What are workforce pools?
Workforce pools provide a useful grouping of a mixed workforce.
Pools can support an intuitive, priority based approach to solving rota requirements.
The pools help to segment and understand your workforce, in terms of of trust, work commitment, accessability and cost.
The workforce pools,
- Partners
- Employed staff (not a partner)
- Staff bank
- Staff bank flexible staff
- Flexible staff
———— - Network locums
Tempo workforce pools in relation to your hub and the wider network
Work plans
Within a hub workforce, some staff will have a work plan.
This is a defined and agreed pattern of weekly work, spanning a time period. Work plans can cover whole financial years or parts of a year. Work plans can combine iver a year, to create a whole entitlement. Work plans can be inactive when no longer in date and a user only ever has 1 active work plan. The active plan has a date in the future or no end date.
Within a workforce, staff accounts that are contracted to the hub organisation have a work plan. This defines their agreement of work, pay and entitlements (for the plan).
There are 2 types of work plan: the first, the basic type that every eligible staff user will have, just contains a breakdown of the contracted hours the user will work within that hub, in hours or sessions, per day.
A user can have a work plan with multiple hubs but work plans cannot overlap.
Work plans form the basis of entitlements and pay for a hub and allow auto calculation of overtime and TOIL from rotas.
Annualiased flexible work plans
Some staff users want to create a special agreement with a hub, to work parts of the year. An example of this is the term time contract.
We use annualised work plans to handle this.
An annualised plan, allows a pre-defined amount of the year to be deducted within the agreement and for entitlements to follow naturally.
Users with annualised plans and users with ordinary plans can then see a live running calculation of their entitlements and deductions, TOIL and more and can use the built in tools within their account to request and book time-off across all types, paid and unpaid, deductible and non-deductible.
