Human resources

We adopt sustainable solutions to meet the growing problem of the shortage of specialist staff, for which demographic change in Germany is partly responsible. For RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG it is very important to be an attractive employer in the entire labour market. We moreover attach tremendous importance to a positive candidate experience and approach our candidates in an open and respectful way. The subject of digital transformation also plays a key role.

A creative model to counter the shortage of specialist staff nationally is the Scholarship Programme. For some years, participating doctors from abroad have been able to work in residency on the Bad Neustadt campus. With language courses, the scholarship guest residence and joint projects, doctors are helped to integrate into their new working and living environment. 

We have also been offering a special nursing integration programme for foreign nursing staff since 2014. The initially one-year placement as nursing assistant is accompanied by an intensive language course and rounded off by a social framework programme. Moreover, at the subsidiary RHÖN-Reinigungsgesellschaft at the Bad Berka site a cooperation arrangement for training Spanish apprentices was entered into.

Constantly changing rules, regulations and legislation along with ongoing advances in medicine are characteristic features of the healthcare system. That is why it is all the more important for employees of RHÖN-KLINIKUM AG to be up-to-date at all times. We ensure this above all with ongoing training, since excellent medical treatment and nursing provide the most important basis of cutting-edge medical care for our patients. 

Existing classroom training programmes will be supplemented from the end of 2016 by an e-learning system. By learning with the aid of digital media, our employees enjoy a high level of flexibility with regard to where and when they receive continued training. Every employee can learn the materials at the pace that suits them. With the e-learning system, both participants and materials are managed, learning progress is documented, and the training sessions completed. In this way, the right information is available to the right employees at the right time. In the digital environment, learning materials can be made accessible flexibly, dynamically and in updated form. Moreover, the entire continued training offering can be organised and managed through the system. It is thus possible for our employees to enrol in classroom training programmes and to get to know the multifaceted training offering of all our sites.
The e-learning system moreover enables an interfacility and schedule-free exchange of e-learning subjects between employees and specialists. Where employees did not have the opportunity to complete training sessions at their workplace, they can attend the training sessions at home on their computers. For this, a corresponding time credit is granted. For the exams or courses they pass, they receive a certificate that can be printed out through the system directly.

The e-learning system initially will offer various basic training courses, e.g. on the subjects of compliance, work safety or data protection. However, thanks to the platform’s flexibility, further learning modules can be added as required so that training courses on subjects such as taking blood, inserting stomach probes or conducting fall prophylaxis can be conducted.