My cousin has recently got a job as an Intellectual Disabilities Nurse with a well known charity in a residential setting. Since she started 4 months ago she has been given mainly carer duties but the main problem is that she is having to do her 12 hour shift without any break. She had said at the start that she wanted to get a break which she has to take in her car as there is no room available for staff however she has found over the past few weeks that she is being left in the residential apartment with no-one available to relieve her she is finding that its not the lack of food it s the need for her mental health to have the break. Initially she had not been getting break and she mentioned it to her manager who said of course she is entitled to breaks but subsequently has been treating her negatively since so she is too scared to approach the manager again. She is still on probation. Im just looking for advice on how i can support her or how she can ask for her break without drawing the wrath of the manager ..... Other staff endure the same