If you manage a medical practice, you already know how difficult it can be to attract and retain qualified staff.

If you own or manage a medical practice you’ll already appreciate how difficult it can be to attract and retain qualified staff. As you well know, the world of healthcare can be a rewarding career for the right person, but it can also be stressful and both physically and emotionally demanding.

To make things even more challenging, practices face growing competition for experienced staff and demand is set to increase. As demand grows it will become even more difficult to find and engage top talent for your practice. After all, attracting and retaining qualified and compassionate healthcare support staff is about more than filling open positions.

Here are some tips you can use to find qualified employees to help your medical practice grow…

The demand for experienced healthcare support staff is large and growing fast. Educational institutions everywhere have taken notice. From private colleges and universities to the local TAFE, educational institutions everywhere have been designing courses and training the next generation of healthcare support staff.

Teaming up with those educational institutions is a great way to find candidates who are passionate about what they do and anxious to put their newly acquired skills to work in the real world. Some of these candidates may lack experience but their passion and compassion can more than make up for that.

The medical community is a large one, but it is highly interconnected as well. The colleague you talk to may know someone who has trained as a secretary and is currently seeking new opportunities. A nurse may have a friend who is looking for that next step in their career. This kind of networking is valuable if you are in the market for new staff.

The unemployment rate is decreasing, but that does not mean everyone has the job of their dreams. Even in the strongest economy there are men and women searching for new opportunities and one of the first places they turn is a specialist recruitment firm to provide them with professional representation.

A professional recruiter specialises in matching top quality talent with opportunities where both the employer’s and employee’s criteria are achieved. Partnering with a specialist recruiter you can trust is an excellent way to tap into top talent that your network or advertising can’t reach. It’s called the ‘hidden candidate market’ and it’s often where the best quality candidates are found.

Finding the right employees is always a challenge and sourcing, engaging and vetting candidates for a position within a medical practice is complex and time consuming. The tips above can help you find the best qualified staff for your practice -- health industry professionals who bring their caring, experience and passion to every patient they serve.

If you’re looking for outstanding medical practice staff or are thinking of making a transition yourself, please speak to Simonne Sigston on 03 9946 7328 or email info@practicemanagersaustralia.com.au.