Employee Appreciation Day: 5 Inspiring Initiatives in Social Care
Employee Appreciation Day is an opportunity for Social Care providers to recognise and engage their staff. Here are five inspiring initiatives.
Create and fill rotas in seconds.
Engage, recognise and retain staff.
Connect your entire workforce.
Seamlessly manage HR processes.
Building a staff schedule couldn’t be easier.
Reduce payroll errors with real-time T&A.
Fill 50% more shifts with your own employees.
Ensure shifts are covered if you're understaffed.
Manage absence requests and approvals.
Control personal and operational details of your staff.
Staff can see relevant messages in one place.
Track shift fulfilment, labour productivity, agency spend and more in one click.
Manage access simply and securely.
Sona can work hand-in-hand with your existing systems.
Find out what care employees say matters to them most at work.
Key employment information all in one place.
Why are health and social care workers leaving... and where are they going?
How care organisations can embrace flexible working and thrive.
Maintain quality of care and reduce costs.
Bring out the best in your teams.
Streamline operations across sites.
Keep your staff and volunteers connected.
Richard, our Head of Product, worked in social care for 10 years before bringing his experience to Sona.
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Sona is the 2022 Leaders in Care Awards winner for Innovative Solution of the Year for Care Homes.
Give staff greater visibility of shifts available to work, with a simple "shift claim" process to increase their income.
Improve employee engagement and retention with a seamless employee communication platform.
Happier staff provide greater customer experiences, which in turn drives return rates, revenues and recommendations.
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We were thrilled to learn that we've been announced as a finalist in the Innovative Solutions, Care Homes, category.
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The Leaders in Care Awards, hosted by Care Home Professional and Home Care Insight, have been circled in our calendars for a while.
We recently revealed that we're sponsoring the Leader of the Future award. So now we have an extra reason to look forward to the ceremony on 11 October!
The Innovative Solutions supplier award recognises providers helping the UK care home industry deliver efficient, effective and high-quality care. Making the shortlist so early in our journey is an unexpected delight and fantastic validation of our progress so far.
Congratulations to our fellow finalists Leecare Solutions, Vayyar, Person Centred Software, and Care Hires - the quality of technology in social care has never been higher.
No one is happier about the news than our Co-founder Oli:
I'm so proud of this nomination and for being recognised alongside these great companies. And I'm thrilled that the hard work the entire Sona team continues to put into making the best workforce management solution on the market is being noticed by the industry.
Oli will have the honour of presenting the Leader of the Future award to one of the following impressive individuals:
Well done to all of you for making what was undoubtedly a hotly contested shortlist.
Seventeen awards are up for grabs next month, with the decisions being made by an independent judging panel comprised of some big names, including Jane Townson, CEO of Homecare Association; Kathryn Smith, CEO of the Social Care Institute for Excellence; Martin Green, CEO of Care England; and Vic Rayner, executive director of the National Care Forum.
For the complete lists of award finalists, check out the following links:
Best of luck to everyone involved.
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