Aged care workers are the essence of the aged care industry. Without the right skills and number of staff on shift, residents find their needs are not met and health and safety can suffer. Well planned rostering has a direct correlation with lower staff absenteeism, higher staff retention and greater resident satisfaction. To aid staff satisfaction and provide the care your residents need, accurate and reliable rostering is essential. Efficiencies in rostering for each shift can be created by installing an advanced rostering software package for your aged care workforce. So how does rostering software create efficiencies?
Hours Saved Equals Higher Productivity
Utilising rostering software like Humanforce removes many of the tasks involved in manual or less advanced rostering systems. Being able to customise the variables and parameters to suit your aged care business removes inaccuracies, and ensures the staff rostered are suitable for the shift, will have the right skills and are available for that roster.
Humanforce Rostering Software takes employee information including qualifications and certifications, preferred worktimes, workplace arrangements such as part-time, casual or contract and automatically matches this information with the applied rostering requirements. Industry regulations such as legal break time obligations and health and safety requirements can be included in the parameters with the capacity for any adjustments to be simply made at any time. All information can be stored as templates, saving many hours on roster creation.
The time saved by management in completing rosters can be spent on more productive areas that add value to the company.
Staff Have Ownership of Their Schedules.
Your rostering software enables the publication of weekly rosters on staff portals, allowing easy access for all workers. Changes to rosters by individual staff members can be organised through the software via chat rooms without managers having to field phone calls. Chat rooms allow staff members to show their availability for extra shifts or make requests for other staff members to take their roster times. For staff rosters that are not fixed, this helps solve any problems of ensuring there are enough workers for any given shift, without managers being bogged down by having to contact multiple workers individually.
Staff that feel they have more control and ownership of their timetabling reportedly show higher levels of satisfaction and are more likely to stay with the company. This in turn provides residents with a happier, consistent and more productive workforce.
Accuracy and Analysis
Rostering software such as Humanforce will automatically integrate timekeeping and hours to your existing payroll software, ensuring accurate wage payment and removing the need for extra purchases for your business. Rosters that match employers accurately with shift requirements save time, ensure quality performance from the workforce and provide a better experience for residents.
You can enhance your aged care residencies, create more productive hours for your management team and ensure reliable, accurate rostering with an advanced rostering software package. Rostering software for aged care shift management automatically streamlines the entire staff management process, creating efficiencies across the board.
