It’s not an easy task to source quality candidates to fill care home manager jobs. If you think about it, home manager jobs require a complex and potentially conflicting range of skills, combining an understanding of the clinical and caring aspects of the nursing and care professions, along with the commercial sense of any other business manager. Many nursing home manager jobs are filled by candidates who lean to one side of this divide or the other; lacking either the clinical understanding needed to manage nursing staff well or the commercial experience needed to run a profitable business. In an ideal world, a care home would be run by someone with hands-on experience of the nursing profession together with the business acumen required of anyone heading up a successful commercial organisation. It is indeed a tough ask – so what is the answer?

As in many other sectors of the healthcare industry, it is becoming increasingly common to involve recruitment agencies when looking for new managers, but can an agency really understand the uniquely complex needs of the home manager’s role? And, given this is an industry with a lack of well-qualified staff and a fairly high level of burn-out, is it enough just to look at those currently seeking employment?

One recruitment consultancy in this field, About Care, has taken the brave step of directly employing both qualified care home managers and experienced RGNs within its organisation to provide a deeper understanding of the needs of those looking to fill nursing home manager jobs. This means that its service is driven by staff with direct experience of the sector, not mere consultants who can only see from the outside in. It’s a smart move, especially in this particular field, and has served them well.

Another important element to their approach, and one essential in any industry where there are more openings than suitably qualified and experienced candidates, is to approach existing managers with excellent track records and qualifications and present them with available care home manager jobs, giving them the opportunity to progress their careers in another care or nursing home. The big advantage of this approach is that it tends to avoid organisations being forced to fill home manager jobs from a field consisting only of those desperate to leave their current role (for whatever reason). Although it must be stressed that not every job-seeker is an imperfect candidate, the traditional methods of recruitment for nursing home manager jobs can limit the options for a home determined to find the very best person for the job – which is why a break from the more usual methods can really pay dividends.

Please visit http://www.aboutcare.co.uk/ for further information about this topic.

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