As a health care worker part of the role can be to do 'sleep ins'. This means we can be on site for 24+ hours depending on what shifts you are working before and or after. It is part of the job and many people get on with it. Time and time again we ask for the bare minimum facilities for our staff group. There are bare minimum legal responsibilities for an employer to provide for an employee during their sleep in which comes down to providing a mattress in a room. 

Considering staff are told it's part of their job to be on these sleep ins and we cannot legally leave the site, we have no choice but to use the facilities provided. Only during covid have the rules changed to separate toilets from people that are supported. 

All I am asking is that there are some minimum legal responsibilities put in place for employers who expect their staff to be available for them the next working day safely. They want our support and we want to be there. Most of us wouldn't be there if we didn't like what we were doing. 

Staff should feel comfortable about being asked to sleep in.

They should legally have to provide staff with a separate room/ bed not in someone's house, a separate toilet as a minimum, somewhere to wash would be great and it to be clean. Emergencies can arise, we have all learnt from Covid that situations change in a flash, but we are 2 years in and should not be expected to sleep in a bare room with a mattress piled up, disturbances throughout the night due to people we support in their own homes. 

Please sign this petition as I am sure there are many support workers/ carers/ health care assistants going through the same daily argument! 

I want change and getting no where.