We have done some research and could not find any web site that is dedicated to the people that has made "Caring" a career.

There are loads of information out there for carers that are a family member of the person cared for.

Our aim with this web site is to provide a complete source of information that you the professional carer needs in your day to day tasks.
As well as a place where you can voice your opinion about your chosen career path.

By joining Carers Northern Ireland you will get;

• Access to the discussion forum
• Access to tons of useful information
• easy understandable information on the legislation and policies that cover our chosen career.
• Your own personal profile page showing;
  • who and what you are
  • your qualifications
  • your registrations
  • your photo
  • availability
• Clients can check your availability
• Clients can make a booking
• On-line invoice
• On-Line payments, using paypal - optional
• SSL secured pages conforming to industry standards to protect confidential information.

In the Carers Northern Ireland discussion forums any topic is acceptable ranging from;

• Your opinion on legislation and the implementation there off
• Your opinion on the role of the carer in general
• Ask questions that you have always been to afraid to ask
• Feel free to be controversial
• Support you get or don't get from your Team Leaders, Supervisors, Locality Managers
• Concerns about the suitability of carers for specific service users
• Concerns about abuse to service users from carers
• Concerns about abuse to carers users from service users
• Concerns about abuse to service users and carers by family members
• Carers Rights
• Service Users Rights
• Responsibilities from Agencies to service users and carers
• Training
• Funny things that happened.
• Job opportunities
• Basically anything that you are not happy with or have problems with.

Who can join Carers Northern Ireland

Anyone or any organisation that has something to do with the Caring industry can join Carers Northern Ireland.

• Service Users
• Service Providers
• Regulators

How much does it cost to join Carers Northern Ireland?

To become a member of Carers Northern Ireland is totally free.
All you need to do is be in a position where you can give input into the caring industry.

We will be honouring all policy's, code of conducts and legislation regarding service users confidentiality on this web site and forums.
We will gather private information in certain areas of the site to allow the appropriate authorities to follow up on some concerns or issues if the need be.

All information will be handled in the strictest of confidence and fully inline with the data protection act.

I hope to have a couple of professional people onboard with us to assist us in solving issues and to give us pointers when things start to go wrong at the agency or nursing home where you might work.

This site is not publicly launched yet and still under construction.
If you stumble across this site or are invited to view and give input then you can contact me from the contact us page.