One of the first steps when creating carer profiles in Nursebuddy, it is to set up their availability. In the tab Work Shift you can define what times of the day and what days of the week each carer is available to work with your company.
To set up their availability follow these steps:
1. Select People > Carers > Works shifts
2. You will see a weekly calendar view ready to add in shifts. Just click in the date and around the start time of the work shift and a pop up box will appear.
3. You can set the duration and the repetition of the shift in the pop up window.
In this example, the carer Annie Williams is available to work from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm during the weekdays. Note that in this case, she is not available to work on weekends:
We suggest creating shifts for as long as they're available that day so you can allocate client visits within this time.
Their payroll report take into account only visit times where a carer is assigned. Availability or work shifts are not pulled through the payroll report.
You can build work shifts according to what you and your carer have agreed to. In this other example, the carer is available to work Mon-Thu-Sat from 8:00 am to 4:00 pm and Wednesdays from 11:15 pm to 2:15 pm:
Note: You can also add work shifts in the Schedule page; just click the carer's name on the left and "add work shift".
If you do not set your carers availability or work shifts, their name won't appear in the scheduling page and to add them to the scheduling page you will have to see the option + Add
