NHS Western Isles - case study Recruit and Retain was the beginning of a process which aims to build capacity in rural International recruitment and retention collaboration Between 2011 and 2014 NHS Western led an international collaboration for a organisations and communities to address Northern Periphery Programme funded workforce challenges and ensure the project called The Recruit and Retain. sustainability of services. What is needed project was designed to identify and pilot now is to implement the Business Model test to the continuing challenges ‘solutions’ the ground’ by developing the required ‘on of recruiting and retaining public sector partnerships between organisations and workers in rural areas. The project included communities, and the required processes partners from Scotland, Sweden, and protocols within organisations. By Greenland, Iceland, Northern Ireland and doing this organisations and communities the Republic of Ireland, Norway, and will build capacity to address their Canada. workforce challenges and ensure the sustainability of services. We identified 29 covering ‘solutions’ activities such as advertising and Links to resources marketing of the rural location, changes to how services are delivered, career Reports development support, support for families and partners, and education and training. The project recommended that the Posters solutions be delivered within the framework of a Recruit and Retain Business Model which includes seven steps. This model and its component solutions are open source and there are no intellectual property issues relating to their use by anybody.
NHS Western Isles - case study International recruitment and retention collaboration Between 2011 and 2014 NHS Western led an international collaboration for a Northern Periphery Programme funded project called Recruit and Retain. The project was designed to identify and pilot test ‘solutions’ to the continuing challenges of recruiting and retaining public sector workers in rural areas. The project included partners from Scotland, Sweden, Greenland, Iceland, Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, Norway, and Canada. We identified 29 ‘solutions’ covering activities such as advertising and marketing of the rural location, changes to how services are delivered, career development support, support for families and partners, and education and training. The project recommended that the solutions be delivered within the framework of a Recruit and Retain Business Model which includes seven steps. This model and its component solutions are open source and there are no intellectual property issues relating to their use by anybody. Recruit and Retain was the beginning of a process which aims to build capacity in rural organisations and communities to address workforce challenges and ensure the sustainability of services. What is needed now is to implement the Business Model ‘on the ground’ by developing the required partnerships between organisations and communities, and the required processes and protocols within organisations. By doing this organisations and communities will build capacity to address their workforce challenges and ensure the sustainability of services. Links to resources Reports Posters
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