HealthRoster
During 2017, the Trust continued to further deploy the capabilities of HealthRoster across the
nursing workforce and also into other professional teams.
One of Healthroster's key benefits is to improve patient care by ensuring that correctly skilled staff
are on duty and increasing time to care by automating some administrative processes. It also
provides senior nurses with 'real-time' rostering information across the whole organisation through
'SafeCare' to help identify areas where clinical demand may outstrip capacity allowing for action
to be taken.
One of the many functionalities of Healthroster is:
• To capture the skills of each member of staff along with their training records
• To give assurances that we have staff with the appropriate skills on duty at all times.
In addition, the Employee Online (EOL) function gives staff a single, easy website with which to
manage their working lives enabling them to:
• View rosters
• Make duty, leave and study requests
• Access their training record
• View and manage bank bookings
• Check timesheets.
During this year, a small team from the Nursing Administration Team undertook work to assist
wards and teams to get staff mandatory training and skills unto the Healthroster system by visiting
wards and departments to collect hard copies of training records, get the information uploaded
and then return the responsibility back to the nurse in charge to maintain.
This will enable the Trust to monitor the team's performance against mandatory training standards,
to review the skills sets of staff and to help with the commissioning of training to ensure our staff
are competent to deliver nursing care across a variety of clinical settings. It also gives nursing
managers 3 months notice of when training is due for renewal which can be built into the six
weekly rostering process.
To date progress has been in the hospital settings:
• Surgery
• Medicine
• Mental Health Inpatient Wards
• Outpatients, Emergency Departments
• Ards GP Ward
• Minor Injury Units
• Rapid Response Nursing Teams
• Thompson House
• Prison Healthcare.
The next stage of the roll-out is into Midwifery, Primary Care and Older People and Health Visiting.
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