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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: Staffology by Iris
Staffology is your trusted partner in payroll & HR solutions for businesses that put their people first. We understand that paperwork, bureaucracy, and processes can take you away from valuable face-to-face time with staff. With Staffology we aim to give Hospices that time back. Our payroll and HR software comes equipped with features tailored to support every stage of the employee cycle, ensuring streamlined operations and compliance, so that you can focus on what truly matters – proving exceptional care to your patients.
- Moving from spreadsheets to Staffology has been a fantastic move for us and we have saved hours as a result".
Features
- Intuitive cloud-based, integrated payroll and HR
- Manage the entire employee lifecycle, from hire to retire
- Employee and manager self-service, including mobile-friendly interfaces for staff on the go
- A quick and easy way to manage your employees' rotas
- Centralised and secure storage of employee records, including certifications, training and performance reviews
- Manage absence, holidays, sickness and overtime
- Seamless integration with your existing systems via our API
Benefits
- Help employees feel better connected, engaged and rewarded
- Show your staff you care, from onboarding to development
- Lighten the load of HR admin with easy automation
- Achieve clear visibility of HR successes and improvements
- Highly secure and resilient cloud solution, fully GDPR compliant
- Rapid implementation with a range of packages to suit your needs
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 Joff Forber
HR Systems
Supplier: Blue Stream Academy
Blue Stream Academy was founded in April 2012 and has quickly become a leading provider of eLearning to GP Practices, Nursing & Care Homes, Urgent & Tailored Care Providers, Hospices, Aesthetics Providers and Carers in the UK.
Blue Stream Academy’s Hospice HR System is fully-integrated with their Hospice LMS and has the ability to track training and HR records across multiple sites and departments, with all reports available to download at the touch of a button.
Features
- Individual staff HR profiles to store employee HR data and documentation on an ISO-27001 secure platform.
- Performance management feature to record employee objectives, one-to-one records, and appraisal information
- Leave and absence management to record and review leave requests, see an absence calendar overview, and access staff leave/absence history.
- Shift and rota management with optional shift types and responsibilities.
- Automated HR reporting for staff shifts, absences, the Bradford Factor, audits and documents.
Benefits
- All employee data can be accessed from a single digital location, with the added peace of mind of BSA’s ISO-27001 certification to ensure any data is stored with the highest security.
- Managers can easily and efficiently keep track of employee performance and progression towards objectives, benefitting from a centralised approach to ensure that important reviews such as one-to-ones and appraisals and kept organised alongside employee progression
- Record and monitor employee leave, with all data stored in a single employee record alongside their training, shifts, rotas, performance and compliance information, alongside any relevant documents.
- Record and monitor employee leave, with all data stored in a single employee record alongside their training, shifts, rotas, performance and compliance information, alongside any relevant documents.
- Record and monitor employee leave, with all data stored in a single employee record alongside their training, shifts, rotas, performance and compliance information, alongside any relevant documents.
To find out more contact Mark Cowlishaw
LMS System
Supplier: Blue Stream Academy
Blue Stream Academy was founded in April 2012 and has quickly become a leading provider of eLearning to GP Practices, Nursing & Care Homes, Urgent & Tailored Care Providers, Hospices, Aesthetics Providers and Carers in the UK.
Blue Stream Academy’s Hospice eLearning Suite has been specifically developed in close collaboration with hospice managers and has been designed to train all hospice staff to a high standard by providing all necessary training via one platform.
The Hospice platform has the ability to track training records across multiple sites and departments, with all reports available to download at the touch of a button. Multiple department and site access levels enable hospices to take control of their training with a simple but effective solution, whilst the integrated policy view and sign system provides managers with a single overview of policy agreements and automated reporting for any outstanding trainee signatures.
- “The Blue Stream Academy system is incredibly user-friendly; I would recommend it to any organisation thinking of implementing eLearning. The support team deliver first-class service, they are friendly, efficient and nothing is too much trouble, we feel truly supported. Setting-up the system was effortless and hassle free. In no time at all the system was up and running, with the Team doing the bulk of the work and talking us through each step of the way. This is service at its best!” Sandra McEvoy – Treetops Hospice Care
Features
- 115+ CPD certified eLearning modules & 18 automated reports
- Trainee profile creation and modification
- SCORM & AICC external module compliance, enabling seamless integration with external eLearning courses
- Custom site and department creation with multiple management access levels
- External training storage and optional linking to BSA modules
- Digital policy and documentation library with automated reports outlining who has viewed or signed each document
- Real-time customer support available over the phone, via live chat or email, Monday to Friday from 9am-5.30pm
- Unlimited system training sessions and support
- F2F training calendar, event notifications and reviews
- Cross sector discussion forum
- Paperless Care Certificate (CC) eLearning and practical assessment add-on * requires CC licences to be purchased
- System ISO27001 certification for 4+ years
Benefits
- Increased administration efficiency & reporting accuracy through automated report production and export options
- Tailored training profiles to suit every organisation's needs
- BSA's platform eliminates the need for multiple systems, saving time and money replicating data across different platforms
- Centralised record management, combining both eLearning and external training data on one single accessible platform
- Request digital policy signatures, link policies & documents to relevant eLearning modules & download policy agreement reports
- Save time and maximise system usage & results with unlimited system support - speak to one of our customer support specialists in real time over the phone or via our live chat option
- Our interactive F2F booking system removes need for manual administration and enables automated follow ups
- Cross sector networking, discussion and advice - uniting over 250,000 health and care professionals across the UK
- Alleviate cumbersome paper Care Certificate workbooks and provide an engaging, interactive alternative to CC training
- BSA's ISO27001 certification provides additional security reassurance
To find out more contact Mark Cowlishaw
- Email: [email protected]
- Call: 01773 822549
- Visit: bluestreamacademy.com
LMS 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 LMS 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 Joff Forber
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