Promoting Opportunities for Inclusion in Social care Employment (POISE)
The partnership aims to explore staff recruitment and retention issues in the care sector in Northern Ireland focussing initially on the North Down and Ards/North and West Belfast areas with a view to mainstreaming its findings throughout Northern Ireland.
The partnership will work collaboratively to review practices relating to the recruitment and retention of staff in the care sector focussing on equal opportunity issues.
The project objectives will include the development of measures to combat attitudes that inhibit women’s entry to and progression within the labour market;
- working with employers to adopt working practices that enable women to progress within employment;
- measures to encourage men and women to enter professions in which they are traditionally underrepresented; and
- Facilitation of unemployed people and school leavers to join the care workforce.
Development Partnership Members:
POISE is a member of the Balance Partnership Transnational Partnership which also includes partners in:
Contact:
Mariead Magill
ARC NI
43 Marsden Gardens
Cavehill Road
Belfast
BT15 5AL
Tel: +44.(0)28.9075 1454
Fax: +44.(0)28.9020 9300
E-mail: mairead.magill@caresector.net
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