Day 54: Grow Your Own

In discussion today about how we meet the challenges of recruiting to some of our harder to fill posts.  These include clinical roles that support the front-line delivery of our services.  With an organisation outside of the NHS it is difficult to access funding to support the training, development and backfill costs of trainees.

If we seek to ‘grow our own’ talent, then we must make a compelling offer to them as both a learner and what the employment prospective is post-qualification.  This applies to nursing, psychology, medical specialties, and other roles too.  This will help with recruitment and retention.

Day 49: Talent Management

Interesting discussion today about talent management and where we want to be on the exclusive/inclusive spectrum.  It may seem obvious we should be inclusive, but the problem is when everyone is special, then no-one is.  However, one of Turning Point’s values is “We believe that everyone has the potential to grow, learn and make choices”.

We want to support all our people to achieve their potential.  We also want to identify current and future talent and support the nurturing of this for the benefit of both the individual and the organisation.  These are not mutually exclusive; we can do both.