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Hi Jamie welcome to the learning collaborative and we are so excited to have you onboard! I think you bring up an excellent question and it would be great if you could also ask it during the Q&A part of our in-person session because I am sure that others in the cohort may have some great responses or advice. One of my former colleagues is from Bangor and worked for many years in health centers there, so it is great to have someone from Maine in the cohort. One idea that does come to mind, which you may have already done, it fully assessing all of the training programs offered in your area including students who are doing online/distance learning and then reaching out to those schools. Especially in mental health, you may be surprised by how many students are doing their degrees online from schools across the nation and all schools who may be looking for more community partnerships to give their students training opportunities.
Hi everyone! I sent this through an email, but also wanted to post it on the discussion board. As we move into session 3 which focuses on the use of advertising and social media in recruitment, I wanted to open up the opportunity for any of you to submit to us a copy of one of your job postings and we will review it and offer feedback. Because the breadth of knowledge you all bring, I would also like the opportunity to use parts of those postings – with your permission of course – as part of the content being put together for session 3’s presentation. Thank you so much for all of you who submitting a sample job posting. And please know, this is not a requirement just an extra option we wanted to offer. Thanks!
Hi Melinda, so wonderful to have you in this cohort and very excited to have you join us and share your experience as a rural health center. Offering transportation services is one key factor in ensuring that patients get the care they need and it is so great to hear how successful your health center has been in this endeavor. Recruitment and retention is definitely time consuming which presents a real challenge, especially to health centers, when time is already so limited. We are hoping that by the end of the learning collaborative we can look at how to be proactive in these endeavors to cut down on the time spent preparing for retention and recruitment.
Hi Francesca, welcome to the cohort and so excited to have you onboard! Finding clinicians who have the cultural background/knowledge and language skills is a very common challenge we hear about. I know other fellow cohort members are facing similar barriers. We will definitely talk more about this throughout the learning collaborative and hopefully share ideas with each other to help strengthen the recruitment and retention efforts of a diverse staff.
Hi Dani, welcome and so excited to have you as part of this cohort! In our second session we’ll be talking more about having the workforce reflect the patient population and it is definitely complex because you also need to find the candidates that match your population. Please bring your questions and experiences to today’s session and I think it will be a great conversation!
Hi Susan, welcome to the learning collaborative and so excited to have you onboard! The problem you bring up about clinicians leaving after receiving their supervision hours is definitely one that we hear about quite frequently. This is another topic we’ll address in the learning collaborative because retention is just as crucial as recruitment. Hopefully we can all share ideas of what has worked and what hasn’t in order to increase the retention of providers.
Hi Kristina,
We are so excited to have you on board for this learning collaborative! It is wonderful that you are using the PCBH model of care and it is such a natural fit into the health center model. I do agree about the complexities of supervising newer clinicians who are still figuring out their practice model. I think this is a great discussion to bring into the live sessions.
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MichelleWelcome everyone! We are very excited to get this Recruitment Boot Camp started. Please use this space to access the learning collaborative materials and to share information with your fellow cohort members. If you have any questions, all feel free to reach out at “info@chcworkforce.org” or mfernandez@clinicians.org. Thanks, Michelle
Hi everyone, here is the link to accessing the resource I mentioned yesterday, “Building an Inclusive Organization Toolkit” – https://chcworkforce.org/web_links/building-an-inclusive-organization-toolkit/ – it includes links to the organizations I mentioned that are good places to promote your job announcements when seeking a more diverse and inclusive pool of candidates.