Client in the spotlight: Youz Antes
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Yanouk Bierens
Director Legal Counsel
Like many other organisations, Youz Antes is busy looking for new colleagues, but recruiting in mental healthcare comes with its challenges.
Like many other organisations, Youz Antes is busy looking for new colleagues, but recruiting in mental healthcare comes with its challenges.
Youz Antes specialises in addiction care in the Rijnmond, Zuid-Holland Zuid and Zuid-Hollandse Eilanden regions. Like many other organisations, Youz Antes is busy looking for new colleagues, but recruiting in mental healthcare comes with its own set of challenges.
Youz Antes specialises in addiction care in the Rijnmond, Zuid-Holland Zuid and Zuid-Hollandse Eilanden regions. It offers advice and treatment to young people up to and including the age of 23 who have questions or problems relating to substance use, gambling or gaming. Like many other organisations, Youz Antes is busy looking for new colleagues, but recruiting in mental healthcare comes with its own set of challenges. Dénise Kleinekoort, Operations Manager at Youz Antes, explains what those challenges are and how the organisation tackles them.
In general, our search runs through our recruitment team. But since we have several open vacancies and we are a large organisation, I decided to look for extra support alongside the recruitment team in finding suitable candidates. We chose to outsource the work to Pro Contact.
There are simply fewer candidates interested in mental healthcare. It is less well known, and people are somewhat hesitant to work with people with mental health and addiction problems because they are unfamiliar with it. To show students what working in mental healthcare really looks like, we now give guest lectures at schools and make sure we are more visible to schools, for example by organising one-week work placements so students can get to know the sector. That way we show students all the rewarding sides of the work and inspire them to start a course of study in mental healthcare.
We chose interim recruitment. So your team of recruiters searches LinkedIn for suitable candidates and then screens them by phone. That works really well; I notice that fewer and fewer people respond to job adverts and that it works better when candidates are approached proactively in our name. There are so many jobs up for grabs these days that candidates want to feel special. That is why search messages resonate so well nowadays. It is a modern way of recruiting.
The partnership is still ongoing! We are looking for a Practitioner 1, a Systemic Therapist, a Junior Psychologist and a Healthcare Psychologist. We have already hired a Practitioner!
At Youz Antes, interim recruitment made the difference.
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