Recruitment Fair for Health and Social Care Professionals

Welcome to the Recruitment Fair for Health and Social Care Professionals, a globally relevant online course designed for individuals interested in mastering the ever-evolving recruitment process within the healthcare and social care sectors. Whether you're navigating your first job fair, launching a recruitment campaign, or streamlining candidate sourcing in care roles, this course offers a comprehensive and strategic overview of recruitment best practices.

In a sector where staffing demands fluctuate and skilled professionals are in constant demand, effective recruitment is more than matching CVs to roles. It's about aligning values, managing compliance, enhancing candidate experience, leveraging digital platforms, and understanding sector-specific challenges. This course provides a structured, insightful journey through the recruitment cycle from sourcing and shortlisting to onboarding and retention.

You’ll explore core recruitment strategies, employee lifecycle management, human resource planning, virtual interviewing, legal compliance, and more. Along the way, you’ll learn how recruitment influences service delivery in health and social care environments.

Whether you are in HR, line management, or aspiring to enter the healthcare recruitment domain, this course has been created for a global audience—no geographical restrictions, no jargon-laced fluff. Just structured, high-impact learning.

Learning Outcomes

• Understand recruitment models used in healthcare and social care sectors.
• Analyse effective recruitment strategies for global healthcare environments.
• Learn modern methods of candidate sourcing and evaluation techniques.
• Examine HR’s role in structured recruitment and retention planning.
• Explore digital recruitment trends and virtual interview management.
• Apply onboarding principles to improve staff retention and engagement.
  
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  Course Curriculum

Module 01: Introduction to Recruitment Process Model

• Understand recruitment phases in the health and social care sector
• Learn internal vs. external recruitment models
• Explore proactive versus reactive hiring approaches
• Assess the recruitment funnel from vacancy to hire

Module 02: Recruitment Method

• Compare traditional and modern healthcare recruitment strategies
• Explore job boards, CV databases, and social hiring platforms
• Understand referral schemes and partnerships with academic institutions
• Assess job fair effectiveness in care recruitment

Module 03: Human Resource Management

• Understand the HR role in healthcare recruitment campaigns
• Study workforce planning and policy development
• Explore employment legislation and equal opportunity frameworks
• Link recruitment with organisational culture and retention

Module 04: Key Skills and Issues in Recruitment

• Identify core recruitment competencies for HR and hiring teams
• Address common recruitment challenges (e.g. burnout, high turnover)
• Understand unconscious bias and inclusive hiring standards
• Manage expectations in fast-paced care environments

Module 05: Virtual Interviewing

• Set up and run compliant virtual interviews
• Analyse body language and communication cues digitally
• Address accessibility and time-zone considerations
• Use software tools for interview scheduling and candidate assessment

Module 06: Employee On-Boarding

• Design structured onboarding for health and care staff
• Integrate compliance, safety, and training into induction
• Improve early employee engagement and retention
• Monitor feedback and adjust onboarding for continuous improvement
  
  Disclaimer:

This is an online course with pre-recorded lessons. You will get access to the course within 48 hours after your enrolment.