Jayne Heaney
Having not worked for 19 years, Jayne Heaney, 37, has recently completed a ‘Jobs for Skills’ course, giving her the confidence to seek a new career in the care sector.
Jayne is a mother of five children, and has been the sole carer for her elderly mother for the last ten years. After years of juggling her responsibilities, her desire to return to work led her to enrol on a course aimed at giving long-term unemployed people a chance at a new career in the care sector.
During the course, Jayne faced several personal difficulties, including becoming homeless. However, she persevered and completed her course, whilst successfully re-housing her family with the help of the Welfare team at her college. Her nominator, Anne Holloway, describes how, “Despite her lack of self confidence and poor self-image, she has finished the course and now feels confident enough to work in a care home.”
Jayne is now planning to do an NVQ in Care so that she can fulfil her lifetime dream to enter nursing, which she says, “is now a real possibility and not just a dream.” She continues, “I have done this course to show that I can do more than be just a stay-at-home mum, and to find me again. I wouldn’t have had the confidence to even walk into a college. This has given me so much confidence. It’s an achievement that I can show my children.”
