In nursing homes, smooth interview scheduling isn’t just convenient, it’s critical for business continuity. Scheduling interviews can be a thorny, time-consuming task for any sector, but for nursing homes, whose staffing levels are in constant flux, streamlined interview scheduling is vital for patient care.
Manual scheduling of interviews often involves numerous calls, emails and (at least) three-way consultation to find convenient slots. The admin load of this job alone can dominate your hiring team’s day.
But use a streamlined, flexible and intuitive interviewing platform and suddenly all that scheduling admin can be ticked off your to do list. Freeing you up to take a more proactive and strategic approach to hiring.
Interested? Here’s some more information on how nursing homes can harness the power of Reach ATS for effortless interview scheduling:
Streamlined scheduling
Whether you’re hiring one registered nurse, 6 care support workers, or twenty catering staff across a six-home hub, Reach enhances your entire hiring process.
From performing a first sift of applications to support interview shortlisting to automatic reference collection and integration with third party background checks, Reach ATS has been designed to simplify and expedite your recruitment.
Hiring Managers can post their interview availability via our smart Hiring Manager Portal. Candidates who’ve been successfully shortlisted can then choose a slot convenient to them from the range on offer.
Reach lessens everyone’s admin load. Wave goodbye to the endless back and forth confirming interview slots. Your candidate receives instant confirmation of the slot they’ve booked, full information on how to attend the interview (whether that’s online or face to face) and any interview notes required.
And to ensure no one misses their appointment, all interviewees are sent timely reminders, reducing the likelihood of missed interviews and expediting the entire interview process.
No one slips through the (interview scheduling cracks) with Reach ATS.
Reach ATS is designed to grow with your business, scaling to fit your hiring needs. When hiring across multiple homes or indeed at volume, it can be easy to lose track of each candidates’ progress.
Reach’s smart software gives your oversight of all live vacancies at a glance with its intuitive dashboard. It allows you to automate your hiring process and candidate communications, and offers a full audit trail, allowing you to track candidates by role, location or stage.
By automating and tracking the hiring process, you can spot skills gaps before they appear, ensure no candidate slips through the cracks in an understandably busy process and enhance your recruitment strategy with data-informed decision making.
An enhanced candidate experience in a competitive hiring landscape.
Fully optimised for all devices with logins via socials, Reach’s smart software provides a level-playing field for applicants with its intuitive Candidate Portal:
- Complete applications over multiple session
- Easy document uploads
- Full integration with pre-employment check software (DBS, Right to Work etc.)
- Flexible interview slot booking
- Regular automated communications, alerts and reminders
Our smart software guides candidates through the entire application process from application to interview, contracts to onboarding. Offering stress free hiring for all.
Adaptable interview scheduling to reflect ever-changing staffing needs
As much as it would be lovely to have a cast-iron strategy in place for your nursing home hiring, we all know that an unexpected role vacancy can easily spoil the best plans.
Reach’s flexible software allows you to react quickly when your staffing needs change. We offer a quick apply feature for those really urgent roles, and a fully customisable application process allows you to use disqualifier questions to speed up the application process and funnel suitable candidates straight through to the interview stage.
Keeping on the right side of compliance
Complying with industry specific rules and regulations is vital for the nursing home industry. Reach ATS allows you to ensure you are fully compliant with regulations throughout your interview process:
- Fair collection and processing of data in compliance with GDPR (or the equivalent worldwide)
- Care Quality Commission compliant background checks, automatic reference collection and skills/qualification checks with full audit trail
- A fair and non-discriminatory recruitment process in accordance with the Equality Act including a ‘blind’ shortlisting feature
- Easy integration with third party pre-employment checks such as DBS and Right to work
With the ability to run all pre-employment and skills checks in tandem with your interview scheduling process, Reach not only streamlines your recruitment but ensures a robust and fair hiring process.
Increasing internal collaboration
Scheduling interviews for nursing homes often involves a number of internal colleagues working together. We’ve already touched on how Reach ATS can help enhance internal collaboration with scheduling interviews, but that’s only the start of what Reach can do.
Once you’ve selected your interview panel, your HR team can share candidate cards and standard interview questions with your recruitment managers. Colleagues can also familiarise themselves with all shortlisted candidates prior to interview through the Hiring Manager Portal. With task alerts and event notifications, your colleagues can add and share candidate notes or queries and invite other colleagues to collaborate.
Once interviews have been completed, Hiring Managers are able to share scorecards, make job offers and feedback directly to applicants. Giving them full oversight and control of their own interview scheduling process.
Simplify the process, speed up your hiring.
Nursing homes face a particular set of challenges which are unique to their industry. With chronic skills shortages, high turnover rates, a growing use of international staff and the need to attract the younger generation into the sector, it’s never been more important to have a sleek and streamlined recruitment process.
Interview scheduling can be a particularly sticky, time-consuming part of the hiring process. It can easily absorb a great deal people-hours with its administration. Using Reach ATS not only reduces your time to hire but also your cost-per-hire – particularly valuable when recruiting at scale and high frequency.
If you’d like to know more about how Reach’s interview scheduling platform can help your business, then contact us for a demo today and Reach for a better ATS.