Skills shortages dying out for healthcare recruiters?
20 May 2013
While some medical skills shortages are long-entrenched, there are signs that three – midwifery, nursing and residential care – are easing at least to some degree, Recruiter has learnt.
Mon, 20 May 2013While some medical skills shortages are long-entrenched, there are signs that three – midwifery, nursing and residential care – are easing at least to some degree, Recruiter has learnt.
Thomas Simons, the director of workforce & organisational development at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, says that “midwifery used to be very difficult to fill”. Not so much any more, with lots of European migrants coming into roles in the UK.
Similarly, he adds: “While there are still a lot of issues around nursing you are starting to see professionals coming over from Ireland and other markets that have seen austerity.”
Jayne Hanson, managing director of health, housing and social care recruiter, says: “We’ve got a particularly high demand for residential care workers and at this time we don’t have a shortage of applicants – a year ago we didn’t have this demand and we did have a shortage, so as a nation we seem to have got it right.”
But as Simon Hudson, director of healthcare at Hays, adds, the key skills shortage areas are generally “relatively unchanged year-on-year” – including A&E, which, as recruiter.co.uk reported last week, is facing a major staffing challenge.
Hanson, Hudson and Simons shared their views on the healthcare recruitment market, including what the Francis Report means for recruiters in this area, in the Sector Analysis on p16 of the May edition of Recruiter, out last week.
Thomas Simons, the director of workforce & organisational development at East & North Hertfordshire NHS Trust, says that “midwifery used to be very difficult to fill”. Not so much any more, with lots of European migrants coming into roles in the UK.
Similarly, he adds: “While there are still a lot of issues around nursing you are starting to see professionals coming over from Ireland and other markets that have seen austerity.”
Jayne Hanson, managing director of health, housing and social care recruiter, says: “We’ve got a particularly high demand for residential care workers and at this time we don’t have a shortage of applicants – a year ago we didn’t have this demand and we did have a shortage, so as a nation we seem to have got it right.”
But as Simon Hudson, director of healthcare at Hays, adds, the key skills shortage areas are generally “relatively unchanged year-on-year” – including A&E, which, as recruiter.co.uk reported last week, is facing a major staffing challenge.
Hanson, Hudson and Simons shared their views on the healthcare recruitment market, including what the Francis Report means for recruiters in this area, in the Sector Analysis on p16 of the May edition of Recruiter, out last week.
