Why healthcare needs new technology
According to the NHS Staff Survey last year, healthcare recruitment is at a crisis point. Due to Brexit, public sector pay policy, changing legislation and other factors outside of the control of the NHS, the system is struggling. Now is the time to be innovative and experimental, which naturally includes the technology and software that is made available to the healthcare industry. It’s no secret that many of their processes are outdated, slow and inefficient, but thankfully with updated recruitment software healthcare agencies can offer viable solutions.
Screening technology
With so many workers to screen and interview, it can often be hard to find the right people in time. The average healthcare recruiter takes six seconds to screen a CV, which isn’t always long enough, therefore many talented workers fall through the gaps. Modernising the application process by implementing screening software eliminates human error, while also giving agencies greater bandwidth. Algorithms can identify experience, skills and traits, while giving back more time to consultants to conduct interviews.
Assigning pay
It’s not always just screening candidates that technology can help with, but also the assignment of correct pay grades to workers. With so many different pay grades, regions, trusts, hospitals and shift patterns, it’s often difficult to manage rates across so many variables. With specific Access healthcare recruitment software, consultants can streamline their temp and permanent placement cycles, allowing agencies to store as many rate frameworks as they like in one centralized area. This technology also connects and integrates with other software such as your website, screening tools and pay and bill to ensure a joined-up process. Frameworks are also updated in a central area, consistently ensuring that pay is allocated with the most recent information.
Staying compliant
The risks in the healthcare industry are far greater than most and therefore compliance really does become a matter of life or death. With changing legislation and public sector laws it’s often difficult to stay abreast of modifications and updates. With Access software all compliance needs are covered, ensuring your healthcare and medical workers have passed the appropriate screening and are suitable and fit to work. The technology allows consultants to quickly perform third party checks, use automated references and ensure that right to work checks have been passed. They would also benefit from our Right to Work mobile app, which gives instant confirmation of the eligibility of workers. With Brexit's imminent changes to policy, its becoming increasingly more necessary to access these checks quickly and efficiently.
Attracting candidates
As mentioned in our recent blog on the difficulties of healthcare recruitment, huge retirement numbers and a candidate driven market means it’s getting increasingly more challenging to find the required workers. With healthcare technology created specifically for the medical industry, it’s easy to create branded websites that guarantee the attraction of candidates. Built-in Google SEO optimization, unlimited job postings, candidate portals and effortless integration with Access Recruitment CRM, consultants can spread their net far wider than traditional methods. Because it exists in such a competitive landscape, healthcare recruitment agencies need to utilize all the tools at their disposal to ensure they’re finding, attracting and quickly onboarding the skilled workers that the NHS and private trusts and hospitals so desperately need.
