📋 Tender Overview
Saskatchewan continues to see steady progressive results on its ambitious Health Human Resources HHR Action Plan to recruit train incentivize and retain health care professionals. A total of 161 job offers have been made to Filipino health care workers to join Saskatchewans health care system 138 Registered Nurses 21 Continuing Care Assistants CCAs and two Medical Lab Assistants. One CCA from the Philippines has already started working in Moose Jaw.Saskatchewans targeted health care recruitment mission to the Philippines led by Health Minister Paul Merriman returned home with successful results. Conditional employment offers were made by the Saskatchewan Health Authority SHA to 129 qualified candidates from in-person interviews. This includes 128 Registered Nurses and one Continuing Care Assistant. Additional job interviews have been conducted virtually with Filipino Registered Nurses with another 10 conditional offers being extended. Our government is committed to strengthening and building a more robust health care workforce in Saskatchewan and its critical that we work closely with our partners here in Saskatchewan and overseas to ensure progress continues Health Minister Paul Merriman said. I want to thank Mr. Zaldy Patron the Consul-General of the Philippines to Canada for his continued leadership with this initiative. I look forward to seeing more of our ambitious plans followed up with actions in the New Year. Progress also continues in implementing new full-time positions and enhancing vacant part-time positions to full-time in nine high-priority classifications in rural and remote locations experiencing service disruptions. Through this initiative the SHA has hired 84 positions. As of December 9 24 more positions are in the hiring process and 55 are posted. Approximately 75 per cent of these positions have been filled by casual temporary or part-time staff. To provide more opportunities for health care professionals eligibility has recently been expanded for the Saskatchewan Rural and Remote Recruitment Incentive of up to 50000 for a three-year return-in-service agreement. This incentive is available to new employees in nine high priority positions in rural and remote areas including SHA employees who have completed an education program in one of these priority classifications.Our plan is delivering on what we have been hearing from front-line health care workers Minister of Rural and Remote Health Everett Hindley said. They wanted to see more permanent jobs more full-time work and we are seeing progress in many centres across Saskatchewan by bolstering resources. Im pleased our Rural and Remote Incentive is generating a lot of interest and I look forward to more progress in this area. As of late November the Ministry of Health has received over 600 applications from internationally educated health care workers within Saskatchewan and Canada. Options are being considered for bridging and educational programs for these candidates.
