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Jobs for all

Colin Campbell
by Colin Campbell on 10/06/22 18:00

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Last week, for the first time in living memory the amount of job vacancies reported in the UK was higher than the amount of people who are unemployed.

This is an extraordinary and fundamental switch.

At the start of the pandemic there were reported to be something in the region of 375,000 jobs available in the UK and 1.8million people unemployed, last week those paths had crossed.

This hides a whole horror of fundamental problems in society and does not just add up to the ‘there is a job for everyone who wants it’ but it does cause challenges for people trying to sustain a workforce.

Now, the employer perspective employee holds so much in their hands that the conditions and the atmosphere in their employment must get better and better or they will go somewhere else because there are plenty of jobs to go to.

In my own world of dentistry, maintaining people in the roles of reception team or nursing team is likely to get harder and harder and it’s really hard to do dentistry without a receptionist or a nurse.

Firstly, the price will go up but that will only be able to go so far.

If the price goes up much more then the cost of associates has to come down but there are too few associates also.

If the price of associates stays the same (or goes up) and the cost of staff goes up, then the money that the principle makes goes down.

If the money that the principle makes continues to go down, then they will sell the practice if possible.

It means that more and more practices will fall out of independence and the problem with staffing and wages and associates will fall to major organisations.

For progressive independent practices looking at different ways of making it better to work there is beyond a no-brainer and also far from fool proof at maintaining staff particularly as they may leak to other industries.

Putting together benefit packages, examining things like 4 day working weeks (that’s an interesting one) and supporting team members like family members becomes more and more critical.

There will always be people who would like to work as dental nurses and always people who would like to work as receptionists, the question will be are there enough to sustain the boom in private dentistry as people leave the NHS looking for better service and better care in a place where there are simply not enough people to provide it.

 

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