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Documentary following the actress as she trains as a carer at one of the UK's leading health and social care colleges, where she will study, train, and work alongside students, care professionals, volunteers and home carers. Nerves hit on day one, but her first on-the-job work placement has a real impact
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Mon 25, 1:30 pm
Documentary following the actress as she trains as a carer at one of the UK's leading health and social care colleges, where she will study, train, and work alongside students, care professionals, volunteers and home carers. Nerves hit on day one, but her first on-the-job work placement has a real impact
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Mon 25, 7:00 pm
Natalie learns about childhood illnesses, meeting up with a friend who talks about her experiences of having a child with cancer and the support her family received from the nursing teams. Natalie then goes on to join a community nursing team, shadowing nurse Charlotte across clinics and home visits, while also facing up to her personal fear of needles
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Tue 26, 2:00 pm
As Natalie juggles college and family life, she learns about teenage mental health, online pressures and autism - and how care reaches far beyond the classroom. She also realises she has been putting off her own coursework, and as she finally sits down to start it, she gains a better understanding of the pressures facing her teenage daughter Eliza
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Wed 27, 2:00 pm
Natalie is halfway through her college course and growing in confidence. She meets up with her EastEnders colleague Kitty Castledine, who talks about life using a wheelchair since childhood, giving Natalie a clearer sense of the realities and barriers that come with accessibility. On placement, she enters the home of Lisa, who has multiple sclerosis, and her partner Gary, who cares for her
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Thu 28, 2:00 pm
Natalie joins the St John Ambulance team at a busy county show where a boy requires urgent help, and takes a placement at a centre supporting veterans adjusting to life beyond the forces. Back in college, Anna's physio class pushes her in a different way
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Mon 1, 2:00 pm
Natalie's training switches to care for the elderly, bringing back memories of her beloved dad. In college, the students get hands-on with different aspects of support and try out glasses that simulate conditions like glaucoma, along with weighted suits that affect movement and balance. Natalie's placement takes her to a Royal British Legion care home, where the focus is on keeping the residents active and involved. The programme also meets a group of men who gather as part of the Men's Shed community programme in Newtownabbey
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Tue 2, 2:00 pm
Natalie learns about dementia care, which proves to be one of the most emotional weeks of her course so far. She takes part in an immersive experience designed to disorientate and confuse - giving a sense of what it's like to have the disease - and talks to her agent Scott, who was married to her former EastEnders colleague Barbara Windsor, and how he looked after her as the disease took over. Finally she puts her learning into practice on a special placement at the Royal British Legion's Poppy Lodge dementia unit
More details for Natalie Cassidy: Caring Together, Wed 3, 2:00 pm