Gita’s story

My name is Jurgita Paul, I am best known to all as Gita. I was born in Lithuania and came to the UK in 2005 as a 20-year-old looking for work. I consider myself very fortunate to have found work in the private care sector in which I still work today. I met my husband Simon here in the UK and we are happily married. I am proud to say that he has recently also started working in care. I have worked with Anchor for the last four years. I started as team leader at a 52-bed residential home and was encouraged by management to become QCF assessor and health and safety coordinator. After two years I had a great opportunity to become care manager at West Hall (one of Anchor’s new builds) and worked to help to create a strong care team there. I am currently working as care manager at Keswick, a 52-bed residential care home in Leatherhead. I joined UNISON while working at West Hall. My reason for joining UNISON was simple: I needed extra advice and support when negotiating with my line managers at the time. I was contacted by UNISON after a while and encouraged to become steward for Anchor colleagues. I said yes and haven’t regretted it since! I have finished first blended steward training with UNISON this year and have booked myself to do all steward passport courses. I hope to enrol to study an employment law diploma with UNISON his autumn. I have met lots of great and passionate people from various working environments, including public and private sectors, here at UNIS...
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