Recruiting hard-to-fill posts

摘要

Dawn Warwick describes how her social services department set about to develop a successful recruitment and retention strategy The shortage of social workers and occupational therapists is a national problem, with authorities fishing together in an already 'well fished' pool. I joined Slough BC as director of social services in 2001 and discovered staff recruitment was a major issue with some teams having 40 per cent vacancies. Clearly this had an impact on the quality of service we provided. No sooner had we appointed someone to a post, another person would leave. This was usually down to higher salaries elsewhere or the lure of London.