The Western Health Nursing and Midwifery Workforce Unit (NMWU) utilises a Centralised Recruitment model for the recruitment of Grade 2 Registered Nurses, Midwives and Enrolled Nurses. The aim of NMWU Centralised Recruitment is to improve the quality and experience of the applicants and the hiring managers, this is achieved through:
- Providing one point of contact
- Development of targeted recruitment strategies,
- Identification of talent
- Coordination of the interview process
- Relationship building
- Processing of successful applicants
Centralised Recruitment provides candidates and hiring managers with one point of contact from sourcing of potential candidates to the completion of the on-boarding process. The Centralised Recruitment team is responsible for all administrative and operational tasks that had previously fell under the responsibility of the Unit Manager, allowing the Unit Manager to focus more of their time and energy towards the needs of their staff and patients in their clinical area.
The Centralised Recruitment team supports the Unit Manager through the recruitment process by ensuring that best practice interview techniques and reference checking platforms are used to expedite a streamlined timeline from recruitment to on-board, however the Unit Manager remains the primary decision maker in shortlisting candidates for interview and selecting those nurses and midwives who are suitable to work at Western Health within their own specialty or area of expertise.
The team has some useful resources aimed at Unit Managers about Centralised Recruitment – from raising a recruitment request to the group interview process and on-boarding.
For any further queries please contact RecruitNMWU@wh.org.au
Resources:
- Recruitment Booklet
- FAQs Centralised Recruitment
- FAQs Group Interviewing
- Group Interview Presentation
- 9 Types of Unconscious Bias and the Shocking Ways They Affect Your Recruiting Efforts
- Why assessments centres are important when recruiting staff