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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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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Sona’s dynamic roster is built to fit your business, not the other way around. Building a staff roster couldn’t be easier.
Book a demoView rosters by location and let Sona ensure that employees' contracted hours are met
Bring the people you support - and their care packages - into the system and ensure the right care is being delivered
Break up shifts into “runs”, with each visit and travel time clearly organised
The team at Sona were very helpful and incredibly accommodating to all our requirements, ensuring that we could roll out very quickly and with minimal effort needed on our part.
The system is very well used and is now in all our homes with great results, with not just financial benefits seen but colleague morale having increased as they can easily see their rotas and also pick up extra shifts as they want to.
Claire Kennedy, Head of HR
Advinia Healthcare
Staff shortages and short notice changes are a constant headache for managers. Sona helps you build full rosters in minutes:
Gone are the days of manually keeping track of which contract each employee is on and how their overtime or waking night shifts should be counted. Sona is built to handle:
Payroll reconciliation shouldn't be a painful and error-prone process. Let our system take the strain:
Replace paper timesheets and error-prone payroll reports and avoid payroll overspend by moving your timekeeping processes online with Sona.
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Get more out of your existing systems by connect them to your workforce through the Sona app.
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There are lots of benefits to using dedicated, cloud-based rostering software, but three of the biggest are:
1 Time efficiency
Rota management is one of the most time-consuming parts of a manager’s week. The right software can automate a lot of the manual roster work and reduce the time it takes to complete the tasks that can’t be automated.
2 Higher quality data
Having reliable digital records of when and where staff worked means a more accurate payroll. But it also lets you access valuable real-time intelligence about your people and operations that can help improve future schedules.
3 A better employee experience
Making rosters available digitally to your staff gives them greater control and flexibility over their working hours and fairer access to overtime. It also makes shift-based communication quicker, easier, and less intrusive when they’re not on shift.
Yes. Rostering in Sona accommodates all working patterns, shifts, and role types. So full-time staff with fixed salaries can be scheduled right alongside hourly workers - not just in one location, but across sites, too.
Silos are the enemy of efficient organisations. Sona is designed to integrate with your existing software so your staff can access everything in one place and data can move seamlessly between systems. We offer SSO and we integrate with a wide range of HR, payroll, and WFM platforms.
They will love you for it.
Our employee recognition tool is one of the many reasons why Sona is loved by managers and employees alike.
We believe that staff should always be told about the great work they do and how valuable they are - so we've made this as easy as possible for managers.
Simply click on their name and send praise their way in seconds.
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