Employers
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This video about careers ambassadors will give you ideas about how to attract people with the same values as your organisation.
In the video, ambassadors for careers in care talk about their experiences of engaging with young people, who often have great values and bring a new energy to workplaces. They encourage employers to work with schools and colleges to change perceptions from an early age so more young people see social services as a rewarding career choice. Registering with the SSSC is seen as positively helping young employees see they are joining a profession where they can gain qualifications and enjoy a varied career path. You can also get tips on how to attract people to work for you in the ‘Other suggestions for attracting workers’ tool. If you are looking to recruit from specific groups read ‘Effective ways of communicating to target demographic groups’ and ‘Attracting and engaging women returning to the workforce’. You can use this guide to show how you can embed values in your job descriptions. This video case study shows how one organisation, ELCAP, does this in a way that makes people who use their services a vital part of how they recruit. The video also shows how ELCAP has been innovative in their recruitment and helped reduce staff turnover.
All recruitment must comply with equalities legislation to make sure it is fair and does not discriminate. Your organisation may have human resource specialists who are able to guide you. However, if you don’t, you might find it helpful to read The Equality Act 2010 – guidance for employers, or visit the Equality Act Guidance page on the Equalities and Human Rights Commission website. Also for most roles, you will need to ensure that anyone who is going to work with people using services does not have anything in their history that would make them unsuitable or may pose a risk. You can find out more information about this by visiting Disclosure Scotland on the mygov.scot website. You will find more information about how to recruit the right people at the Safer Recruitment Through Better Recruitment page in the Care Inspectorate resource hub.
Another way you can support new workers to explore how their values fit with your organisation’s values is to use the Continuous Learning Framework (CLF). All workers can use the personal capabilities to identify strengths and aspects that need development and can use this to agree a development plan with their managers. New workers may find this particularly helpful as they can use the personal capabilities to explore how their current behaviours support the organisation’s values.
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