Social care compliance services outfit Quality Compliance Systems (QCS) has launched a survey to understand the workforce challenges faced by the sector.
The Building a Better Workforce Together survey aims to find out what keeps people working in the sector and the ‘pain-points’ that put them at risk of leaving.
QCS also aims to find out what improvements could be to make the jobs easier of social care staff who choose to stay.
The results of the survey, which will be published before the end of the year, will help QCS to form an accurate picture of the sector and feed into its services.
“Whilst we know that funding is the key to keeping frontline managers in place, it’s just as important to understand the workforce challenges that care settings face. It is only then that we, as a sector, can begin to solve them,” a spokeswoman said.
QCS said over 410,000 care workers left their jobs last year as Covid and Brexit exacerbated perennial recruitment and retention hurdles while government funding to enable care services to increase pay and to support mental wellbeing has failed to materialise.
“With over 130,000 care workers at all levels, across 6,000-plus care providers, who have all chosen Quality Compliance Systems, QCS is in a particularly strong position to take the pulse of the sector,” the spokeswoman added.
The Building a Better Workforce Together survey can be found here: https://survey.alchemer.eu/s3/90398636/QCS-Workforce-Survey-2021.
