3 Ways to Attract, Retain and Engage Skilled Allied Health Clinicians
How reducing administrative burden and streamlining workflows can increase productivity, quality of care and staff satisfaction in your allied health team.
In any allied health business, high-quality clinical staff are your most valuable asset.
Profitability, growth and the ability to deliver positive outcomes for clients now, and in the future, all depend on a provider’s ability to attract and retain skilled staff. But just having a great team of allied health providers isn’t enough.
Many managers have experienced the challenge of assembling a roster of top clinicians, but because of a lack of engagement and efficiency—results don’t match the advanced skill level of the team. When a provider’s software system can’t keep up with the evolving operational requirements of the many differing funding bodies, it can end up complicating, rather than simplifying the lives of clinicians. This leaves allied health staff left feeling frustrated, disengaged and unsupported.
The solution is to implement practice management software that streamlines workflows, is adaptable to changes, and reduces administrative burden on your Allied Health clinicians—so that they can focus on doing what they do best (and what generates revenue) – providing better care.
Let’s take a look at 3 ways Lumary AH can help forward-thinking providers attract, retain and engage skilled allied health clinicians.
1. Reduce Administrative Burden
Admin and documentation compliance has long been a source of tension between allied health clinicians, managers and funding bodies. Funding bodies need ample evidence of quality service provision and KPI’s being met. And managers are stuck in the middle—supporting clinicians to comply with documentation requirements while maintaining billable activity levels.
By utilising a single, all-inclusive digitally integrated platform for documentation and record keeping, Lumary AH significantly reduces administrative burden for clinicians and supervisors.
2. Promote Clinician Ownership of KPI’s
When allied health staff don’t feel they have ownership over KPI’s, engagement and productivity plummet. It sounds basic, but the key to promoting a sense of ownership is making KPI’s visible and easy to understand.
To hit their targets, your clinicians should easily be able to view, track and understand their expected monthly, weekly and daily billable and non-billable activity goals. When staff are clear on what they need to do to succeed they feel in control. And when clinicians feel they have control over their workload—they take ownership of meeting KPI’s.
3. Integrated Outcome Tracking and Evidencing
Client goals written by clinicians tend to be text-heavy and difficult to analyse. This leads to challenges aligning a customer’s goals, interventions, and outcomes, which in turn, can negatively impact care quality and value, while making evidencing and outcome tracking more complicated and time consuming than it needs to be.
By integrating the entire outcome tracking and evidencing process within the same platform, Lumary AH facilitates consistency in this essential area for allied health providers.
Empower Your Team to Succeed
As a manager, supervisor or practice owner, giving your staff the tools they need to succeed is crucial to attracting, retaining and engaging skilled allied health clinicians.
Clinicians want to partner with an employer who supports them to make a positive difference in the lives of their clients. And a big part of that support includes providing an efficient, intuitive, end-to-end digital care management platform that streamlines operational processes and minimises administrative burden.
With Lumary’s new allied health solution, you can partner with an established software provider who understands the Australian healthcare system and the unique needs of your business and your clinicians.
To find out more about Lumary AH or to request a demo, get in touch today.
