Corporate Care Guides: How to Show Caring Employees a Path Forward!

Just a moment ago, everything was fine...

Imagine this: The job challenges you in a healthy way, and even when it gets tough sometimes, you are overall satisfied with your position. Your own family, apart from minor squabbles here and there, is a true fountain of harmony. And the lively children keep you on your toes. All the better that your well-protected hobbies provide balance. That's how life can be lived well.

But then, quite suddenly, it starts to happen: Your own parents, now in old age, need more and more attention and support. At first, it was just grocery shopping and occasional cleaning and tidying up at home. But then this: A stroke, for example, changes everything. Your own parent becomes a person in need of care. Now full strength and assistance are required.

From task comes burden. From burden comes overload. And then?

This task can be very demanding for a caregiving family member: Who do I turn to now? Who can help and to what extent? What does home or residential care cost and what does the health insurance cover? How much do I still have to do myself as a caregiver, and how do I balance this workload with my work, family, and personal life? How do I manage to stay healthy and in good spirits through all of this? And given these circumstances, do I still have enough energy to focus on my job?

For caregivers and support personnel, the situation is often exhausting. This makes it all the more important to have a point of contact specifically designed for such cases and that knows how to help with a competent SOS course: company care guides.

Company Care Guides: First Aid with SOS Function

Care guides are individuals in the company who, in addition to their regular position, have received special training on family care and are available as contacts for those affected. They act as a preliminary stage to care counseling and are intended to provide empathetic, initial guidance on what to do next.

At the same time, it is beneficial to be in dialogue with caregiving colleagues from the very beginning to be able to show commitment, thereby providing support and preventing overload. Many caregiving employees are anything but open about their multiple burdens, so as not to give the impression of weakness or anything similar.

Why are care pilots especially valuable for employers?

Care guides are intended to assist caregiving employees. How does this also help the employer? Statistics show that caregiving employees quickly reach their limits and cannot easily manage the multiple demands. What follows is physical absence from work, either in the form of sick leave or even resignations. For companies, this scenario means operational follow-up costs and the laborious search for and training of replacements.

Establishing care guides in the workplace prevents this knockout for both the employee and the company. Additionally, it enhances the image as a family-friendly employer.

The advantages for businesses at a glance:

• Businesses establish a caregiving-sensitive corporate culture.
• Businesses effectively differentiate themselves from the competition.
• Businesses prevent the absence of caregiving employees and contribute to their health maintenance.
• Businesses maximize the efficiency of caregiving employees for the benefit of their company.
• Companies avoid layoffs, the loss of expertise, and the effort of new hires and training.

How can care coordinators be established in the workplace?

For example: together with famPlus. With our basic online training, we provide you or selected people in your company with everything they need as a Care Guide PLUS. In this way, the in-house care guides can then take action and provide those affected with valuable information and empathetic support. And not only that. Because even after the training, in everyday operations, the experts from famPlus remain on board as contacts and provide advice whenever further support is needed. This is unique and our exclusive additional service.

Additionally, there is a virtual care kit that always contains up-to-date information on the topic, further counseling and care services, as well as helpful checklists.

The annual refresher training is also part of the program and keeps the Care GuidesPlus on track.
 

Get to know the PflegelotsePLUS program better now

Strengthen your employees in this challenging topic of balancing work and family – especially in Corona times, where contact is already a rarity and becomes all the more valuable – and get to know the Care Navigator program better now.

Our next care guide training will take place on 07.09., 09.09., 14.09., and 16.09.2021. 

Feel free to learn more about the topic via our link. Click here:  The PflegelotsePLUS Online Training - Cast Off for the Best Support | famPLUS

Convinced? Then book your appointment now online or by phone at 089/809902700. We look forward to working with you and your future Care Guides Plus to ensure a better balance between family and career.

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