Interview

The tums group is a place where you can grow forever.
Would you like to build the future of welfare together?

The history of foreign employment accumulated by the tums group

I came to the tums group in October 2007, 14 years ago. I joined tums SAKURA Hospital KAWAGUCHI as a nurse, and in 2012 I decided to accept a certified care worker candidate based on the EPA (Economic Partnership Agreement), so I will support foreign staff. rice field. The seven people I met at this time were first-year students who later laid the foundation for the EPA of the tums group.
At that time, it was the first time for a corporation to accept foreigners, so the preparation of daily necessities and consideration of meals were not perfect, and there was a rush to deal with the problems that emerged each time. Also, even though I was assigned the role of supporting, I had insufficient knowledge of long-term care until then, and I sometimes went to an overnight study session with seven people. Looking back, I think that the first-year students have had a lot of trouble.
Now, more than 10 years later, tums SAKURA no MORI KAWAGUCHI has accepted about 20 foreigners, and the religion and the response of a wide variety of human resources have become stable.
For example, during Ramadan, which is held about once a year by Muslims, who make up about 87% of Indonesians, eating and drinking during the day is prohibited, so bathing assistance is provided to prevent sweating and dry throat. Exempted. We have prepared a separate break room so that Japanese staff members do not get appetite by eating lunch boxes nearby. Other EPA employees in the tums group were born as men but live as women. In the future, I would like to aim for a facility where you can work without decorating, such as setting up a changing room compatible with LGBT, where you can raise the rainbow flag proudly.
There was also a staff member who introduced the tums group to a friend in his home country as a corporation that understands customs by making use of various experiences and aiming to create an environment where foreigners can work comfortably. You cannot change your workplace at the stage of being a certified certified worker, so if you want to change jobs, you must qualify as a certified certified worker. In some cases, he chose the tums group as a place where he can work for a long time after getting a qualification, and I am proud that the days of trial and error that I have accumulated step by step from the first grade have come to fruition.

Passed the national examination and went to my home country as an interpreter. Further promises made with my mother.

I would like to talk about an Indonesian man who has been working at tums SAKURA no MORI KAWAGUCHI for 5 years.
He studies harder than anyone else, but he has a delicate heart, so he often can’t sleep at night, and he often emails me “I can’t sleep”. I was a little worried that I might be frustrated because of my anxious personality, but I got a certified certified care worker and decided to participate in the interview in Indonesia conducted by the tums group as an interpreter.
In the tums group, EPA staff who have obtained a certified care worker qualification can return to Japan temporarily as an interpreter at the expense of a corporation and spend about a week with their families, so everyone is working hard on that day.
When I went to Indonesia with him and met my parents, he thanked me many times, “Thank you for raising me well,” so I promise to grow him even more. Did. After returning to Japan, my awareness increased, and I overcame my bearish self and began to ask me, “Please tell me what is missing.” I also faced and taught more seriously than ever before. As a result, I was appointed as a unit leader, which was my biggest goal, and was selected as an “excellent student” in the basic leader training that I took with Japanese staff. It is a time when it is difficult to return to Japan due to the corona, but the next time I meet my parents again, I think that I will be able to see them grow stronger than ever.
『It is a place that respects the customs of your home country and fully supports the achievement of your goals.』Mr. Fajar is also a person who keeps working hard and fulfills his dreams, and I truly trust him to work in good faith. Even after getting a certified care worker, he has been doing his best without losing his aspirations, so now I sometimes ask him to create and translate important meeting materials. You also got the car license you were talking about at the time of the interview. The tums group is a place where you can grow as much as you like, so I hope you will expand your dreams to your heart’s content.
Most of the foreign employees of the tums group come to work in Japan to support the lives of their families in their home countries, and the idea is that if they do not work, their families will be in trouble. My stuff is not my stuff, my stuff is my family’s. In addition to the situation where my family’s life depends on my work, I am just impressed with the passion that I am mentally strong because I work in a foreign country where I am not accustomed to living. In addition, while working and talking with foreign staff, it is strongly emphasized that the Japanese have a forgotten “spirit of respecting and caring for others” and “volunteer spirit that does not seek rewards”.
I feel it. We are in a position to welcome you to Japan, but on the contrary, there is a lot of courage and learning.

Future welfare aimed at by the tums group

To describe the tums group in one word, it is a corporation that is looking toward the “future”. We are focusing on the staff training system as one of the steps toward the future. I am getting older to learn something, but the corporation pays for various training such as training taken with first-year students, training for first-time care workers, training for managers, leadership training, etc. Gave me. Participating in external training is very helpful so that you don’t become a frog in the well. We will do our utmost to support the attitude of learning both training and study, and if that leads to the provision of high-quality long-term care, we believe that the future will be even more refined.
As mentioned above, I was in the hospital as a nurse before coming to the welfare facility. Patients who are sick in hospitals rely on themselves, but welfare facilities do not attract residents unless they work from here. In the tums group, tenants = customers. We have the concept of a team where everyone in the facility looks at independence support and personalized care. I find it very wonderful that all the staff of the facility are responsible for the daily lives of the people they call. Actually, my mother lives in tums SAKURA no MORI MICHIAI, but she always looks beautiful every time I go to see her. From an objective point of view, I am convinced that Sakura-no-Mori of the tums group is a facility that values ​​the family with a high quality of life that we can provide.
The goal I have in my heart is to set up a unit in tums SAKURA no MORI KAWAGUCHI to accept foreign residents. Foreign staff are in charge of the unit, serving halal food, and the Quran is flowing in the unit in the morning. how is it? It would be nice to build a mosque in the facility. I think that achieving the standard in the future that is not easy will lead to the quality of the facility, and it will become the “future” of the special elderly nursing home.

tums SAKURA no MORI KAWAGUCHI

539-5 Godo, Kawaguchi City, Saitama Prefecture 333-0832 TEL: 048-291-5601
[Capacity] 140 people
[Residential room] 140 rooms, all private rooms
[Number of units] 10 people x 14 units