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If you’re a social worker or occupational therapist working part time, I’d love to hear your experiences. What are the practical things that make it work? What makes it hard? How do we do more of it? I’m working with the LGA and ADASS to learn more so we can work alongside councils to enable more flexible working to be available more often. Click the pic for more…….
To say that creating environments where people learn, everyday and always, is one of the most important things for leaders to do is a strong statement and one that I firmly believe. Before I get into what a learning environment looks like and how to create one, I want to take a step back and start with why I believe this and why it’s such an important leadership skill to develop. This time round I get into why it’s important, the benefits it brings and how it helps to build confidence in the workplace. Click on the pic to read more……..
In this final blog of the series, I step back and reflect on the big themes that have emerged from diving into some of the reasons why adults social care is experiencing workforce pressures. Through the journey I’ve been on with Andrew Burridge, NWADASS, we’ve explored some of the immediate actions that are with any of our gift to take to improve recruitment practices as well as diving deeper to explore some of the system issues impacting on workforce recruitment and retention and what some of the longer term solutions could be. Click the pic to read more…..
This week I’m thrilled that Linda Hutchinson of LHAlliances has agreed to guest blog for the penultimate of this mini series. Linda is the leading expert on alliance contracts in public sector in the UK. Linda is a highly experienced senior professional with twenty five years’ experience in frontline health services. She has a strong track record of innovation and delivery of major change programmes in university, health, government and regulatory sectors. Here Linda writes about the role that Alliance contracting could play in helping to alleviate workforce pressures in Adults Social Care in the longer term.
Just as important as recruiting the right people into Adults Social Care - if not, even more so, is how you keep hold of them once they are working for you. I’ve spent a lot of time working alongside social care services who experience high turnover and there are common reasons that are nearly always at play. Get these things right for the people who work for you and you’ll be rewarded with loyal, committed high performing staff who go the extra mile because they know they’re making a difference. Click the pic to read more
Last week, I explored how to attract the right people to work for you and gave you some practical tips and techniques to increase your chances of success. Attracting the right people is only the first part of securing quality employees. How you respond to their interest is crucial. It’s always crucial and in current times when competition for great applicants is rife it’s even more crucial. Click on the pic to read more……..
Adults Social Care needs more staff. Demand is rising and the social care sector is creaking but we don’t want to attract just anybody. Attracting the right people with the right values and attitudes is essential to success. In this weeks blog, I tell you how to up your chances of attracting the right people to work for you. Click the pic to read more…….
It’s time to change the story when it comes to social care. I’m fed up of all the negative coverage of social care. Social care is amazing!! It’s a sector full of brilliant, warm, kind, caring people who make a difference every day. If we’re serious about attracting more people to work in the sector, we have to start helping people to understand what social care really is, the opportunities available and the huge pull of enabling people to live their best lives. Click the pic to read more……..
