Many positions still remain to be filled in the Bas-Saint-Laurent health network despite the massive hiring of staff, an issue that remains important in the region, according to data obtained by TVA Nouvelles.
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The recruitment and retention of staff is a real problem in the region, while positions must be filled in several job categories, according to the head of the recruitment service of the Integrated Health and Social Services Center (CISSS) of Bas -Saint-Laurent, Isabelle Levesque.
However, the CISSS du Bas-Saint-Laurent had hired 1,952 employees of the 1is June 2020 to February 19, 2021.
“The majority of our hires are a lot of people who applied via Je Contribue to come and help the network during the pandemic,” said Isabelle Levesque.
But 1,153 employees also left their posts during those ten months. Of this number, there are 618 departures in the category of para-technical personnel, auxiliary services and trades, and nearly 140 departures in nursing and cardiopulmonary care personnel.
“The people we hire, unfortunately, they arrive in work teams that are already exhausted”, told TVA Nouvelles the regional president of the Interprofessional Health Federation of Quebec (FIQ) of Bas-Saint-Laurent, Cindie Soucy.
Many employees have also left the health network out of disenchantment, said Yannick Proulx, union advisor for the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE).
“People were extremely disillusioned when they saw that what they were promised was not the case.”
The number of positions to be filled is also higher than that of last summer, when the network was looking for 203 employees last February, including 40 for nursing and cardio-respiratory care, against 138 positions that were vacant in June. 2020, with 33 in nursing and cardio-respiratory care.
However, the FIQ is trying to convince the CISSS du Bas-Saint-Laurent to set up attractive working conditions in order to recruit and maintain the workforce in the region.
“We have been discussing with the CISSS for several years to improve hiring positions,” insisted Mr.me Soucy.
If the positions that attract are always filled quickly, what is offered is not sufficiently attractive to attract labor, added Yannick Proulx.
“The majority of the positions that we have posted in recent years are scraps of positions, or positions with a loose component,” explained the CUPE union advisor.
And the labor shortage that affects all areas does not help the health network, but the fault could not only be put on this situation to explain so many departures and vacant positions, according to several. unions.
“We can’t put it all on the back of the labor shortage, if we offer good working conditions, we will have some, people,” confirmed Cindie Soucy.
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