REDUCE AGENCY SPEND ON SOCIAL CARE RECRUITMENT

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REDUCE AGENCY SPEND ON SOCIAL CARE RECRUITMENT
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Let OUTT show you how to reduce agency spend on
social care recruitment control your agency
staffing budget, reduce costs, and streamline
your Rota!   Agency staff are the backbone of
the social care sector, providing vital support
for care homes and social care organizations that
need to fill urgent vacancies quickly. Contingent
workers are usually able to respond fast to staff
shortages, provide cover for holidays and
sickness absences, and plug gaps in the workforce
when crucial short staffing can be a crisis for a
health and social care recruitment agencies
facility.   However, the costs of advertising,
interviewing, recruiting and conducting right to
work checks can put tremendous strain on budgets
and workflows, with workforce managers struggling
to keep up with demand, while retaining high
standards of staffing.   OUTT aims to change the
way recruitment, working, and staff retention is
managed, with a new model created in the wake of
the COVID-19 crisis to address the critical
staffing shortages deepening across the health
and social care jobs sector.
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SOCIAL CARE RECRUITMENT REDUCE AGENCY SPEND
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• The first factor in appointing quality agency
  staff is in recruitment and traditional adverts
  in local press not only cost a fortune, but also
  often fail to engage with the key staff you hope
  to reach.
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• Bland, uninspiring job adverts dont convey the
  value of the opportunities on offer, and so often
  we work with employers who follow the same
  recruitment template, advertised in the same
  places, which hasnt been a successful
  recruitment strategy for many years.
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• Digital recruitment is cheaper, faster, and more
  effective at reaching a younger workforce who
  increasingly look for job opportunities online.
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• Dynamic, exciting adverts that explain what perks
  and benefits you are offering are more likely to
  garner responses than following a traditional
  template.

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• Remember that your recruitment strategy is the
  first impression you make with potential
  applicants, so think about the culture of your
  social care worker organization, and how you want
  that to come across to candidates.
• Dont make a job ad just about what you want from
  an applicant explain what you are offering in
  return.
• Think about your own online presence remember
  that most jobseekers will research your
  organization before applying!
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• In a sector where quality professionals and
  enthusiastic trainees are in high demand, you
  need to stand out from the competition, and
  leverage digital recruitment in a way that
  delivers the response you need, from the
  candidates you want to hear from.
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• OUTT is a next-gen recruitment app connecting
  skilled candidates with quality employers, to
  bridge the gap between workforce demand and
  employer engagement.
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• Having seen the issues with traditional
  recruitment, we have designed a new, digital,
  interactive and comprehensive app that covers
  every aspect of recruitment, in a contemporary
  and streamlined way to make advertising your
  shifts faster and easier advertised directly to
  a pool of vetted, qualified candidates.

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STREAMLINING SOCIAL CARE APPLICATIONS
Once you have addressed your recruitment
strategies, the next step in finding the health
and social care jobs in london staff you need is
in identifying the best way to review
applications, and interview your short-listed
candidates. This process in itself can be
time-consuming, and again, digital innovation is
the key to making the whole task faster and more
effective.
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• Traditional social care recruitment works like
  this
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• You list an ad on a jobs site, or in the local
  press.
• Candidates have to email or post a CV and
  covering letter.
• The workforce manager needs to manually read
  every application.
• Once they have a short-list, they then need to
  contact each individual candidate.
• Candidates must be invited to interview, and then
  the time dedicated to meeting each applicant.
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• When you have an urgent vacancy, or need to cover
  a shift now, this process is unviable, and is
  often an unnecessary strain on health and social
  care agencies that dont have the spare time or
  resources to allocate to recruitment.

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There is a different way!
OUTT offers employers a way to list their shifts,
vacancies and short-term requirements digitally.
Candidates receive direct access to information
about the post, and this can be quickly matched
with skills and qualification requirements,
without the manual vetting process.   Digital
application processes are faster, and more
accessible to modern workforces who want a
one-click solution to sending their details, and
replaces the traditional use of application forms
and CVs that can be extremely difficult to
compare.   The OUTT app is designed for mobiles
and handheld devices, and enables applicants to
apply for shifts, and employers to filter local
candidates and make them an offer, in just a few
clicks.
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REDUCING AGENCY SPEND BUDGETS
Recruitment can be very expensive indeed, and
when you build in the advertising costs, the time
required to interview and vett candidates, and
agency fees, it can be disproportionately
expensive to hire agency staff. That said,
short-term workers are vital to most social care
settings, and so controlling those costs is
essential.   OUTT offers a more cost-effective
solution to traditional recruitment agencies,
both streamlining recruitment and selection
processes, and cutting down on the costs
associated with finding high-quality social care
agency staff.
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• Reach out to professional candidates for any
  variety of job requirements.
• Manage your preferred candidates to choose the
  best applicants, and make instant offers for
  shift cover and positions.
• Access live compliance documentation and receive
  the assurance that OUTT has thoroughly vetted
  every candidate, including right to work checks.
• Upload urgent shift requirements for a rapid
  response from a 24/7 recruitment service.
• Authorize timesheets digitally, reducing time,
  costs and paperwork.
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• Not only is the service cheaper, but more
  efficient in every way.
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• By harnessing digital recruitment and
  applications, you save on the costs of agency
  fees, while also cutting out the time required to
  review CVs, manage communications and carry out
  due diligence checks.

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BALANCING PERMANENT ROLES WITH SHORT-TERM DEMAND
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The other essential factor when looking for
social care staffing is quality.   Quality is
key when it comes to excellent care services,
highly trained staff, and building a reputation
as an outstanding organization. Therefore,
continuity with skill requirements is vital, and
can be a challenge for care home managers to
balance out when looking for short-term agency
staff to complement their existing
workforce.   OUTT also considered this
obstacle, and how we could make it easier for
social care managers to find the staff they are
looking for, and avoid the pitfalls involved in
recruiting permanent or long-term staff who might
turn out not to be the right person for the role.
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• Heres how it works
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• Select candidates who match with your
  requirements from our pool of applicants.
• Offer shifts and placements quickly, with a
  digital offer process.
• Review your staff, and leave feedback on their
  skills, competencies and work.
• If you find the perfect person and want to offer
  them a permanent role, simply make the offer
  through the app!
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• This try before you buy system and review
  option resolves the challenge of finding the best
  quality social care staff and you can assess
  past reviews as left by other employers before
  you decide whether to offer a candidate a shift.
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• By working with agency staff before deciding
  whether to offer a permanent role, you have the
  absolute confidence that you only take on the
  best long-term staff, who you already know
  deliver exactly the standards of care and
  attitude that will fit in seamlessly with your
  workforce.
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• For more information about OUTT, and how we help
  social care employers reduce and manage their
  agency spend, visit us online.

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