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Care home manager jobs are more important than ever

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There’s been lots in the headlines about care homes recently, for two reasons. The first is that Southern Cross, a large operator of care homes, is in bad financial straits after falling foul of a problematic business deal carried out some years before. As a result, they may need to sell a large number of properties. You might be forgiven for deciding that care home manager jobs will be decreasing in the near future, along with other such positions (such as nursing home manager jobs) as the sector suffers in difficult economic times. However, whatever difficulties Southern Cross are having are not a good reflection of the state of the sector in general. Home manager jobs will become increasingly important as time goes on, for one simple reason: demand is going up.

The government has described Southern Cross’s issues as a ‘commercial sector problem’ and will not go in to intervene directly – although they comment they are ‘monitoring’ the situation. Discussions with landlords to reduce rent payments are ongoing, and it may well be that the company passes on a proportion of its homes to other businesses. However, in the long run care homes, and the vacancies that go with them, are not under threat. Those that operate under faulty business models will get into trouble, but that is true of any business, especially in a downturn. The second news story explains why this is only a short-term problem. The OECD reported that demographic changes mean that the UK will spend a significantly bigger proportion of its GDP (perhaps twice as much or more in some reports) on elderly care by 2050.

That means more homes, and so more care home manager jobs. A different model might be used in the future – again thanks to awful recent news stories. Nursing home manager jobs could be required for smaller operations, rather than the large institutions currently favoured. Instead, places housing perhaps only a couple of dozen people may become more normal, offering smaller-scale and more local help to those who need it. home manager jobs will be more common, though they may be broader in scope, too. But whatever the landscape of vacancies in the future, the statistics speak for themselves. The country is undergoing significant changes in terms of population distribution, and that will have a huge impact on the delivery of care over the coming years and decades.

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Allied health jobs mirror overall recruitment trends

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Given that the NHS is Britain’s biggest employer (and given it is not the only provider of healthcare, although certainly the biggest by far), it is not surprising that the recruitment of appropriate staff is an enormous task. The simple law of averages dictates that personnel will want to move between posts and, very often, different parts of the country, making finding candidates for allied health jobs an ongoing nightmare for personnel departments in both the NHS and other organisations. Thankfully for both the poor people in personnel and the time-short job-seeker, it is now far simpler to locate anything from jobs in occupational therapy to jobs in radiography, due to two major advances of recent years.

The first of these is, of course, the internet, a tool perfectly designed for the unwillingly-uprooted spouse trawling for jobs in occupational therapy in a new part of the country or the ambitious career-climber, willing to spend hours trawling for career-enhancing jobs in radiography. It’s a far cry from the bad old days when subscribing to the local paper in a far-flung area or numerous telephone calls with several potential new employers was vital if one was to keep afoot of new openings. These days, searches can be precisely tailored and narrowed down to avoid trawling through lists of other allied health jobs in the hunt for the one which will fit a candidate’s qualifications, experience and aspirations.

The other development, which has been mimicked across countless other fields of public service personnel, is the proliferation of specialist recruitment agencies who are usually able to match candidates to openings with more speed and less effort and cost than traditional personnel departments would be able to through traditional advertising. In fact, the growth of these companies, such as About Health Professionals, an off-shoot of the well-regarded Sanctuary Personnel, is inextricably linked with the new ways in which we look for work. Their web-site offers features most of us now take for granted when job-hunting: precise search functions with several different search parameters, e-mail alerts for suitable posts and the option to upload a CV for potential employers to consider.

This also works well, of course, for the departments offering allied health jobs who are far more likely to find a suitable candidate if their jobs in radiography are being scanned by candidates across the country, their search for dieticians is nation-wide with no further effort or expense than if it wasn’t and their jobs in occupational therapy are visible to those who maybe work for a neighbouring PCT but who are keen to move on to the next step in their careers. Given these massive advantages to both job-hunter and employer, It’s hard to remember how anyone managed before!

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