Mid-Career Entrants in Non-Nursing Roles

24 February 2024

NOTICE PAPER NO. 2612
NOTICE OF QUESTION FOR ORAL ANSWER
FOR THE SITTING OF PARLIAMENT ON 28 FEBURARY 2024

Name and Constituency of Member of Parliament
Ms See Jinli Jean
Nominated MP

Question No. 5779

To ask the Minister for Health for each year over the last three years (a) what is the number of mid-career entrants who took up non-nursing roles at senior or ageing care facilities via Government-funded career programmes; (b) what is the retention rate of the mid-career entrants; and (c) what measures will the Ministry be introducing to improve the retention rate.

Answer

     Between 2021 and 2023, about 1,400 individuals joined the community care sector in non-nursing jobs every year, including through schemes such as the Community Care Manpower Development Award and the Senior Management Associate Scheme for the training and induction of mid-career entrants into management positions.  

2     We do not track the retention rate for this group.  To retain staff, the Ministry of Health and the Agency for Integrated Care have been working with Community Care Organisations to implement job redesign, enhance the competitiveness of community care staff salaries, and recently published salary guidelines which would help inform job seekers on the expected remuneration in community care roles.