Our award winning psychometric assessment tool, PeopleClues, has reached its 1000th user milestone, helping to increase staff retention rates for health and social care organisations across the UK. With the addition of our most recent client, the Royal Masonic Benevolent… Read full article
Eight years. My pilgrimage to understand from overseas care providers how we in the UK can find more and better frontline staff seems to have only just started. But on the way I have seen a wide range of sourcing… Read full article
It’s not a click-bait headline because the dog will be along in a minute, but in this piece, I want to look at the importance of building your local reputation, with or without four-legged help. Or as an expensive marketing… Read full article
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As some readers may know, I have spent many years studying overseas social care markets for new-to-the-UK approaches to the recruitment and retention of frontline care staff. This post concerns a novel and highly effective US intervention to address the… Read full article
Neil Eastwood gives his perspective on how to address issues of staff turnover, drawing on examples from US care settings. This article first appeared in Care Management Matters December 2014 ‘I’m leaving’ It’s a phrase that’s not easy to be… Read full article
The very first thing to do when refreshing your approach to recruitment is to understand what is already working well for you now – in other words, where your best frontline care employees have come from. Let’s say you have… Read full article
Filling frontline care vacancies is getting harder. Last year the Department for Work and Pensions warned that Britain is “running out of workers”. An estimated 13.5 million job vacancies will need to be filled over the next ten years, but… Read full article