Kim Bobo and Marién Casillas Pabellón
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- January 2017
- ISBN:
- 9781501704475
- eISBN:
- 9781501705892
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Cornell University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7591/cornell/9781501704475.003.0008
- Subject:
- Sociology, Occupations, Professions, and Work
This chapter presents guidelines for hiring great staff for your worker center. A worker center’s first hire is usually the director, who then should be authorized to recruit other staff. Sometimes a ...
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This chapter presents guidelines for hiring great staff for your worker center. A worker center’s first hire is usually the director, who then should be authorized to recruit other staff. Sometimes a new center is in the position of being able to hire a couple of new staff members initially. If this is the case, it is best to hire the director first and give him or her the authority to hire the others. The leadership team should seek staff with a set of relevant core values and skills, and then support the person in learning other skills. This chapter offers suggestions for staff recruitment, including the development of staff structure, key values and skills to seek in a candidate, how to help the person get off to a right start, and providing support and keeping your great staff.Less
This chapter presents guidelines for hiring great staff for your worker center. A worker center’s first hire is usually the director, who then should be authorized to recruit other staff. Sometimes a new center is in the position of being able to hire a couple of new staff members initially. If this is the case, it is best to hire the director first and give him or her the authority to hire the others. The leadership team should seek staff with a set of relevant core values and skills, and then support the person in learning other skills. This chapter offers suggestions for staff recruitment, including the development of staff structure, key values and skills to seek in a candidate, how to help the person get off to a right start, and providing support and keeping your great staff.
Richard P. Barth and Bethany R. Lee
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- January 2014
- ISBN:
- 9780199973729
- eISBN:
- 9780199386703
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199973729.003.0004
- Subject:
- Social Work, Children and Families
There is agreement among researchers and policy makers that child welfare services have been slow to effectively implement ESIs. The authors argue that ‘implementation matters’ and present empirical ...
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There is agreement among researchers and policy makers that child welfare services have been slow to effectively implement ESIs. The authors argue that ‘implementation matters’ and present empirical evidence for the impact of high quality implementation on program outcomes. The chapter examines a variety of issues that make implementation a complex and difficult endeavour in child welfare settings. The authors discuss ways to improve implementation through the use of common elements of interventions and supporting planned and appropriate adaptation of interventions in the service setting, as well as utilizing frameworks of implementation to guide implementation efforts. Finally, the authors identify critical components of implementation such as staff recruitment and selection, staff training and support, intervention and related staff evaluation.Less
There is agreement among researchers and policy makers that child welfare services have been slow to effectively implement ESIs. The authors argue that ‘implementation matters’ and present empirical evidence for the impact of high quality implementation on program outcomes. The chapter examines a variety of issues that make implementation a complex and difficult endeavour in child welfare settings. The authors discuss ways to improve implementation through the use of common elements of interventions and supporting planned and appropriate adaptation of interventions in the service setting, as well as utilizing frameworks of implementation to guide implementation efforts. Finally, the authors identify critical components of implementation such as staff recruitment and selection, staff training and support, intervention and related staff evaluation.
