{"id":196,"date":"2021-03-03T20:50:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-03T20:50:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.assistedlivingnetwork.com\/?p=196"},"modified":"2021-04-02T20:50:51","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T20:50:51","slug":"19-how-to-find-great-staff-for-your-residential-assisted-living-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/assistedlivingnetwork.com\/19-how-to-find-great-staff-for-your-residential-assisted-living-home\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Find Great Staff for Your Residential Assisted Living Home"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"How to Find Great Staff for your Residential Assisted Living Home - By Gene Guarino\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UFwa1hYQg1o?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How do you find great staff?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>The key is not just getting a caregiver or a manager, but getting the best ones, the right ones, attracting them, training them, retaining them. You can even interview potential employees through a skype interview. When you ask them questions like, how would you handle this situation? What would you say to this? What do you see as your biggest strength and what do you see as your biggest weakness? What you are looking for is how they respond, as you are looking them in the eye and getting a feel for them, you don\u2019t even need to be in the same room. Do they understand what I\u2019m saying? \u00a0Do they really have a response, are they just making it up?\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>What qualities should the staff have?<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>You are looking for somebody who\u2019s in control, who can take a system and implement it. Somebody who is genuinely nice to their family, to their spouse, their coworkers. If they\u2019re the manager, they need to be fair, but firm with their caregivers underneath them, the managers overseeing them, doing things like hiring and firing, scheduling, giving somebody a day off when they need it or requiring them to take a day off when they need it.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Getting interpersonal.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Those interpersonal relationships are the hardest thing of all to teach and train. We actually do a whole training on how to hire a manager, exactly what to look for and exactly what to avoid. The manager is overseeing the caregivers. There is also the human resource standpoint with those caregivers, finding them, training them or retaining them. But in addition to that there\u2019s filling the home, attracting those new residents to come in, giving tours so that when people come in, they feel good about what they\u2019re seeing and experiencing within the home, taking care of the relationships between the family and the caregivers.\u00a0They have to keep the records, they have to make sure the i\u2019s are dotted and the t\u2019s are crossed, but they understand that the ability to communicate with somebody is more important than just dotting an I or crossing a T, because ultimately we\u2019re dealing with people, and sometimes you can\u2019t satisfy everybody and that\u2019s part of that training as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Staff qualifications.<\/strong>\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>So the caregiver, depending on the state, will have certain qualifications and training that they have to meet and so on. Some states it\u2019s very minimal. In other states it\u2019s much more lengthy. So regardless of what the state requires, we want to make sure that they\u2019re the right person for us, how they treat the resident, how they look for solutions, how they work underneath a manager or if they are the manager, how they work with those caregivers that are underneath them.\u00a0We need good independent contractors with the right attitude, making sure they understand how important it is, what we do and when they\u2019re on the job and on our premise, whether dealing with our residents that they do it with respect, high quality, the best attitude possible. There\u2019s a lot that goes into finding the right people, managers, caregivers. Focus on doing it right the first time.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Be sure to subscribe to our iTunes podcast to listen on the go!<a href=\"https:\/\/itunes.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/assisted-living-networks-podcast\/id1360517721?mt=2\">[CLICK HERE]<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you find great staff?\u00a0 The key is not just getting a caregiver or a manager, but getting the best ones, the right ones, attracting them, training them, retaining them. You can even interview potential employees through a skype interview. When you ask them questions like, how would you handle this situation? 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