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Retention
Exploring Effective Retention Strategies
The work relating to retention is focused on providing important insights into factors that influence students and staff leaving health and social care workforce roles. The projects will provide influential evidence to help support future highly effective staff retention strategies. The dissemination of the evidence will enable other organisations to benefit from the new understandings we create together with our partners.
Aim: To explore factors that may enhance the retention of pre-registration and post qualification non-medical health care professionals.
Objectives:
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To develop an understanding of factors that impact on the retention of pre-registration health care students
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To execute projects that positively impact on the retention of pre-registration health care students
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To develop an understanding of factors that impact on the retention of post qualifying staff in health and social care
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To execute projects that positively impact on the retention of post qualifying staff in health and social care
Benefits of this work:
To enhance health and social care environments by use of effective retention strategies for students and staff, including student learners through to legacy career returners, plus those planning for retirement.
Retention Projects:
1: A scoping review of the health and wellbeing strategies that impact on the retention of pre-registration health care students
2: An exploration of the experiences of students using health and wellbeing strategies within Higher Education
3: ‘A Time a Place and a Face’ – a new approach to the placement allocation of Adult Nursing students
4: Professional feedback – an innovation to facilitate self-assessment of professional attributes and behaviours
5: Post qualification staff retention project to start 2024 in health and social care