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Level 4 Diploma in Health and Social Care Management

Staff Resourcing and Retention

HSC406 · Resource Management in Health and Social Care — Week 2 of 16

CourseHSC406
Week2 of 16
SemesterII
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This week’s topics

Staff Resourcing and Retention

  1. Recruitment pipelines
  2. Selection methods
  3. Employee turnover analysis
  4. Retention strategies
  5. Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management?
  6. Employee Retention Strategies: Keep Talent not Resignation Letters
  7. Career progression and staff retention

What you will be able to do

  • 2.3 Explain the importance of recruitment and retention of staff.

Activity

Start with this week’s 3 videos, then: Seminar, guided reading and a short written task: explain the importance of recruitment and retention of staff.

Study materials

Videos

  • Recruitment and Selection in Human Resource Management? · YouTube · The HR Hub with Andrea Adams · 16 min · for registered students
  • Employee Retention Strategies: Keep Talent not Resignation Letters · YouTube · The HR Hub with Andrea Adams · 29 min · for registered students
  • Career progression and staff retention · YouTube · NHS England Workforce, Training and Education · 4 min · for registered students

Further resources

  • The Cavendish Review: healthcare assistants and support workers in NHS and social care (2013) · Reading · GOV.UK, report · for registered students
  • Human Resource Management, ch. 4: Recruitment · PDF · Saylor Academy, textbook chapter; pp. 91–124 · for registered students
  • Transformational Leadership and Employee Retention · Reading · Reading, article · for registered students
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Course plan
  • Week 1: Fundamentals of Human Resource Management
  • Week 2: Staff Resourcing and Retention
  • Week 3: Leadership and Management Styles
  • Week 4: Performance Management and Support
  • Week 5: Team Dynamics and Development
  • Week 6: Managing Organizational Change
  • Week 7: Regulatory Frameworks in Care Delivery
  • Midterm: Midterm evaluation
  • Week 9: Inspection and Quality Assurance
  • Week 10: Budgeting and Financial Systems
  • Week 11: Funding Streams and Resource Allocation
  • Week 12: Applying Resource Management in Health and Social Care in p…
  • Week 13: Assignment workshop: research, planning and referencing
  • Week 14: Assignment workshop: drafting, feedback and improvement
  • Week 15: Review and coursework completion
  • Final: Final assessment and submission
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