Posted Sep 30, 2022 12:24 PM
Faced, like its peers, with recruitment difficulties, the Angers University Hospital launched in June a plan to attract and retain caregivers. Three months later, the Angevin establishment reports a “first satisfactory assessment”. On September 19, the CHU had 23 nursing positions available against 31 at the end of June. In addition, 85 nurses, specialist nurses, caregivers and childcare auxiliaries out of 88 have chosen to remain in post at the CHU after their summer contract.
The first part of this plan aims to reduce the period during which professionals work as contract workers before being able to join the public hospital service. Paramedical staff and midwives, hitherto on contract and occupying vacant posts as civil servants, are thus immediately offered the possibility of benefiting from the status. It begins with a one-year probationary period, which culminates in tenure. “From now on, the proposals for internships are made to the agents over the water and no longer in waves as was the practice before”, he explains. Thus, since the beginning of 2022, nearly 300 internships have been started or are in progress.
Salary revaluation
The other actioned component is the upgrading of the treatment of contract caregivers. As of July 1, 2022, nearly 200 of them, occupying replacement jobs, have benefited from it. Other measures include an extension of recruitment contracts, with new paramedics taken on during a summer replacement now benefiting from a contract of at least 6 months. In addition, the CHU d’Angers collaborates with an online housing platform, reserved for professionals of the establishment.
To retain hospital staff, the establishment signed an agreement with two trade unions (CFTC and CFDT), to add 30 additional positions to hospital teams dedicated to replacements. “The objective is no longer just to respond to the replacement of unexpected absences, it is also a question of facilitating departures for training, tutoring times or the acquisition of particularly technical skills”, specifies the management, which also points out facilitated professional promotion within the establishment (55% of the training budget is dedicated to it) and the development of apprenticeship. About ten apprentices, working as nursing assistants or medical electroradiology manipulators, are currently welcomed at the Angers University Hospital.
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