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Fatou Sanneh, Team Leader

“I love the idea that I’m an important part of helping to build up the company and that I’m making a difference to not just current client’s lives but to those who’ll  receive care from us in the future too.”

Since the age of 19 Fatou Sanneh’s life has been geared towards helping others. That’s when she left her native Sweden to study for a degree in Health and Social Care in London. Then followed 14 years in the care industry, much of that time in Bradford, Yorkshire.

She moved to Edinburgh recently, tempted by the idea of working for a care company which offered a number of specialisms for clients.

“As a Team Leader with Social Care Alba I work alongside occupational therapists, physiotherapists, nurses and social workers,” she explains. “It’s great to be able to call in the special skills of colleagues when I need to.

“As you can imagine, the amount I’m adding to my own skills base is huge and, of course, it’s terrific for the clients to know they’re being treated by qualified health staff. “

Fatou’s team of care staff look after service users in the South of Edinburgh. Much of the work involves administering medication and supervising meals. Often that means three or four visits a day.

“It’s mostly a supervisory role that staff carry out,” she says. “Many of my team’s service users are very independent and like to do what they can for themselves and this, of course, is something we encourage.”

Fatou enjoys the responsibility of looking after staff as well as service users and appreciates the help she receives from other team leaders and staff qualified in other disciplines.  She adds: “We’re very much a team here at Social Care Alba - a family, if you like. I love the idea that I’m an important part of helping to build up this company and that I’m making a big difference to not just current service user’s lives but to those who’ll receive care from us in the future too. That makes me feel pretty special.”