The population of older adults is growing, and the intensity of demand of nursing care is becoming more complex. As front line workers strive to find their work-life balance, the industry’s workforce is moving towards a gig economy at a large scale.
Considering the current shortage of healthcare workers and future occupational demand, the long term care industry must evolve to retain top talent. The integration of programmatic approaches will streamline costs and maintain a strong workforce while providing residents and patients with quality care. In considering this workforce problem, Accushield brings to the market a modernized and programmatic staffing solution to help you retain staff, fill shifts, manage overtime, and reduce agency spend.
Introducing Accushield’s Flex Solution
Call Out, Schedule, and Engage Your Staff Today.
Flex combats many of the challenges associated with staffing at your facility. The Flex solution is a simple, mobile-first platform that empowers your team to browse, self-schedule, and accept shifts directly from their phones. Flex combines a top workforce scheduling platform with the industry’s leading kiosk-based sign-in and entry management system for visitors, staff, and third-party healthcare providers. Providing long-term care providers with a simple and unique alternative to traditional management of staff scheduling, call-outs, and time and attendance tracking in critical in gig economy workforce.
With Flex, your employees can now set work preferences and availability, and they will also have the opportunity to fill an extra shift as soon as it becomes available. Management will no longer need to call individual employees about a shift opening because all of the information can be easily transmitted through this platform. When a shift cannot be fulfilled by an internal staff member, Flex also offers an improved solution for reaching external agencies, and information will be provided for both pricing and availability. Filtering options also give you the ability to quickly sort and select specific agencies to work based on many different factors, including price and ratings.
Product Details
Scheduling
Part of the Flex platform is a scheduling tool that allows the user to create shifts for different role types and assign those shifts to staff members. Those shifts can be created on a daily basis, or users can create a template that can be reused if the facility has regular needs for certain positions.
Manage and monitor scheduling of internal and external staff – all in one place.
- Save administrative time
- See and fill gaps at a glance
- Reduce overtime hours
- Avoid scheduling conflicts
Shift Call-Out
In the event of an available shift, a shift call-out can be sent to all available employees. These employees can be selected based on different criteria such as seniority, experience, and others.
- Instantly connect with available staff
- Prioritize staff with criteria-based callout
- Send and receive automatic push notifications
- Prioritize shifts with configurable lead times
- Retain full visibility over callout activity
Communications through the Flex Mobile App
Enable employees to see their schedule, set preferences, and accept shifts that come available automatically. In-app messaging also enables direct or group communication.
- 24/7 access to schedules
- Increased engagement with instant access to available shifts
- Simpler, direct communication with 2-way messaging
- Stronger team connection and organization with real-time updates
Agency Care Network
While the goal of Flex is to reduce agency spend as much as possible by fulfilling more shifts with internal staff members, there will be times that agency staffing is needed. Through the Agency Care Network, available shifts can be scheduled to be sent out to all or a selected grouping of agencies on the platform at a set amount of time before the shift begins.
- Connect with with your existing partners
- Access a qualified network of healthcare professionals
- Fill shifts with ease with vetted staff
In our recent Press Release, Charles Mann, Founder of Accushield comments on this new solution:
As a former senior living operator, I know first-hand how difficult it can be to stay on top of scheduling. It’s sometimes brutal, and I’ll be the first to admit that calling a staffing agency to fill a last-minute shift is the “easy button”, according to Charles Mann, Founder of Accushield.
In my experience, the call-out technologies in the market today see low staff utilization, hence the continued increase in staff agency spending across the country. At times we must think like a staffing agency and utilize the same technology agencies use to recruit, engage, schedule, and retain talent. This is exactly what the Flex workforce scheduling solution offers,” Mann continues.
Share news and updates instantly to improve communication within your organization-wide and engage your team with Accushield’s Flex today. Access to Flex’s full feature set is available to all Accushield customers.
For more details, check out this page.
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Accushield is a healthcare technology company. Our onsite hardware and software provide visitor/staff management, infection prevention and control, and health/safety compliance via automation and reporting.
