The recruitment and retention of skilled and effective workers is critical to an organization’s ability to provide quality services. This is an area of workforce development that has traditionally challenged the substance abuse field, where high turnover rates, particularly among front-line staff, are common. In this section, you will find resources on recruitment and retention that can help organizations to seek and attract new staff, and to maintain staff satisfaction over the long term.
Resources
Workforce Development ‘TIPS’ - Theory Into Practice Strategies: A Resource Kit for the Alcohol and Other Drugs Field. Chapter 10: Recruitment and Selection [PDF]
The techniques and strategies described in this chapter represent evidence-based best practice. Some of the information provided in this chapter will be familiar to many readers. However, it can serve as a resource to refresh knowledge, review current practice, and to identify useful new practices or techniques.
Published: 2005
Source: National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
Website: www.nceta.flinders.edu.au
Language: English only
Workforce Development ‘TIPS’ - Theory Into Practice Strategies: A Resource Kit for the Alcohol and Other Drugs Field. Chapter 11: Retention [PDF]
This Resource Kit aims to provide straightforward and practical guidance, tools and resources to support workforce development activities and initiatives in the Alcohol and Other Drugs (AOD) field.
Published: 2005
Source: National Centre for Education and Training on Addiction (NCETA)
Website: www.nceta.flinders.edu.au
Language: English only
Optimizing Canada’s Addiction Treatment Workforce: Results of a National Survey of Service Providers [PDF]
Results of a mail survey of executive directors or agency heads, and staff of specialized substance abuse treatment agencies and services conducted during May–November 2004.
Published: 2005
Source: Canadian Centre on Substance Abuse
Website: www.ccsa.ca
Language: English and French
Drug Service Policies Series: No. - 4 Recruitment and Retention [PDF]
This briefing outlines good practice and current legislation with regard to recruitment and retention of employees in drug treatment services. It covers the process of writing job descriptions and person specifications, and advertising for, interviewing and selecting a successful candidate.
Published: 2004
Source: National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse (NTA)
Website: www.nta.nhs.uk
Language: English only