like my first day i was in oh i was shocked at the level of personal care and how personal the
personal care was for me i did not need english proficiency tests that's one of the great sites
to apply for within changing career comes with different benefits and challenges especially
when you are changing career as well as changing locations in today's video i've got a wonderful
content creator with me who will be sharing with us some of our experiences with changing careers
in the united kingdom please welcome with me sola lucy but before we do that if you are new on the
channel hello my name is victoria also known as the nigerian thank you so much for stopping
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so without further ado i welcome tala into this conversation hello you're welcome to my
channel please introduce yourself to my viewers hello everybody um my name is omotola olusi i'm
glad to be here um i'm a mom nigerian mom i moved to the uk in december 2021 with my family and i've
been working as a healthcare assistant here in the uk so i'm basically a dependent who came in
to the uk working as a healthcare assistant before we even dive deep into like the questions
how has life in the uk been it's been an experience um the weather is a makes for an
interesting conversation the weather is very bipolar um it's very unpredictable sometimes
yeah it can be very unpredictable let's just stick with it yeah yeah it really can be um
yeah so thank you so much for coming on to the channel today my pleasure would you mind telling
us what was your career before and um how did you get to land yourself a health care assistant job
in the united kingdom all right so before coming to the uk i studied surveying land surveying and
geoinformatics i was a surveyor in training and i also worked as a surveying assistant for a while
but then i got into the uk and well before i got into uk series of life challenges and series of
events made me want to go into nursing so it's something i wanted to pursue for quite some time
um the decision to go into healthcare assistance as opposed to going to nursing school was
um something i contacted for a while because i had seen that there was career progression um
going into the uk and starting up as a healthcare system so my goal is to become a midwife but the
decision to go into healthcare as this chant is because of the characteristics that i have seen
um the possibility of the career progression that i've seen um to become a midwife through
this route so yes that is why i came in as a healthcare assistant wow awesome so yeah
i mean right in the making yes how long have you been in the uk as a healthcare assistant
so i came in in december 2021 but i didn't start working until around mid-february i actually
started working my first day was on valentine's day february 14th so that was the first day
of yeah so what exactly do healthcare assistance do can you um um give us um you know
explain to us what cause it's one of the main questions i mean the major questions that i have
had people asking um what exactly do um health care assistance do so basically um
healthcare assistant roles vary depending on where you work um for me the general concept of
healthcare assistance job roles is to give or to assist in living is give like assistance to live
for people who are vulnerable especially with adults or young children or nursing
mothers or it just it's just giving offering assisted living basically so that is what um
healthcare systems do um your job ranges from offering personal care manual handling
first aid you know you basically you do a little of everything depending on where you you work for
example i work in a care home and i we have in the care home we have dementia residents and we
also have nursing residents we also have react residents so we do a little bit of everything we
give personal care here and there we do moving and handling we offer palliative care in some cases
so it's it's a little bit of everything really so it's not it's limited but all like personal
at the same time um thank you so much for that i'm sure that this has answered a lot of questions in
the mind of some of my um viewers now um you came in into the uk as a dependent you know with your
spouse so i'm assuming that the requirements for becoming an healthcare assistant directly from
another country will be different for somebody who is a dependent i mean someone who's already in the
uk as a dependent of someone who is working and living legally in the united kingdom so can you um
elaborate expansion explain to us what are those requirements i mean i know that i have some of my
viewers who are also dependent and they might be thinking about these you know what are the
requirements to get a health care assistant job as a dependent in the united kingdom the requirements
to work as a healthcare assistant is a little less stringent or let me say it's a lot more easier
than someone who's applying from outside the country and looking for certificate of sponsorship
all right so for me i did not need english proficiency tests that's one of the great
sites to apply from within the uk i also did not need to show proof of funds or things like that
so all i needed to do was to i did some care certificate courses that was approved by cpd
i also had my tb certificates that i used to come into the country it
wasn't required but i submitted it as well i was also required to do a dbs
check dbs check is basically what we call a police clearance certificate in nigeria
so it's just it's basically a background check on your criminal record and it has to come in
clean every year going into child care or i don't care it has your gps has to come clean um
after that i also needed to submit my passport um to show that i have the right to work in the uk
also my visa my vrp um pain um quite a number of other things but it's limited to those few things
really so i did not need to um for someone who's coming in from their home country for example they
would need to write english proficiency tests i did not need that um someone else might also
as opposed to writing the eye out some people have to do marriage i did not need that either so
no nothing with english proficiency test which is like a lot of what people are scared of and
look most people are scared of writing ielts i feel like a lot of people dredge right in the
aisles or you know that's why they tend to choose naric which is a lot more expensive but you know
i feel like that actually lessens the burden well i i didn't know that you didn't have to do
you know some of those things that you mentioned wow that is that is good right um so um you've
been working in the uk as a healthcare assistant for about four months now and um i know before you
came into the uk you are severe like you said and you must have been working as a soviet for years
and now um what do you think um are some of the challenges that you faced you know with
this career change and how did you like overcome them i'm sure many people will be encouraged and
want to know how you um how you did that okay let me just give you let me go back because
i i seem to have made an impression that i was working as a sophia i did some work yes as sophia
as a sovereign assistant for some years but prior to that i was basically a housewife for a very
long period of time because we're starting up the family so i was basically coming from no work
at all into health care so that is that's my that's been my experience so it's not been
smooth as it were i had prior to coming to the uk had done a lot of research
i wanted to know where exactly i wanted to put my attention to i didn't want to work with the nhs i
didn't want to work with agencies i wanted to work in a care home reason has been that i wanted to be
able to shadow somebody and understand what care is about because i'm ultimately going to work with
probably nhs i know that for for a certain thing that i know i'm definitely going to want to work
with the nhs at some point but i wanted to ease into care so that was why i chose the care so i
had gone on youtube gone on google i had searched you know what it is about to be a care assistant
and watched videos on manual handling and you know things like that i had sort of a rough idea of
what to expect but nothing really prepared me for my own experience like my first day i was in oh
i was shocked at the level of um personal care and how personal the personal care was um
yeah yeah my first my first day was like i didn't it wasn't easy me to anything because
number one i wasn't even allowed to touch the residence i was just told to observe but then
seeing my colleagues or the person i was shadowing give personal care you know i
knew that at some point i'm going to have to start getting personality and the shadowing will
end but then you know nothing really prepared me for my own experience so i would say that anyone
who is planning to come get as much experience as possible i keep saying this on the telegram group
and if you do not have any experience working in the hospital or in any care setting
it's always good to find out what it did the exactly it is that you are
going into because some people tend to be shocked at after a while some people tend to
withdraw because they feel like it's too much for them and they didn't know how much um work
or how much detail or they didn't even understand the job description so yes my first year was
kind of an eye opener but then i eased into it also another thing is just understanding
work ethics and how you are supposed to conduct yourself in that kind of environment because
being a healthcare assistant is emotionally physically psychologically draining
it's not something that you should just want to venture in as an escape route if you are looking
to move out of your home country or you know you just want to go into it's something that you
really have to want to do for you to last in that profession i thank you so much for that i mean
that is something that i do encourage people to do also like get they need that experience
apart from the fact that when you are applying from outside the country i know that they didn't
really require you to have an experience because you're a dependent you know and it's a career path
that you want to like trade because someone coming from outside the country they require experience
one but for yourself i mean i tell people the healthcare assistance scheme in your country might
not be the same with the one in the uk but at least just get a glimpse of what it looks like so
that you know be sure when you get here and then you'll be like some people will get a and instead
of them enjoying the uk they will actually be miserable because they are stocked so you really
said a lot and um do you have any final words for people who are looking to um you know start
a career in care or um you know change careers to um care i know you've said it a lot already
but you have any final thoughts you know to share with us seek information always seek information
it's not just about applying for jobs know what you want to do and where you want to work
there are different aspects of care there's care home working with the care home there's home care
also known as community care i did a video with from vicky's hawks and we did kind of a comparison
of you know the care home setting and working in home care it's different you're not just
throwing your cv out there and you're saying anyone that comes i'm sure i'll take
there are different um aspects to care so you know exactly what you're going into i feel like
the care home should be the starting point for almost everybody because it's a way to
ease into health care assistant jobs it's not as easy as um just putting out applications and
saying oh i've done about 400 500. personally um myself coming into the uk here i i did um about
150 applications and that was me inside the uk here so someone from outside the uk might do
a lot more um applications than that but i'm just saying that you know know exactly where
you want to work research the areas where you want to work because um it does a lot
to go into the mental preparation of this job um with god on your side with favor with um
hard work because it is hard work to keep applying really i know it's not as easy as it once was
because of some behavior and some you know things that have happened in the past but i know that you
know some people are still getting this job so um yeah all the best guys all the best wow that was
so insightful thank you so much tola for being on my channel thank you for having me i mean
you really said a lot of things i'm sure that a lot of people who go back you know from after
watching this video they'll sit down and review their reasons for wanting to come into the uk as
hcs and know if they believe this is really what they wanted or not so thank you so much once again
guys um tala has a youtube channel i'm going to be leaving it in the description box below
she's got a lot of videos i mean she's got the experience so everything you need to know about
health care assistant in the uk this is your girl okay go ahead click the link in the description
check out our videos and i'm sure you won't regret doing that thank you so much guys for
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