Creating Week Types
When planning your services throughout the year, many organisations find that the type of services they provide will vary depending on the different pressures and priorities at various times. For example, the type of rota or services provided during the week of Christmas or the week leading up to Christmas might differ from those in a standard week of the year. It might also be that you allow different numbers of people to be on annual leave at different times of the year.
To give you the flexibility to plan your services to meet these pressures effectively, ensuring you meet your patients’ needs efficiently while also allowing your staff to have the time off they deserve, we have created a feature that enables you to plan for these weeks by creating them in our system and automatically planning different leave rules and rotas for these times of the year.
You will typically start needing to use these features when setting leave rules, but their real power is revealed when you use them to plan different organisational templates for various levels of service provision at different times of the year. See our section on Rotas and Organisational Templates for more details.
The steps you need to follow to set these up are:
1. Decide how many different types of weeks you want (this list will probably grow over time).
2. Create these different week types.
3. Decide when you want these different weeks to apply
