{"id":13185,"date":"2021-05-11T15:06:27","date_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:06:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/?p=13185"},"modified":"2021-05-11T15:06:27","modified_gmt":"2021-05-11T15:06:27","slug":"senior-carers-on-the-shortage-occupation-list-sol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/senior-carers-on-the-shortage-occupation-list-sol\/","title":{"rendered":"Senior carers on the shortage occupation list (SOL)"},"content":{"rendered":"
The government made a decision to include senior carers in the shortage occupation after calls from Care England and other agencies lobbying on behalf of social care and care home bosses. Care homes will now be able to recruit senior carers, managers in care homes and nursing assistants.<\/p>\n
The King’s Fund reports that there are over 100,000 social care job vacancies, and this move will give care homes and home care agencies the ability to recruit into vacant roles. Many associations including the United Kingdom Homecare Association and Care England have hailed this as a move in the right direction.<\/p>\n
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Benefits of the Senior Carer route for Care Homes\/ Residential Homes\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cRecruitment and retention of staff are of paramount importance to providers of adult social care. Any future immigration system must consider the realities of the adult social care sector including the valuable contribution of overseas nationals in providing care to some of society\u2019s most vulnerable\u201d.(Prof Martin Green,<\/em> Chief Executive of Care England)<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Staffing remains the number one challenge facing care and residential homes. Care home incidents and breaches to health and social care principles stem from a lack of well-trained staff and rapid staff turnover.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Skills for Care\u2019s 2019 workforce data:<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Impact of Brexit in 2021\/22:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n Due to the end of free movement within the EU and a potential exodus of EU staff post-Brexit\/ Covid crisis, planning and executing a robust recruitment strategy is crucial to the successful running of Care homes.\u00a0\u00a0To help plan your workforce, we at Cloudcare Solutions can deliver services that include sourcing, training, onboarding, immigration support, and advice to ensure an appropriate number of staff with the right skills are recruited to care homes and Hospitals.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A report published by The Health Foundation (2020) titled, \u2018\u2019 Building the NHS nursing workforce in England concluded that:<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n A sustainable long-term approach with ongoing recruitment planning and strategy is KEY\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The government made a decision to include senior carers in the shortage occupation after calls from Care England and other agencies lobbying on behalf of social care and care home bosses. Care homes will now be able to recruit senior carers, managers in care homes and nursing assistants. The King’s Fund reports that there are […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13185"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13189,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13185\/revisions\/13189"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/676"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cloudcaresolutions.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n
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