It’s not a simple task to track down quality candidates to fill care home manager jobs. If you think about it, home manager jobs involve a complex and potentially conflicting range of skills, combining an understanding of the clinical and caring sides of the nursing and care professions, combined 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 with confidence or the commercial experience needed to run a profitable business. In an ideal world, a care home would be run by a person with hands-on experience of the nursing sector together with the business knowledge 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 employ recruitment agencies when recruiting 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 dearth of well-qualified staff and a reasonably high level of burn-out, is it enough just to look at those currently seeking employment?

One recruitment consultancy in this sector, About Care, has taken the smart step of directly employing both qualified care home managers and experienced RGNs within its business to provide a more informed understanding of the needs of those searching to fill nursing home manager jobs. This means that its service is driven by staff with hands-on 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 crucial 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 proven 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 major 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 a questionable 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 tried and tested methods can really pay dividends.

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

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