ASC create special video to say ‘thank you’ to key workers
Service users and staff from specialist care unit, ASC, have created a brilliant video to say ‘thank you’ to key workers for all their amazing work over the past four …
Balhousie Care Group marks International Nurses Day with inspiring stories from their Everyday Heroes
To honour the work of nurses the world over, International Nurses Day is celebrated every year on May 12th, Florence Nightingale’s birthday. To mark this special day, three nurses from …
Daily walks ‘around the block’ enjoyed at ASC
Due to the social distancing, service users at ASC are now going out for walks ‘around the block’. This is completed once a day and is great exercise for the service …
Singing Chris continues to spread musical joy at ASC
Chris White, a talented local singer and guitarist, made a visit to our ASC facility in Balbeggie where he sang a range of tunes to the service users and staff.
Chris …
‘I didn’t expect to be such a big part of their lives’
The challenges, the inspiration, the camaraderie of staff – they’re all reasons Liam Thomson loves his job as a support worker at ASC.
Bonds are formed, he says, both with the …
‘Working here has changed my life’
When Kirsti Bonthrone answered a job advert on indeed.co.uk for a support worker at ASC, little did she know she would find her vocation.
Kirsti had wanted to go into social …
‘More than anything it’s just really fun.’
Ask Lorianne Garrow why she does what she does – providing support to adults in care – and she says simply: “Because they deserve it.”
From taking them shopping to accompanying …
‘It’s so rewarding – you build a real rapport with residents’
Stephanie Clark applied for the job of support worker at ASC because she was getting tired of the cleaning shifts she was doing at a local shop. Initially she worked …
‘Turning around someone’s mood is a good feeling.’
Shaun Rosling is keeping it in the family with his job as senior support worker at ASC, the speciality services arm of Balhousie Health Care.
Shaun’s brother was also a support …
‘For a nurse there is so much more opportunity for progression’
Mairead O’Connor learned from an early age to socialise with people with learning disabilities just like she would anyone else. Her mother was a learning disabilities nurse so she grew …
