Match Options director, Purity Kirigo, examines the current difficulties within the UK healthcare recruitment market and highlights how the problem of findingskilled candidates is only likely to get worse after Brexit.
Recruitment is a challenge in any industry, however the highly regulated healthcare sector is tougher than most. Not only do employers have to fight against an acute skills shortage and an ageing population, but it is the only sector where the stakes are so high that organisations cannot take any chances with candidates who do not have the exact requisite skill set.
The acute shortage of qualified health staff across the board in the UK means organisations need help finding quality staff. The demand for qualified doctors and nurses has never been so high, both in the NHS and private care sector. Add to this the dramatic increase in the ageing population meaning that the care sector is one of the fastest growing markets in the UK, and you can see how the recruitment numbers just don’t stack up.
As healthcare staff are in such high demand it is becoming harder, and more time consuming, for organisations to recruit the quality they strive for. Healthcare organisations simply cannot afford to make the wrong hire, as it is often quite literally life and death on the line. Without even considering the normal recruitment costs of hiring the wrong person, you have to worry about the huge legal implications if anyone purposefully or inadvertently breaks protocol that could lead to the harm of a patient. No chances can be taken.
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