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Liz Slater,
Rostering System Administrator
University Hospitals of Leicester |
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Staff.Care
automates the manual processes involved in the compilation
of the rota while allowing skilled staff to use their
judgement and knowledge to fine tune the suggested plan. It
greatly reduces the time taken to produce the rota as it
takes all of the elements of demand and availability into
consideration and automatically produces an optimised
solution for review by management.
However,
resources in addition to contract staff are often required
to meet dependency demands. Staff.Care helps the ward
manager to manage those unfilled duties from the roster by
either sending requests to the Bank or ‘self managing’ the
Bank by selecting particular members of Bank staff to work a
particular shift.
| Simplification
of Bank Management |
An employee
who is contracted to the Bank may request a particular duty
or can scroll a list of available duties that match their
own grade. As Staff.Care is a web browser based system these
requests can be made over the Internet from the employee’s
home.
Staff.Care
updates a dashboard to alert staff in the Bank office when a
request has been made from a unit for additional duties. The
Bank staff can then review the request against a database of
available staff, by grade and by competence and allocate the
appropriate resource.
The ward
manager can review the Staff.Care roster display to see
which duties have been allocated to bank staff and who has
taken them. The whole process of Bank Management is
streamlined, made more equitable and delivers greater
utilisation of staff and helps control staffing budgets.
| Staff
Self-Service Portal |
While
Staff.Care delivers efficiencies for management it also
delivers benefits for staff in terms of increased
flexibility, fairness and equability.
The staff
self service portal is web browser based and accessible from
any computer, subject to appropriate security levels of your
organisation, i.e. people
can log in from home and can;
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view
available Bank shifts |
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add or
retract requests for a particular shift |
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see who
else and how many people have requested that shift |
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request
leave and add free text messages |
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view or
print their rota page planned and completed shifts |
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