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ShiftWorksRiverside Meadows Care Center

Sample data

Schedule, week 33

The draft for the week of 10 to 16 August — early, late and night shifts.

Name, unit or qualification
  • week 33
  • Riverview unit
  • early shift
  • late shift
  • night shift
  • unfilled shifts only
  • show relief pool

Draft schedule — Riverview unit

A draft, not yet signed off. Until it is posted it can still change without notice.

Mon 10 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 8 of 8

    in charge: Karen Fielding

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 6 of 6

    in charge: Michael Lawson

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 2 of 2

    Anna Wells, Neil Truman

Tue 11 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 8 of 8

    in charge: Karen Fielding

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 5 of 6

    relief pool asked

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 2 of 2

    Anna Wells, Neil Truman

Wed 12 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 7 of 8

    practice supervisor training

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 6 of 6

    in charge: Michael Lawson

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 2 of 2

    Dominic Taylor, Jonas Cooper

Thu 13 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 8 of 8

    in charge: Ellen Whitmore

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 6 of 6

    in charge: Michael Lawson

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 1 of 2

    no registered nurse rostered

Fri 14 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 8 of 8

    in charge: Ellen Whitmore

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 6 of 6

    Fielding swap request open

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 2 of 2

    Dominic Taylor, Jonas Cooper

Sat 15 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 6 of 7

    one place open

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 5 of 5

    in charge: Sabrina Radcliffe

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 1 of 2

    relief pool asked

Sun 16 Aug

  • 6:00 AM–2:00 PM

    Early shift — 6 of 7

    one place open

  • 1:30 PM–9:30 PM

    Late shift — 5 of 5

    in charge: Sabrina Radcliffe

  • 9:00 PM–6:15 AM

    Night shift — 2 of 2

    Anna Wells, Neil Truman

Cover against requirement

DayEarlyLateNightNote
Mon 10 AugEarly8 / 8Late6 / 6Night2 / 2NoteComplete
Tue 11 AugEarly8 / 8Late5 / 6Night2 / 2NoteRelief pool asked
Wed 12 AugEarly7 / 8Late6 / 6Night2 / 2NoteTraining
Thu 13 AugEarly8 / 8Late6 / 6Night1 / 2NoteNo registered nurse
Fri 14 AugEarly8 / 8Late6 / 6Night2 / 2NoteComplete
Sat 15 AugEarly6 / 7Late5 / 5Night1 / 2NoteTwo shifts open
Sun 16 AugEarly6 / 7Late5 / 5Night2 / 2NoteOne shift open

Required cover follows the unit staffing key · nights need at least one registered nurse per house

From draft to posted plan

  1. Collect preferences and blocked times

    deadline was 20 Jul

  2. Build the draft

    shift planning, 24 Jul

  3. Check rest periods and maximum hours

    three warnings open

  4. Consult the union steward

    covered by the union contract

  5. Post the plan and notify staff

    by 7 Aug at the latest

The project frame

How Awelior would approach this project

Riverside Meadows Care Center is invented — the way it is built is not. None of this is work delivered for a client. It is the shape we would give such a project — with the same depth, but without a client who would have to answer for it.

Where it starts

At Riverside Meadows Care Home the rota is built in a spreadsheet, printed and pinned up. Leave requests arrive on paper, everybody counts their own overtime, and whether the early shift has somebody with the right qualification is something the care manager knows from experience. When somebody drops out at short notice, the search starts from scratch.

Decisions

  • Qualification belongs to planning, not to the personnel file

    Who may cover a shift follows from recorded qualifications — visible while planning, not only at audit. That is exactly where spreadsheet rotas fail: they can move names around, but they cannot object.

  • Draft and published are two states

    A draft rota may change; a published one may not without notice. Carrying that distinction in the system is the difference between a tool and a shared file in which every version counts equally.

  • Working-time accounts run continuously, not at month end

    Plus and minus hours are kept as they accrue and are visible to staff. That removes the basis for the month-end argument — and is the point where a system like this wins or loses trust.

Deliberately left outNo automatic schedule generation. An algorithm that writes the schedule moves responsibility to a place that cannot carry it — and under a collective bargaining agreement that is not a technical question but an organizational one.

What is in it

Screens
5
Content blocks
19
Languages
4

Five screens, in all four languages, with sidebar, header and stated role. Navigation works; calendar, tables, board, history, charts and forms are rendered and inert. Names, shifts and balances are invented.

How it would go on

  • Working time law and collective agreements

    Rest periods, maximum hours, premiums and collectively agreed rules have to live in the system, or it plans against the law.

  • The union contract

    Schedules and hour banks are usually written into the collective bargaining agreement. Where one applies, introducing them belongs on the table with the union steward before it is decided technically.

  • Staff access

    View the rota, request leave, swap a shift — on a phone. Without that route, the printout on the wall stays the real rota.

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Sample data

An application like this for your business?

ShiftWorks is invented — the way it is cut is not. Applications like this come out of the processes a business already runs.

Sample application by Awelior. Invented business, invented data, nothing stored.