Introduction to Personal and Professional Development

PERSONAL AND PROFESSIONAL
DEVELOPMENT
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INTRODUCTION
The below report discusses personal and professional development with respect to St.
Margaret’s Nursing Home. The report starts with a discussion on recruitment and selection of
employees in the organisation along with the aspects of team work among the staff members.
Lastly the factors of employee performance and training and development of employees will be
covered in the report.
TASK 1
1.1 Factors to be considered while planning selection and recruitment in health and social care
There are certain factors which require my attention as a HR officer at St. Margaret’s
Nursing Home so as to plan selection and recruitment of candidates. The first factors that
requires consideration is the objective of recruitment that is to be achieved. The vacancy can be
generated because of retirement of an employee, new job role or career advancement etc. If there
is a new job role then the job description and person specification has to be clear with the
recruiters before planning the recruitment. The recruitment can then be carried out from within
or outside the nursing home i.e. the HR team has to be open to both internal and external
recruitment.
1.2 The influence of legislative and policy frameworks of UK on selection and recruitment
There are certain acts in the legislation that drive changes in the selection and recruitment
of workforce all over UK. The major acts that influence selection and recruitment procedure in
the nursing home are Equality Act 2010, Employment rights Act 1996, and the Race Relations
Act 2000. All the above acts are relevant but the act causing the most difference is the Equality
Act 2010 as it is meant for providing legal protection to the working class population of UK
from discrimination and other unhealthy work practices.
1.3Approaches that are used for recruitment and selection of best candidates in the organisation
The traditional approach of selection and recruitment is the submission of CV by
interested individuals; selection of promising CVs by HR team; conducting interviews of
selected candidates; grading the answers of the interviewees with marks; selection of the
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