9449 to find out more about our nurse roles and secure a role with us today. We have a team of Specialist Nurses and we are continuously looking to grow our team by working with you.

In 2020, home care nursing was the second fastest growing job sector in the UK, with an increase of over 150%, according to data published by Indeed. 7 out of the top 10 fastest growing jobs are in the healthcare sector.

Although there are nurse staffing shortages, and with the COVID 19 pandemic, there has been an increased need for Nurses, this highlights that there are opportunities for Nurses to explore career options and to discover new nursing roles. With an increase for the number of home care jobs, we understand that it is important to educate nurses to adapt and make moves from a hospital environment to home care.

71% of people that require care and support, prefer to remain in their own home, as they age. We live in an ageing population and the number of individuals requiring care and support continues to increase. With a growing need of individuals preferring home care close to their loved ones and around their loved ones, there is a growing need for Nurses to work within a home care setting.

For a Nurse job, a nurse degree will be required. Individuals will start nursing careers as registered general nurses and have opportunities to progress careers to become specialist nurses.

For a Nursing Degree, there is grants available to receive £5,000 funded by the government to support with university fees. Click here to find out more.

Nurses.co.uk outlines that there are over 669,854 registered Nurses in the UK and a nursing degree is considered to be the most employable in the UK, 94% of graduates discover a job within 6 months of finishing their degree. When starting your career within the nursing industry, it is a job for life and it has excellent career progression opportunities, depending on your willingness to gain qualifications and experience.

Some of the major benefits of working as a Nurse at Secure Healthcare Solutions within a home care environment include:
– Rewarding salaries, higher compared to RGN roles in hospitals
– Flexible shifts around your availability
– Healthier relationships with service users

Within the UK, there is various different types of Nurses in the UK. A RGN is the most common type of Nurse in the UK. This is the best way to start your Nursing profession, after getting your Nursing licence. Within the homecare environment, Nurses will work closely with healthcare staff, CCG’s and doctors to ensure quality care and support has been provided. You then have opportunities to progress to become RNLD or RMN nurses, where qualifications and training will be required.

Some of the key responsibilities of a Nurse include:

Assisting in the safe ordering of medicines, storing and administering.
Completing nurse notes accurately, ensuring all notes are up to date.
Assessing care needs and ensuring care plans and records are assessed, up to date and accurate.
Visit the client daily to assess their needs, always seeking to improve care delivered to clients.
Ensure that each clients dignity is respected and client information is kept confidential.
Communicating with care home staff and nurses to share information about the patients care needs.
Attend and communicate in meetings if required, sharing important information.
Completing any other duties required by the care manager, senior nurse or doctors to meet the changing needs of the business.
As a healthcare agency, we are hiring registered nurses, RMN’s and RNLD nurses within the West Midlands and Staffordshire for the NHS, hospitals, care homes and for home care. Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we provide our Nurses free training to allow them to become specialist Nurses and for career progression. Join our team of valued Nurses, where we offer great rewarding salaries and benefits.

Find out more about Nursing jobs in the West Midlands and Staffordshire, using our job search tool, or contact us on 0121 285 9449.

Complex carers are a very important part of the front-line team to ensure quality care and support is provided to those that require it. Providing care and support to our service users requires a lot of hard work and is one of the most difficult occupations. We highly appreciate those that dedicate their lives to helping others.

Kabriya is one of our star complex care workers, who has been providing care for over 10 years. She started her journey as a Domiciliary carer in Wolverhampton and through training and development at Secure Healthcare has progressed her career to become a complex carer. Below in summary Kabriya will be outlining the day in the life of a carer.

By working as a complex carer, within a homecare environment, every day is different and it is more than just a job. You have to be passionate about providing healthcare, you need to be a hard willing worker. For me it is about building strong relationships with the service users and feeling part of a new family. I strive to make a real positive difference to our service users lives, every single day.

Being a complex carer, requires a strong character, you have to remain professional and positive, even though you may be experiencing personal issues. This is the life of a carer.

You may be required to provide care and support during the day or nights. While providing homecare for an individual there will be day to day responsibilities such as supporting service users with baths and showers, dressing, assisting with food, medications, housework movement around the house and much more. There are new challenges that can arise while providing care and support and it is important
that you handle this in a calm and safe manner.

Throughout my job I have to assess the needs of our service users to ensure tailored quality personal home care is provided.

Listening to people is important, it is vital that I communicate with service users, family members of those that I am providing care for and also with healthcare professionals to ensure that quality care and support is provided.

With the Covid 19 pandemic, it is also important that I use appropriate PPE to protect myself and others from Covid 19. This is done by wearing gloves, aprons, using face masks and disinfecting surfaces when necessary.

It is important that you follow care plans devised, by collaboratively working with case managers to ensure that tailored care and support is provided. It is also important to document everything, so care plans can be adjusted.

I would say that individuals should be passionate about providing care, hardworking and need to have a strong character.

Looking at Kabriya’s experience of working with us as a healthcare worker, if you think that providing care is for you, then feel free to check out the latest opportunities we have available in the West Midlands & Staffordshire and the North, click here to use job search tool to discover roles local to you or contact us on 0121 285 9449 to find out more.

There is over 40 million people that have received their first dose of COVID-19 vaccine in the UK. Approximately 27 million people have received both doses to provide maximum protection and here at Secure Healthcare Solutions we highly encourage individuals to come forward to be vaccinated to help protect against the threat of the new variants.

Public Health England outlines that 2 doses of the COVID-19 vaccine are highly effective against the (Delta) variant, identified in India. This reduces the risk of hospitalisation and death, which prevents the NHS hospitals being overwhelmed and to prevent another lockdown occurring in the UK.

PHE research carried out shows that individuals that received a single dose of Oxford/AstraZeneca vaccine have an 80% lower risk of death, and the second dose provides 85 to 90% protection against COVID-19. Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine provides 80% protection after one dose and 97% after 2 doses.

The UK is one of the leading nations to have vaccinated the population. Over 60% of the population has been vaccinated.
Click here to find out more about the COVID 19 vaccine.

Secure Healthcare Solutions is in the healthcare industry and is a healthcare staffing agency providing quality care and support to service users within care homes, hospitals and for homecare. Our staff members get priority to receive the COVID 19 vaccine and our patients that we care and provide support for have had the priority to receive the COVID 19 vaccine. As the people that we provide care for in the vulnerable category, we highly encourage individuals to take the vaccine.

We provide our service users PPE, including gloves, face masks and sanitiser. Our staff are also provided this too and appropriate PPE clothing to ensure our service users feel comfortable and safe. As a healthcare agency, safety is imperative for us when it comes to COVID 19 and we ensure that we follow all the government guidelines.

Our healthcare staff and patients are regularly tested for COVID 19 through rapid lateral flow home tests kits.

Here at Secure Healthcare Solutions, we understand that there is a lot of negative rumours about the vaccine, whether it is safe and the long-term side effects of the vaccine.

Who should not receive not receive the vaccine?
– Pregnant women
– Children under 16 (Moderna)
– Children under 18 (Astrazeneca/Oxford vaccine & Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine)
– History of allergic reaction (anaphylaxis) to ingredients in the vaccine, if you unsure about this, before being vaccinated, ask members of staff.

Side effects of having the COVID-19 vaccine
There are many side effects of taking the COVID 19 vaccine, that are generally mild and should not last longer than a week.
These include:
– A sore arm, where the needle has been put in
– Fatigue
– Headaches
– Body aches
– Feeling or being sick

If you have any of the symptoms above, it is recommended to take paracetamols

If you want to find out more about how we support our service users and also how we support our staff with COVID 19 to ensure safety and individuals feeling comfortable, then please feel free to call us on 0121 285 9449. We highly encourage all our staff and service users to take the COVID 19 vaccine.