We are delighted to see the hard work and commitment of our staff members being recognised and acknowledged In a letter from the City’s Council leader Gerald Vernon Jackson and Cabinet member for Health, Wellbeing and Social Care Cllr Jason Fazackarley
“We are writing to express our thanks and the gratitude of Adult Social Care and Portsmouth City Council as a whole for the work that you have done as a Domiciliary Care worker during the lifetime of this pandemic.”
“We would be grateful if you could pass on our thanks and wholehearted appreciation to staff who have served and continue to service the citizens of Portsmouth in these difficult times”
The letter acknowledges the important and often under sung role played by care staff at local providers like Nightingales, whose dedicated team have worked so hard to keep the service running in difficult times:
The Health Service has received many accolades and rightly so, but we fully appreciate that Domiciliary Care staff have played a vital role in ensuring that the needs of some of the most vulnerable people in our Community have been met. This has clearly involved a great degree of determination courage and commitment, continuing to work and go into people’s homes while managing the considerable anxiety many will have felt about their own health and the health of families and friends with whom they come into contact.
There has been a huge amount of gratitude form our service users and their families who have relied upon the work or care staff provide even more than they usually do. We know what we do is important and makes a hugely positive impact upon the people we support and we are so proud of the whole team and are glad to see their hard work acknowledged in this way.
