They are between 18 and 50 years old, come from the world of industry, crafts, personal services, and develop the same desire: to become caregivers. Thursday, they were twenty-eight to have started a new qualifying training of nursing assistants set up by the SOS Group and its Ifas (training institutes of nursing assistants) of Saint-Avold and Mont-Saint-Martin , in collaboration with Pôle emploi, the local Mission, the École de la 2e Chance and the Private Health Sector Skills Operator (OPCO Santé). This training, which takes place at the IUT of Thionville-Yutz, will last four months and will be followed by another 18-month course under an apprenticeship or professionalization contract.
With the aim of easily securing a place in an SOS Group establishment. For the latter, moreover, the initial question was the following: what should an association managing hospitals and establishments for the accommodation of dependent elderly people (Ehpad) do, which wants to recruit qualified nursing assistants? Turn to the schools that train these professionals, or to Pôle emploi, the local Mission and Cap emploi?
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A win-win project
In both cases, the chances of success are not there. Katia Jung, director of Ifas de Saint-Avold, explains: “Together, with our partners, we set up this Operational Preparation for Individual Employment, which provides a jobseeker with the skills necessary to occupy a job. job and give him the keys to find a professional project and succeed. The project is intended to be a win-win.
The SOS Group secures the recruitment of motivated and trained people by committing to hire them first on an apprenticeship or professionalization contract. “We have received around sixty requests,” says Katia Jung. “We selected these 28 trainees through a 20-minute telephone interview, focusing our criteria on motivation, life course and professional projects. The trainees are now in a hurry to go to the end, and to provide, on their own scale, a response to the problem of the shortage of caregivers.
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