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Adult social care vacancy numbers fall slightly from all-time high but still top 150,000

Community Care

The drop appears to have been driven significantly by the government’s decision to allow care providers to recruit care workers and home carers through skilled health and care visas from February 2022, by placing them on its shortage occupation list. However, this remains well above the 110,000 recorded in March 2021.

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Sharp rise in vacancies placing ‘significant stress’ on social care OTs, warns college

Community Care

OTs facing ‘significant stress’ “We know occupational therapists working in social care are dealing with significant staff shortages, with over two-thirds of respondents in our recent workforce survey indicating they are in teams that are not fully staffed,” it said.

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Social work’s public image ‘pushing people out of frontline roles and making families distrustful’

Community Care

Social work’s poor public image is driving people out of frontline children’s roles, hurting recruitment and making families fearful and distrustful of practitioners. Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll. For this campaign to be a success, we need your support.

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Employers failing to advertise part-time social work roles, finds study

Community Care

At a time of mounting vacancies and turnover across both statutory children’s and adults’ services in England, a drop in the number of adults’ practitioners employed, and the need to recruit more to implement the forthcoming social care funding reforms , the union said the situation risked exacerbating staff shortages.

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Nursing Shortage Solutions Are Happening — Because They Must

Relias

Healthcare organizations need to take innovative and strategic approaches to overcome the challenges of the current healthcare landscape, and nursing shortage solutions are one of the first needs to address. Many organizations are including new staffing models that are hybrids of older models.

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The Nursing Shortage and Patient Safety

Relias

Research has shown that less time and resources for each nurse due to low staffing can negatively impact patient safety. The risk of making errors while providing routine care increases when staffing issues exist. But recruiting is not the only way to help mitigate staffing shortfalls. A DEIB review could help.

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7 Nurse Recruitment and Retention Strategies

Relias

Given the current and future need for nurses, healthcare organizations must focus on recruiting new nurses, but perhaps more importantly — keeping their nursing staff engaged in clinical practice. Maximizing nurse recruitment and retention is a challenge nearly every healthcare organization across the country is facing.