Staff Recruitment - Turner Village

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Record Number: 4.102

Record Type: Summary/Transcript

Caption:

In May 2006, on a visit to the site of what was the Royal Albert, this is a photograph taken of Steve Mee sharing a recollection with one of his students.
Steve was a Nurse and then Resettlement Officer at the Royal Albert during the 1980s and 90s. He is now a Senior Lecturer in The School of Nursing and Midwifery at St. Martins College, Lancaster training student nurses to work with people with learning difficulties.
However Steve’s first experience of working with people with learning disabilities was in Essex, at Turner Village, a long stay institution in Colchester. Having graduated in Sociology at Essex University in the late 1970s he had stayed in that part of the world.

In an extract from an interview (with Nigel Ingham) on September 22nd 2005 Steve recalls applying for work as a Care Assistant at Turner Village, Colchester in 1979. Please click on the MS Word file to read his memory of the recruitment process:

Notes:

For an oral history case study of the place of sport, especially football, in the recruitment and identity of male nurses in long stay institutions please see: Mitchell, H. (1997) Sporting Institutions: Football, Masculinity and Community Identity at Lennox Castle Hospital in Oral History, Vol. 25, No. 1 1997 pp 71-74

Keywords:

Staff 1970s First Impressions Staff Training Care Assistant

Graduate Labels Male Sport