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Supporting and growing your Hospice team through online systems, PPE and employee benefits.
Supplier: Iris Cascade HRi
Online integrated HR platforms to support members across the lifecycle of employees and volunteers. Built in systems to manage payroll, training management, recruitment and more.
- An intuitive cloud-based HR Platform, with integrated Payroll, Recruitment, Training Management and more designed to manage employees and volunteers.
Features
- Fully integrated HR & Payroll software managing employee & volunteer data
- Integrates with third party time and attendance systems (including rostering)
- Live, interactive, secure & reliable platform
- Powerful reporting tools
- Customisable data screens & reports
- Free volunteer licences and learning and development webinars
Benefits
- Simplicity of an outsourced payroll function without the laborious data entry
- Unique user-friendly integration to Payroll
- Rental option available which removes upfront cost and allows Hospices to budget
- No additional costs for volunteer licenses or to keeping your employees up to date with L&D
To find out more contact Lauri Cronvall
HR Systems
Supplier: Ciphr
Ciphr Connect is designed to provide a frictionless people management experience across the entire employee lifecycle. Choosing a single provider of HR, payroll, recruitment and learning solutions will help you attract, engage and retain employees and volunteers more effectively.
Features
- Supports complete employee lifecycle
- Integrates with rostering & scheduling systems
- Customised to your organisation’s brand
- Secure access to your people data on any device
- Ciphr Academy provides training, online content, bespoke coaching & an online user community
- Nominal fee for volunteer licenses
- ISO14001 environmental certification
Benefits
- Improves data accuracy and integrity
- Transfer people data securely
- Excellent connectivity between new and existing solutions reduces administrative burden
- Increases employee engagement and creates an improved user experience
- Means you can quickly and easily access information at anytime or location
- Users have tools and knowledge to maximise benefits of platform
- Simple and easy to find solutions that seamlessly integrate and compliment your Ciphr Connect platform
To find out more contact Steven Spires
L&D System
Supplier: Ciphr
Ciphr LMS (Learning Management System) makes it easy for you to create, deliver and manage engaging online learning activities that enable and support the development of your people. Ciphr award-winning cloud based LMS is designed to help you deliver and manage online employee learning as quickly as possible and can scale to meet even the most complex requirements. Its intuitive and modern interface makes it easy for staff to choose the materials most relevant to them, or complete pre-defined learning journeys. Ciphr LMS is available as a standalone solution or can integrate fully with Ciphr’s people management software to deliver outstanding experiences for both learners and L&D and HR teams.
- “It is very important that our people understand how much we invest in their development. We present the training data annually to the organisation and the details that are held in Ciphr make developing that presentation simple. We can show trends graphically to make the information easy to digest for everyone. Post-training evaluation questionnaires provide us with valuable feedback from candidates so we can revise our programmes where necessary.””
Features
- A single, self-service platform for all learning and administration of learning content
- Configurable homepage
- Visual learning journeys/programmes
- Calendar functionality for booking onto and managing workshops
- Gamified elements – such as leader boards, badges, and certificates
- Can host a range of content types including eLearning modules, quizzes, PDFs, PowerPoint presentations, webinars, and videos
- Rules engine and notification templates to automate workflows
- Skills analysis assessment tools
- Social learning functionality – including a knowledge base, discussion groups, and mentoring
- Suite of baseline reports to track and manage learning
- Progress and analytics dashboards
- Optional partner eLearning content
- Bespoke content development services
Benefits
- Provides a single hub for all your L&D resources
- Flexible delivery of multiple training formats for personalised, blended learning
- Host resources you’ve created and developed in-house, as well as training modules that have been created by external providers
- Option to work with expert content designers to create bespoke modules
- Supports personalised, visual learning journeys to make learning engaging and easy to follow
- Easily track who has completed mandatory and voluntary training activities
- View interactive content, complete online courses, earn badges and book face-to-face training
- Comprehensive reporting functionality to analyse, helping you make more informed decisions about L&D strategy
- Customisable branding and interface that supports your employer brand
- Scalable solution that grows with you as your organisation develops
- Available as an integrated or standalone LMS solution
To find out more contact Steven Spires
Employee Benefits
Supplier: PIB Employee Benefits
A range of benefit schemes that offer protection and benefits for your employees covering pensions, group risk and healthcare. In addition, PIB Employee Benefits provide access to a free discount shopping portal with additional benefits for employees and volunteers.
- People are your greatest asset. With a fully personalised approach,all sizes of schemes are catered for to offer a great package to your employees.
Features
- All schemes subject to ongoing full market review
- Schemes regularly reviewed for governance and compliance
- Access to a wide number of schemes including life assurance, income protection and critical illness, as well as private medical insurance cash plans & employee assistance programmes
- Employer & employee technical support
- Consultants work across all benefit schemes
- Access to portal to allow for additional range of benefits to be offered to employees
- More features available on smaller schemes
Benefits
- Allows long term savings and a personalised approach to the right scheme
- Reassurance that schemes maintain compliance
- A wide range of schemes means that employers can offer improved benefits to employees
- Any questions or problems resolved quickly
- Allows consultants to review wider benefits package for every employee
- Employee benefits supplied at a cost-effective premium for employers
- Purchasing schemes on a larger scale means that Members benefit from additional features that wouldn’t normally be available on smaller schemes
To find out more contact Jason Crowther
PPE & Uniforms
Supplier: Banner
Banner provide a broad product range that stretches across Personal Protective Equipment (PPE), Health and Safety Equipment and work wear (including high vis vests, glasses, gloves and boots).
Features
- All work wear can be personalised to your organisation with a printed or embroidered logo
- Scope to aggregate requirements with those of other Hospices or benefit from NHS buying power
- 1-year fixed pricing with annual price review
- Competitive pricing continually monitored and benchmarked on a global scale
- ISO14001 environmental certification
- Green Optima™ Environmentally friendly monitoring scheme
- Experienced and dedicated team allocated to your account, managing implementation and contracts
- Free next day delivery with no minimum order charge using Banner's own delivery service
Benefits
- Create a sense of belonging among your staff and volunteers with branded workwear
- Cost savings for your organisation leveraging increased buying power
- Knowledge that your price remains fixed for a 12month period with flexibility on price and service built in as part of annual negotiations
- Reassurance and transparency on pricing mean that the price is always the best possible value for money
- External organisation responsible for auditing and continuous improvement targets offers assurance that standards are being met throughout the supply chain
- Reassurance that environmental standards are being monitored and recommendations for continuous improvement can be made and easily implemented to improve your compliance
- High level of personal service from the outset. Inherent knowledge of your organisation's requirements allows additional efficiencies to be made on consolidating orders across PPE, Uniforms, Promotional Fundraising Merchandise and Stationery
- Efficient and guaranteed delivery service, with no hidden charges
To find out more contact Mark Airey / Jordan Eli
Online Rota System
Supplier: Block of Code
The Online Rota System is a staff rostering solution designed to address the unique staffing challenges within Hospices. Offering both an off-the-shelf solution for rostering, reducing staff management overhead, alongside the option to access powerful customisation, the Online Rota System fits around your requirements and processes, rather than requiring you to adapt to the system. An intuitive user interface makes the system easy to use regardless of technical ability and can be accessed from any device with a connection to the internet.
Features
- Accommodates annual leave and shift requests, including rolling shift patterns & system updates automatically
- Calculates total staff hours weekly
- Timesheets automatically generated based on existing rota data
- Interacts with existing HR systems
- User friendly interface includes management signoff
- Key metrics visible at a glance – colour-coded daily establishment vs actuals
- Bank shifts automatically generated with capability to generate ad hoc banks shifts
- Management have full visibility of staffing levels
- Bank shifts are automatically updated as they are picked up
- Only pay for the staff working for you
Benefits
- Rota is updated immediately so information is always up to date and saves time by reducing repetitive tasks
- Easier to track any time owed and easily identifies shortfalls
- Saves time & reduces error as removes staff input – this service is Free of charge exclusively for HQP members
- Fits with your existing requirements and processes
- Customisation to suit your organisation and provide access to management, HR and Finance
- Gives a full picture of rota to enable easy resource planning
- Staff can pick up bank shifts in 1 click, 40% filled in first hour. System automates shortfalls in rota – freeing up time for patients
- System allows for management input whilst removing time consuming repetitive tasks
- Live picture of rota data always available
- 12 month rolling contract gives you ultimate flexibility and the ability to financially plan based on staff numbers