Northern Health recruitment efforts full steam ahead
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PRINCE GEORGE – The list of external job postings for Northern Health is lengthy and challenging for the health provider, and the recruitment efforts never end.
“We continue to struggle to fill registered nurse positions as well as allied health positions, and there’s a number of professions that fall under allied health, including occupational therapists and physiotherapists,” explains Emelye Macfarlane, Regional Manager of Recruitment for Northern Health. “So we continue to maintain a 20 percent vacancy rate, which we are quite happy with. The fact that we continue to maintain that level. But we do want to see that level decrease over the next year.”
Northern Health’s footprint is 600,000 square kilometers in size, roughly the size of France, with a number of smaller satellite communities peppered across the health authority. That poses one of the largest challenges.
