Social welfare facilities/offices, etc.

Persons willing to be employed at welfare facilities

Persons with experience of working at welfare facilities, etc.

Persons who want to know about welfare facilities, etc.

## Overview

# Structural Chart for Securing Welfare Human Resources

## • National Centers for Social Service Human Resources/manpower banks for welfare services (*)

• National Centers for Social Service Human Resources have been established within every prefectural Council of Social Welfare.

• Manpower banks for welfare services have been established as branch offices of National Centers for Social Service Human Resources in some prefectural Councils of Social Welfare. More community-oriented free job placement services and publication/enlightenment activities are being implemented in cooperation with National Centers for Social Service Human Resources.

Application for job placement

Information provision/Job placement

- The provision of job placement services by providing anyone wishing to find with work in welfare, including anyone wishing to engage in welfare, anyone wishing to work if given the opportunity to do so, and anyone wishing to utilize their qualifications and experience in welfare, etc., with recruitment information upon them applying for a job placement.

## Free Job placement services

• The provision of human resource placement services through providing business operators with information on job seekers upon application for recruitment, including recruitment of personnel needed in the creation of social welfare service facilities or to fill a vacancy or add additional staff members, recruitment involving maternity leave or child care leave, and recruitment of workers in various types of employment such as part-time workers, etc.

They are all free employment placement services implemented via a license from the Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare in accordance with Article 33 of the Employment Security Act.

Application for recruitment

Information provision/

Human resource placement

## I nformation sessions on welfare workplaces/information provision at joint job-interviews

Participation

• Information sessions on welfare workplaces enable the staff members that are actually engaged in welfare to provide explanations on welfare facilities and welfare work, for example in-home welfare services, in thus helping to reduce any anxiety the participants feel about the work and lead them to active employment.

• Joint job-interviews enable participants to take part in interviews at the welfare facilities/offices that are actually recruiting staff.

• Both these occasions allow consultations on how to acquire qualifications and employment in welfare to take place.

## Seminars for potential qualified persons, etc

- The provision of the latest information on trends at welfare workplaces and practical lectures and training for anyone with qualifications in the welfare field, including certified care workers, certified social workers, and nursery teachers, etc. Anyone with experience in working at welfare facilities, or that have not engaged in any related work after acquiring qualifications, and anyone willing to work at welfare workplaces via utilization of their qualifications are all provided with employment support.

## V isiting facilities/workplace experience

Participation

The provision to anyone "interested in welfare" or "willing to engage in welfare work" with the opportunity to actually visit facilities or experience the work of welfare staffs, etc. in addition to training and lectures.

For anyone "willing to engage in welfare work", in particular, arrangements can also be made for them to visit and experience the facilities/offices that they are actually considering working at.

Sending information

## Publication/enlightenment of welfare work

• The provision of information on welfare work not only to anyone willing to be employed but also to the public through offering “delivery lectures” at schools for high-school students, conducting “introductory courses in welfare” for residents, and producing various pamphlets, etc.

Cooperation/Information provision

• Japan Association of

Hello Works

Certified Care Workers

(public employment

Welfare-related

• Japanese Association of Certified Social Workers security offices)

• Universities

and other job placement

• Junior colleges

• Japanese Nursing Association

agencies

• Welfare training schools

• High schools

(Nurse centers)

and other professional organizations

## Training/consultations on developing human resources

• Maintaining the provision of quality welfare services requires securing capable welfare human resources as well as their adaptation and improving their quality.

Consultation

• Training/consultations are provided to managers on securing the various welfare human resources needed, improving the treatment of staff and work systems in promoting the workplace adaptation of staff members, and the ideal human resource development and management, etc.

## Training/consultations on quality improvements/career advancement of workers

• Improving the specialties and advancing the careers of those working at welfare facilities is considered important in providing improved welfare services.

• Training by level/job type, etc. is provided in cooperation with professional organizations and other training implementation entities.

• In addition, consultations are also provided on an individual basis with regard to qualification acquisition and changing jobs, etc.

Participation/Consultatio

## Advice

Social welfare

Councils by business type

(Facility managers)

Persons working at welfare facilities, etc.