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Recruitment and Retention in Rural and Remote Regions - Reflections, Tips, and Best Practice

October

29

@

9.00am - 10.00am (AEST)

Online via Zoom

We will cover:

Sourcing and Attraction - how do we find high potential care and support workers and how do we sell the role and the organisation?
Candidate experience - what is the optimum recruitment funnel and what is realistic when time and budget are short?
On-boarding - how can we prevent unnecessary early staff walk-outs?
First 90 days - specific actions to get new starters through this chasm of doom
Retention fundamentals - if we can't compete on pay, how do we maximise job quality and long tenure?

Introducing Neil Eastwood

Neil Eastwood is an international speaker on care worker recruitment and retention and author of ‘Saving Social Care’, now in its second edition with over 10,000 copies sold worldwide.

He is also Founder and CEO of Care Friends, an employee referral app which won the 2023 King's Award for Innovation and operates in the UK and Australia. He was previously a director at a national homecare provider with a bad staff turnover problem. He has been exploring ways to fix it for 15 years.

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