These managers completed a pre-tested Measure of Job Satisfaction questionnaire with subscales on personal satisfaction, workload, professional support, training, pay, career prospects and standards of care.
The subscales with the highest scores were personal satisfaction, professional support, training, prospects and standards of care, while the lowest scores were obtained for workload and pay (Table 2).
These included supervision strategies or interventions, professional support strategies, training and education interventions and mentoring strategies or interventions.
We also recommend that health professional support and training is provided to ensure that public health initiatives are not delivered solely as health education activities within acute settings.
The ASPC is a professional membership society providing support, training and professional development to those undertaking surgical procedures in the community setting.
The survey ended with questions regarding the amount of supervision of professional support functions and training undertaken.
The MJS questionnaire used was divided into 7 categories, which were personal satisfaction, satisfaction with workload, satisfaction with professional support, satisfaction with training, satisfaction with pay, satisfaction with prospects and satisfaction with standards of care.
Certainly, child protection professionals need enormous support, training and supervision to confront this without being overwhelmed by terror and horror, and to intervene when necessary.
Scales covering training conditions were assessed by structured residency training, professional support, and dealing with lack of knowledge; working conditions were evaluated by work overload, job autonomy and social support, based on the Demand Control Support model.
Most get professional support and opportunities for training, but nearly a quarter aren't getting support every month and nearly a quarter don't have time to take up any training.
All measures were collected within an official employee survey, which was conducted to provide feedback on the climate within the organization and employees' work-related needs for training, professional support, and childcare to the university's board of management.
