A YOUNG health care assistant at Alexandra Hospital has shared her experience of working on the front line through poetry.

20-year-old Kirsty Elvins, who also works at Worcestershire Royal Hospital, decided to describe the reality of herself and other carers in an original poem. 

The Bidford medic filmed herself reciting the poem, which was inspired by the challenges that health care workers are facing.

In the poem, Kirsty writes: "While deaths are rising we are all still thriving. We face our fear with the given gear. 24 hours a day, 7 days a week... we will beat this peak. We are your health workers, we are your heroes."

She told the Advertiser: "The poem is about what's going on at the moment. I thought it would be important for me to put my emotions into words.

"It has actually helped me quite a lot, it's helped me to deal with this emotional situation."

Here is the poem in full:

Working in care people see the bare,

When in actual fact there's a lot more there,

When things are required, we get admired.

The buzzers bleeping and others sleeping,

Why not attend the ones in need?

While others are in need we are just doing a feed.

Monitoring patients who require more support,

Really aren't given much of a thought.

Just a carer is what people think,

But really what matters is what they don't see in a blink,

Sitting and supporting your dearest is what is at our nearest,

Through this extreme crisis,

We are all trying to be our nicest,

Being there to hold your loved ones hand,

To make you all stand.

While deaths are rising we are all still thriving.

We face our fear with the given gear.

24 hours a day, 7 days a week... we will beat this peak.

We are your health workers, we are your heroes.