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.
Over 500k shifts are created by our customers each year.
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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 and honoured to be named Innovative Solution of the Year for Care Homes at last night's award ceremony.
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Strong showing from team Sona. Left to right: Richard, Ben, Oli, Molly, Abbey, Pandora, Steffen, Aimen, Hemal
Awards night MC Neil Eastwood said the award reflected the impact of our software, especially Shift Filler, on the ability of care homes to ensure smooth operations and high quality of care through efficient staffing and engaged teams.
This simply wouldn't be possible without the support of our amazing customers and investors and the hard work of our entire team.
What unites us is a passion to harness the power of technology to transform the future of care work, and we hope this honour is one of many as we make that vision a reality.
A special shout out to Angela Boxall of Majesticare who won the Sona-sponsored Leader of the Future award. As well as an inspiring leader, Angela continues to be a strong external advocate for the sector and is a Championing Social Care Ambassador.
2022 Leaders In Care Awards winners in full:
Co-founder Oli returned to the stage to present Majesticare COO Angela Boxall with the Leader of the Future award.
Congratulations to all the winners!
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