General Assembly: Aid organization welcomes measures taken by Care Platform II.
The Salzburg welfare organization has been actively involved in the measures of care platform II and believes in their effectiveness for the professional group. At the General Assembly, Managing Director Hermann Hagleitner spoke of the “biggest reform package in over 20 years”.
SALZBURG. Not all rooms can currently be occupied in the retirement home of the municipality of Wals-Siezenheim. There is a lack of staff. Daniela Knauseder, Head of Nursing in Werfen, says in the aid agency’s video: “The employees who file documents compensate as much as possible. The training also takes time.” An employee in mobile care talks about her challenges: “Not all households offer good conditions for care work. The work still has to be done.” The situation of households in the country is often a challenge, especially in winter.
40,000 new jobs were created in Salzburg
Governor Wilfried Haslauer was confronted with declarations like these at the general assembly of the Salzburg aid organization. The general lack of workers is to blame for the difficult situation in care, but also in many other professional groups, says the governor: “The baby boomers are retiring. 40,000 new jobs have been created in Salzburg in ten years Attitude to work has changed. Few still want to work 50 hours a week,” says Haslauer, explaining the many vacancies.
Completed therapy in the hospital
“This leads to operations being postponed & because there is a lack of staff for further care. In Salzburg we have 100 people who are actually out of therapy but cannot be removed from the hospitals because there is no place for them in nursing homes. These have become everyday problems”, the governor.
“It’s not the job that’s unattractive, it’s the effects of the lack of employees”
The task of politics is to improve the framework conditions in such a way that the nursing profession remains attractive. Because the activity is fulfilled, only the effects of the lack of employees are unattractive – eg the resulting insecurity in the duty plan.
This is what Care Platform II brings to the aid organization:
In order to improve the framework conditions, care platforms I and II were founded, on which the aid organization also worked. The governor lists the following as improving for the employees:
- First-time trainees receive a monthly training subsidy of 600 euros as well as social insurance
- The AMS supports the training for assistants and specialist assistants with a nursing grant of 1,400 euros per month.
- The state pays for the training of the practical instructors
- Practice rooms are created
- There is an increase in night duty (two people per night) and increase in financial rewards
- Funding should be provided to senior homes to hire additional administrative support staff.
- There is a “dirty and hardship allowance” of 200 euros per month for participation and mobile services
- The stand-by allowance is quickly increased
- Residential homes for the elderly are attached to “ELGA”, which is intended to make administrative work easier
- There is a legal entitlement to long-term care leave
- Care places in senior day centers are to be expanded
Aid organization got involved
The Salzburg welfare organization is committed to speaking out about the results and initiating the measures that have been decided: “We were actively involved in all working groups within the framework of Care Platform II in order to identify necessary measures and make recommendations,” says Hermann Hagleitner, Managing Director of the Salzburg welfare organization. “Many of the points that we consider necessary should now be implemented.”
Home help course started in October
The aid organization wants to implement the measures developed from Platform II quickly. In October, for example, the company started the first home help course for nursing home staff with 24 participants. This course is to be funded by the state and can be completed by participants in a social or health service or in a municipality.
A few numbers:
- 1,370 employees work at the Salzburg welfare organization. In addition, 510 people are volunteers.
- 7,944 people are cared for every month
- 181,724 hours of care are provided in home nursing
- Meals on Wheels reached 789 customers
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