This year International Human Resources Day is being celebrated on Friday 20 May.
International Human Resources (HR) Day is an opportunity to recognise of all the hardworking HR and recruitment professionals around the world.
Recruitment website, s1jobs.com, paid testament to HR teams across Scotland’s territorial and specialist health boards for their efforts, by awarded them with the Chairman’s Award at the firm’s recent awards ceremony.
Gavin Mochan, managing director of s1jobs.com, described the HR and recruitment teams as ‘the heroes behind our carers’ and thanked the teams for their hard work, putting ‘patients before yourself.’
Kay Sandilands, NHS Lanarkshire director of human resources, said: “We are delighted that Scotland’s NHS human resources and recruitment teams were honoured for their valuable input helping to significantly increase our health workforce to support efforts during the pandemic.
“The coronavirus pandemic has been a challenge like no other and our HR and recruitment teams across Scotland have gone the extra mile to find the right people to support our efforts.”
At points during the pandemic, teams were working seven days per week and it’s estimated that NHS Scotland HR and recruitment teams sifted just under one million applications, dealing at any one time with over 5,000 job vacancies.
Kay added: “Within NHS Lanarkshire specifically, during 2021/22 we recruited an additional 4000 staff. We also introduced a range of additional services to maintain and enhance staff wellbeing to help them through the pandemic.”
