Equal opportunities - blah blah blah

RetiredGreyFox · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:42

While I'm bumming around at the moment and to keep the Jobcentre happy, I decided to take a 6 week NHS Clinical Support course where I'll end up with a Level 3 certificate in pushing a wheelchair.
I arrived in the class this morning to be greeted by the United Nations but that didn't bother me.
What did bother me was that we did a Numeracy & Literacy test and 5 of them had Support Assistants with them :confused:

Because of equal opportunities everybody gets a chance at doing a job even if they can't talk English.
I got 100% in my Numeracy and 98% in my Literacy (I spelt hoping with an E) but looking round the rest of the class most of them were around 10%.
In the old days they would have showed you the door at that point but because of Equal Opportunities they will be able to sit it again and again and again with their own tutor who probably costs us the public about £20 a hour.

RetiredGreyFox · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:47

Sinque said:
So you're saying people who arn't English or dumb shouldn't have a chance at the job?

So are you saying that people who are illiterate, dumb and can't speak English should have a job in our NHS?

RetiredGreyFox · 28 Jan 2008 at 16:55

Ben M said:
Just like people shouldn't get money for doing nothing,

Like the OP - what a bum.

RetiredGreyFox · 28 Jan 2008 at 17:00

stevenazari1 said:
but then again its just pushing a wheel chair isnt it? I mean :S "shut up and drive" or "shut up and push"...... :S

Read Haggismans reply above.
I mentioned pushing a wheelchair as a joke.

RetiredGreyFox · 15 Feb 2008 at 12:09

jaydee said:
Dmpoole.. Your spelling and grammar are excellent. etc etc

Good post, I missed it first time around.

Anyway, I saw equal opportunities a put to a great level on tuesday.
Part of the NHS course was attending a class on communication.
The Lecturer made it clear how communication was a key element of jobs in the NHS and people could die if you communicated badly.
We had 3 foreign students who spoke really bad English and they now had one Support Assistant between the 3 of them.
The Lecturer leaned over to me to pass a message back to him a minute later which I did with no problems.
The rest of the class did the same with no real problems but when he got to the 3 foreigners he got nowhere and neither did the Assistant.
At that point I would have asked them to leave because they couldn't even fit the most simplest requirement of the job but because of equal opportunities they will finish the course and get a certificate.