Can you remember recruiting care workers before the Internet? Hard to recall isn’t it. For those of you who weren’t there, let me take you back 20 years. Once upon a time local and regional newspapers ruled the land for… Read full article
From my experience, social care recruiters have leant heavily on Internet Job Boards for finding staff. The more successful have already started to diversify. So, let’s take a look at the five most common online recruitment options and my verdict… Read full article
Before taking my first job in social care, I worked in healthcare. One of the big shocks of making the transition (and there were many), was how little data we had available compared to our hospital colleagues. Hospitals seemed to… Read full article
As you will appreciate, life is tough out there for social care recruiters these days. A lot of time and money is spent placing, tweaking and refreshing adverts for frontline staff, all the while attempting to get the attention of… Read full article
Many care recruiters measure their performance by the volume of applications they receive or whether they have filled all the available places on the upcoming induction course. But success in social care recruitment isn’t about maximising the number of applicants… Read full article
It doesn’t seem that long ago that finding new frontline care staff was never an issue. How times have changed. Powerful headwinds are making the search for quality staff a real challenge across the sector. I first heard the term… Read full article
Filling frontline care vacancies is getting harder; as we heard in the media last week. This situation is not limited to the UK of course. All nations with a developed social care market are also feeling the unrelenting forces of… Read full article
At the core of any Outstanding-rated care or nursing home will be a well-selected, valued and motivated workforce. In fact, the importance of quality staff also dominates surveys of residents and their families and will be certain to take up… 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