Northern Health has a new recruitment plan
PRINCE GEORGE – Northern Health has released its latest recruitment and retention plan, which identifies seven disciplines that will merit special attention. They are: Register Nurses. Licence Practical Nurses, health care assistants, physiotherapists, occupational therapists, sonographers and pharmacy technicians.
Northern Health says says some of those professionals are in short supply across the province, but Pharmacy Technicians are a need unique to Northern Health because iof the team-based delivery model in local health care.
“When we’re looking at our compliment of professionals and when we’re looking at primary care teams, for example, where they would add that,” explains Sandra Rossi, the Regional Director for Recruitment for Northern Health.
The BC Nurses Union applauds Northern Health’s efforts, but says there needs to be greater emphasis on retention. “