New partnership for Social Care announced with Care Hires
Sona and Care Hires announce an exciting partnership.
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 even if you're understaffed.
Manage absence requests and approvals.
Practical ways to boost team morale with proven examples from across the sector.
Find out what care employees say matters to them most at work.
Search and view employees with customised permission levels.
Key employment information all in one place.
Store visas, professional certifications and more with easy access.
Control personal and operational details of your staff.
Why are people leaving Social Care, and where are they going?
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Share updates with a single click.
Staff can see relevant messages in one place.
Request post-shift feedback from staff.
Recognise staff contributions by sending them praise.
Identify staff at risk of churning.
How care organisations can embrace flexible working and thrive.
Maintain quality of care and reduce costs.
Maximise profitability through AI-powered forecasting & scheduling.
Elevate your operational efficiency and guest satisfaction.
Streamline operations across sites.
Developed alongside Social Care experts with decades of combined experience.
See why we are the leading user-friendly, end-to-end platform that prioritises both efficiency and wellbeing.
The Sona Partner Network is an ecosystem of solution experts and complementary technologies.
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.
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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Align your staffing with demand needs through intelligent scheduling and reduce the risk of under or overstaffing.
Book a demoAutomation creates an optimised start point where managers only have to add high-value input, saving hours of admin time.
Tailored models for each location, based on both historical data and bespoke variables.
Schedules that facilitate staffing at peaks and using only what you need off peak.
The optimal schedule for each week generated in seconds to drive additional sales.
Re-allocation suggestions to save managers time and promote colleague wellbeing.
Real world constraints are factored in to get a great shift pattern that improves team satisfaction.
Manual, error-prone processes involving writing schedules from scratch or working on a forecast based off of historical data only.
Legacy logic based on time-and-motion studies and hardcoded variables
Managers manually writing schedules every week
Schedules often start from blank templates, introducing significant potential for error
Lack of manual edits option
AI-driven, automated processes that better reflect how staff should be deployed at a site level and empower managers.
Self-improving rules engine involving location, history and bespoke variables (eg. skill level)
Schedules that facilitate sales driving at peaks and using only what you need off-peak
Automated schedules creating a better start point, including assigning shifts
Only high value-add input required from managers
Optimise deployment to smooth out costly inefficiencies, avoid the risks of under or overstaffing, and drive additional sales.
Provide location-specific schedules that meet operational needs in minutes, improving overall team performance and making time for higher-value tasks.
Send schedules 4+ weeks in advance, reduce burnout through intelligent deployment, and enable easy overtime booking on the app.
Align staffing with Demand Forecasting data for each location to avoid overstaffing costs and maximise sales opportunities.
Give all your managers the help they need to improve operations with AI Co-pilot recommendations.
Access deep insights in seconds via Reporting dashboards that pull information from across the organisation.
Ben Dixon, our CTO, will walk you through Sona's AI features designed specifically for large Hospitality operators.
An optimal schedule maximises labour cost efficiency while prioritising team wellbeing and leveraging all available resources. It ensures the right people are in the right place at the right time to drive additional sales and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
An optimal schedule maximises labour cost efficiency while prioritising team wellbeing and leveraging all available resources. It ensures the right people are in the right place at the right time to drive additional sales and deliver an exceptional customer experience.
Automated scheduling accounts for several factors such as a reliable forecast of labour requirements, employee constraints of skills, working patterns, shift lengths, and more. We invest significant time to ensure all of these variables are fine-tuned and the auto-scheduling allocates the best schedule every time.
Automated scheduling accounts for several factors such as a reliable forecast of labour requirements, employee constraints of skills, working patterns, shift lengths, and more. We invest significant time to ensure all of these variables are fine-tuned and the auto-scheduling allocates the best schedule every time.
Managers are empowered to deliver better results by starting with an optimised schedule that accounts for diverse variables. Before making the schedule public, they have the option to edit it according to their best knowledge.
Managers are empowered to deliver better results by starting with an optimised schedule that accounts for diverse variables. Before making the schedule public, they have the option to edit it according to their best knowledge.
Sona’s Auto-scheduling, paired with the Forecasting feature, reduces the scope for inconsistencies & improves deployment accuracy by up to 78%.
Sona’s Auto-scheduling, paired with the Forecasting feature, reduces the scope for inconsistencies & improves deployment accuracy by up to 78%.
Embrace the better way to manage and optimise your frontline operations.
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