Nextra’s rostering software will make your life so much easier when it comes to scheduling the rotas. It’s easy and intuitive to use, allows you to customise your delivery rotas and gives you a live overview of your schedules. Importantly, it has drag and drop functionality meaning shift swaps and changes are super easy to make and check. 

Nextra’s workforce management software links with your HR and Payroll systems. This means absence management is a breeze, and your payroll will always be accurate, is calculated quickly, and holiday pay automatically calculated. 

You need cover day and night, all year round. This makes your rota one of the most important parts of your business, ensuring the optimum number of workers are on each shift. Even if it’s by mistake, understaffing a shift is not an option, and mistakes in the rota could lose your organisation money by having to find carers at short notice, or leave vulnerable clients uncared for, which will have knock-on consequences for your care home’s reputation. Therefore the right rota software is a vital tool to help you deliver high quality care services. 

We understand that your teams are a mixture of staff, with some full-time, some part-time members, and others hired on a casual basis. And the schedules will vary from day to day, with different staff on different shifts. This makes payroll complex and ever-changing, and a nightmare for your accounts team to calculate manually. With Nextra’s self-service app, your care workers can clock in and out on their apps (or automatically with the geolocation feature) and the payroll and any necessary holiday pay will be automatically calculated on an individual basis and the information shared with your Payroll department. 

If you have a number of locations, work scheduling becomes an even greater challenge. In the days of manually creating schedules, the task could take days, but workforce management software has transformed things for the better. Once you’ve put all the relevant information into your database, you can create multiple schedules at the touch of a button and make the inevitable changes easily and quickly. 

Absences are one of the bugbears of most organisations and are guaranteed to affect staff schedules. Rostering software will take staff availability into account, minimising the risk that someone who’s booked leave will be added to the schedule by mistake. And when carers call in sick, rather than spend time phoning everyone, just send a message via the app to see if anyone’s free to cover the shift. 

Nextra’s software will also enable you to manage unauthorised absences. Its reporting feature will give you all the data you need to get powerful insights into working patterns, and the absence management feature will calculate the Bradford Factor, highlighting where there may be an issue and enabling you to do something about it before it becomes a problem.