Adrian Grove, business development director at Qube Learning, explains how social care employers can win with incentives and recruitment via traineeships, apprenticeships, and e-learning.
As the UK faces a significant staffing crisis in social care, after widespread burnout, vaccination requirements, Brexit, and limited funding, the need for recruitment in the care sector has never been more important.
Dwindling staff numbers are reducing bed capacity, and as the November deadline for staff vaccinations arrives, the Homecare Association (UKHCA) has warned for some members this will reduce their staff rosters by over 25 per cent.
UKHCA chief executive Dr. Jane Townson said: “This creates a serious risk that homecare will not be available for tens of thousands of older and disabled people who are wholly reliant on support.”
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