Pension topic
Mobility is too big to keep people old care workers eagerly looking forward to "blood transfusion"
[Realistic Challenge] Elderly care workers face the dilemma of unstable team and high mobility due to long working hours, high labor intensity, low social recognition, poor wages and other reasons
[Response strategy] Relevant government departments have issued a series of policy opinions, raising skills, lowering thresholds, and rewards for fresh graduates entering the job market to encourage more people to engage in the elderly care service industry
With the aging of the population intensifying, the number of disabled, demented, living alone, and elderly people is increasing. The social demand for elderly care personnel is increasing, and it has gradually become a hot emerging industry.
However, the shortage of elderly care personnel is still a common problem faced by elderly care services.
At present, there is a huge demand for elderly care in Beijing. How can talents stay in the elderly care?
High labor intensity and life pressure
Elderly care workers in the dilemma of "low distribution"
“I’m from a rural area and I don’t have much culture. I have been farming at home in the past. I came to Beijing for 8 years and changed 3 jobs. I have been a caregiver for the elderly for 4 years.” 55-year-old Liu Shiying (pseudonym) is now a veteran of a family in Beijing. An elderly care worker in an institution.
Before engaging in the elderly care service industry, she did not have much experience in caring for the elderly.
Before entering the job, she conducted pre-job training. After the training was passed, she was mainly responsible for caring for the elderly who were semi-self-care and completely unable to take care of themselves.
"Caring for the elderly is still quite tiring. Feeding, turning over, scrubbing the body, and cleaning up and defecate are all things we have to do every day. Sometimes when an elderly person is in a bad mood, he will suddenly yell at him, and we can only endure it. "After four years of work, Liu Shiying is one of the few old employees.
She said that the board and lodging are solved by the company, and the monthly salary is about 3,200 yuan, which is a high salary in this elderly care institution.
However, this "high salary" is all hard money. Liu Shiying said that there are basically no holidays or eight hours for work, and rest can only be leisure.
Since October last year, her physical condition is getting worse and worse. I don't know how long she can stay in this industry.
"There are currently 135 elderly people in our institution, of which 58 are able to take care of themselves, 41 are nursing-type elderly, and the remaining 36 elderly are demented elderly. These elderly people are relatively difficult to care for, and the intensity is also high. Big." Sun Hongxin, assistant manager of the health service department of Chunxuanmao Senior Apartment, Beiyuan, is a native of Huairou District, Beijing. He was born in 1996 and has been engaged in nursing care for three and a half years. He is already considered an "veteran" in this senior apartment. .
He said that although he majored in “Elderly Service and Management”, he was still very unaccustomed to this job. He had to take care of unfamiliar old people’s food, drink and sleep in every detail. Everyone needs to adapt.
The Chunxuanmao Elderly Apartment in Beiyuan, where Sun Hongxin is located, currently has 60 elderly caregivers, of which 60% are young elderly caregivers, 40% are elderly caregivers in their 40s and 50s, and the monthly salary of frontline caregivers is about 4,000 yuan.
Sun Hongxin said that although the board and lodging of the nursing staff are borne by the institution, the current salaries of the nursing staff are still low overall and the living pressure is relatively high.
Even so, as a young force in elderly care institutions, he is full of hope for the prospects of elderly caregivers. "The job of elderly caregivers is very hard, but I will stick to it and try my best to make the elderly live more comfortable and dignified."
Lack of quantity and “quality”
Elderly talents are lost as soon as they graduate
In recent years, in order to provide higher-quality services to the elderly, the professional requirements of nursing staff have become higher and higher.
At the same time, due to long working hours, high labor intensity, low social recognition, poor wages, low occupational security, and high employment risks, many elderly care service organizations have unstable and highly mobile nursing staff, and they are facing difficulties in recruiting. The dilemma of reaching people and not keeping people.
Among the more than 900 elderly care service stations in the city, many staff have begun to play the role of caregivers due to the lack of professional elderly care staff.
"Post-95" Beijing girl Zhou Xiaowei, after graduating in 2016, came to work in an elderly care service station in Haidian District. She has been working for more than four years, often holding several jobs.
"Our school's'Elderly Service and Management' major was in one class at that time, with more than 30 students in each class, and less than 10 people were still engaged in professional-related work after graduation. If this counts down, our class will be engaged in this major after graduation Less than one-third of the number of people.” Zhou Xiaowei said, “There is a female classmate who works as a caregiver in an elderly care institution. She left after working for more than a year. Because she was too tired, she always had to work night shifts. How long did it take to suffer from lumbar disc herniation." Zhou Xiaowei's tone was a little helpless when talking about the work of the students.
Zhou Xiaowei has been working in the post for more than four years and has always hoped that relevant departments can pay more attention to the elderly service staff in the post.
"Although the work intensity of the pension service staff in the pension station is not as high as that of other pension institutions, the treatment and stability are not as good as the institutions. I hope to pay more attention to the pension service staff in the pension station and provide us with more training and learning opportunities."
It is understood that Beijing has been taking action to inject youthful blood into the elderly care industry. In recent years, some colleges and universities have opened senior service majors, and the elderly care staff has begun to appear younger.
In addition, the city has issued many policies in recent years to improve the professionalism of senior care service personnel.
Improve skills and lower the threshold
Policy support to increase career attractiveness
"The development of any industry is inseparable from the construction of a talent team. In the process of visits and communication in recent years, we have found that the problem of talent has become a bottleneck restricting the development of many institutions." Li Dong, secretary general of the Beijing Senior Care Industry Association, said that at present Beijing's senior care service talent team generally presents the characteristics of "three lows and three highs": low social status, low income treatment, low educational level and high mobility, high labor intensity, and high average age.
In order to solve the problem of a large shortage of elderly service talents, relevant government departments have issued a series of policy opinions to encourage more people to engage in the elderly service industry.
Skills and skills requirements are "ascending", and the entry threshold is "declining".
At the end of last year, the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security and the Ministry of Civil Affairs jointly promulgated the "National Vocational Skills Standards for Elderly Care Workers (2019 Edition)", which adjusted the "general education level" of practitioners from "junior high school graduation" to "no Educational requirements"; it is clear that candidates who have not obtained a primary school graduation certificate can use oral examinations for theoretical knowledge examinations, mainly to assess the basic requirements and relevant knowledge requirements that practitioners should master in their occupations; in order to meet the needs of home and community pensions, in various occupations The skills requirements for elderly care workers in home and community services are added to the levels; attention is paid to the care needs of the elderly with dementia, and "dementia care" is included in the job content and skill requirements of each occupational level.
This year, the Beijing Municipal Bureau of Civil Affairs issued the Implementation Measures for the Training and Training of Talents for Elderly Care Services in Beijing (Draft for Solicitation of Comments), and it has just concluded the work of collecting opinions from the society. Several clear economic incentives are expected.
For example, the entry rewards proposed for the national recruitment of Beijing students or the recent graduates of ordinary colleges and vocational schools in the Beijing area and the previous graduates within one year of graduation, who enter the city’s elderly care service institutions full-time engaged in elderly care services , A one-time entry bonus will be issued in three years from the one-year entry.
In terms of the amount of money, undergraduate students and above can get 60,000 yuan, junior college (higher vocational) 50,000 yuan, and secondary vocational 40,000 yuan, which are distributed in proportions of 30%, 30%, and 40% of the total each year.
At the same time, the first-line elderly care service incentive allowance of 1,000 yuan per person per month will be issued to the elderly care workers who work in the frontline. The incentive allowance is issued directly to the elderly care workers by the district civil affairs bureau based on the registration information of the municipal social welfare comprehensive management platform. , To enhance the sense of gain among practitioners.
Text/Mu Qing Zhang Ti