Collaborative Recruitment Solutions

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Collaborative Recruitment Solutions
Janet Crampton, CSIP Lucianne Sawyer, UKHCA
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The Collaborative Recruitment Project

• Where it started the commissioning
• and service development role of CSIP
• Acknowledging the importance of The
• Forgotten Factor
• The project brief to identify good practice in
• social care, focusing principally on
  domiciliary
• care and seeking out collaboration between
• and across sectors
• The players, and their methodology

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Key Messages

• market development and the need to build capacity
  
• sharing risk
• developing a partnering approach
• knowing how to attract a workforce, and
• how to avoid losing them

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Its all about staffing

• What staff like
• valued, healthy relationships with service users
• being allowed to respond flexibly to SUs needs
• having their views listened to
• working in a team
• supportive and appreciative management
• good training
• personal development and career opportunities
• flexible working terms and conditions

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Staffing (contd)

• What staff dont like
• job insecurity
• work not guaranteed
• anti-social hours
• short visits
• unpaid travel time
• split shifts and gaps in assignments
• perceived low status of social care work
• relatively poor terms and conditions

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Examples of good collaborative working

• a report full of case studies where joint
  ownership
• problem has led to creative, innovative
  solutions
• 6 chapters on specific issues, supported by
  examples
• - context
• - working together, partnership working
• - approaches to recruitment
• - increasing the pool
• - promoting retention
• - factors to consider

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Increasing the Pool

• By attracting a wider target market
• younger people
• people who have been out of employment
• people who have not worked in social care before
• people from marginalised communities
• more mature workers
• recruiting internationally

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Recruitment methods

• workforce analysis and mapping
• profile raising
• developing career pathways
• advertising
• job fairs and other events
• recruitment literature
• websites

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Impacts of commissioning/contracting

• does success in managing the market just mean
• holding down the price?
• is it time to review the balance between
• in-house re-enablement, ic, rapid response
• (the more specialist services), and
• independent sector role in maintenance of
• long term care?
• what effect has task-based commissioning had
• on service development and delivery?
• can independent employers provide good training
• without help and should they?
• how does the nature of contracts affect capacity
• and responsiveness?

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What happens next?

• Report (with ministerial foreword) due out in
• October
• Preview at the National Social Services
  conference
• in Brighton
• Launch at a national event funding still to be
• agreed
• CSIP support to implementation
• Updated website

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Discussion What are the issues in your
area? How are you overcoming problems?