Managing Human Resources in Health and Social Care: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing Human Resources in H&SC

Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
1.1 Explain the factors to be considered when planning the recruitment of individuals to work in
health and social care.......................................................................................................................5
1.2 Explain how relevant legislative and policy frameworks of the home country influence the
selection, recruitment and employment of individuals (M1)...........................................................6
1.3 Evaluate different approaches that may be used to ensure the selection of the best individuals
for work in health and social care (M1 and D1)..............................................................................6
Task 2...............................................................................................................................................6
2.1 Explain theories of how individuals for work in health and social care....................................6
2.2 Evaluate approaches that may be used to develop effective team working in health and social
care (D1)..........................................................................................................................................6
Task 3...............................................................................................................................................6
3.1 Explain ways in which the performance of individuals working in health and social care can
be monitored....................................................................................................................................6
3.2 assess how individual training and development needs can be identified (D2)........................6
3.3 Analyse different strategies for promoting the continuing development of individuals in the
health and social care workplace (D3).............................................................................................6
Task 4...............................................................................................................................................6
4.1 Explain theories of leadership that apply to health and social care workplace (350)................6
4.2 Analyse how working relationships may be managed (300).....................................................6
4.3 Evaluate how own development has been influenced by management approaches
encountered in own experience (D3) (350).....................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Reference list...................................................................................................................................8

Introduction
Nowadays, health care sector is facing a major shift in organisational structure, management and
functions. In order to drive a health care organisation, health care management has to face
number major challenges. In order to mitigate those challenges, it is essential to consider the
importance of human resource management in health care sector. On the other hand, the
management of health care organizations also needs to consider effective recruitment, training
and development and close supervision on the performance of the health care profession within a
health care organisation in order to improve the performance of health care organisations. Health
care organisations play a major role in conserving public health in a country. Hence, health care
management needs to take concern in terms of giving the most efficient health care service in
terms of speedy recovery of the patients. It is highly important for the health care organisations
to care the emotion and safety needs of the employees. On the other hand, waste management
also needs to be a vital concern in terms of avoiding excessive costs of health care management.
Hence, this assignment focuses on describing the importance of human resource management in
health care sector based on the given case of a London nursing home.
In the nursing home of Central London, there has not been effective communication between the
staffs and other health care professionals. On the other hand, in that organisation there has also
not been an effective human resource management (HRM). Hence, the health care organisation
has been facing challenges like high employee turnover, poor employee performance, lack of
guidelines, inadequate supervision, lack of care in maintaining proper satisfaction standards and
protocol. Hence, the organisation cannot be capable to satisfy the needs and desires of patients
and their families. Hence, the management of health care organisation has been started receiving
a number of complaints from the families of patients. The objective of this assignment is to
evaluate how overall performance of the organisation can be increased.

Task 1
1.1 Explain the factors to be considered when planning the recruitment of individuals to
work in health and social care
In order to drive a health care organisation in the most effective way, it is essential to engage the
best health care professionals in the organisational workforce. Recruitment is considered as one
of the most important responsibilities of human resource management. Hence, in order to
conduct effective recruitment, it is highly necessary for a health care organisation to consider
effective human resource department. On the other hand, strategic planning for effective
recruitment is also necessary to take into account. In order to conduct effective recruitment, a
health care organisation needs to give advertisement for their requirements. Hence, HRM of a
health care organisation needs to pay concern in terms of developing job role and person
specification. According to Almajali et al. (2016), job role is regarded to define the
responsibilities of a person in a particular post within an organisation. On the other hand, person
specification is reliable to spell what skills and competencies are required to have in terms of
being eligible to apply for a particular job role within an organisation (Arnaboldi et al., 2015).
For every organisation, including health care organisations requires in defining job role and
person specification clearly. It will help health care organisations to draw the attention of the
potential people in terms of recruiting for a particular post within a health care organisation. It is
necessary to take into account that in the United Kingdom to work as a nurse, it is necessary to
have registration in the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) (Baum, 2016). Hence, for
recruiting nurse in a health care organisation, HRM of a health care organisation requires to
verify the job applicants in the post of nurse has registration at NMC or not. The untrained nurse
is not capable to give adequate care to the patients. In order to fill up the other vacancies in
health care sector, a health care organisation requires to consider that the people have a minimum
knowledge about hospital management or not. The vital concern for effective recruitment in
health care organisation needs to consider training and development planning for the new hires.
For conducting effective training, it is essential for a health care organisation to have effective
trainers and training resources. The cost of new recruitments is also necessary to include in the
recruitment plan.