As a new starter to the Trust I have found HealthRota very easy to use. I also really like the iCal feature linking it directly to my personal calendar. The ability to request annual leave and study leave with an ongoing tally of the amount used is also a great feature.
Most other competitors that report to allow self-rostering have got the process a little wrong. I email everyone on the rota and they login and people self-allocate their shifts, but with other systems I would have to ‘ok’ each one of those requests and when you’re looking at almost 2000 shifts every two months, that’s just not possible. The fact that HealthRota almost “crowdsources” this part of it, makes things really quite simple.
I think it’s great – especially because you can choose the weekends you’d rather not work because of other commitments.
I like HealthRota – mainly because I can see who else is on with me for that day, or when I have to hand the bleeps over in the morning (or collect them from the night shift reg) I know who to contact. Similarly, if on a weekend then I know who will be about.
The rotas are easy to view on the app and you can see how good the cover is on any given day. It is also very useful being able to request annual leave whenever you want to rather than having to fit it in between on-calls.
I was able to ensure I had my wedding off this year! If I had not been able to do this, I would have had to locum for a year as I couldn’t guarantee the time off in any other job.
HealthRota is brilliant to use for my team as shift workers, it has cut down in staff needing to email for leave.
The use of an app that both fairly and clearly allocates shifts is vital. I have previously had rota patterns go wrong and ended up working extremely unfairly and software like HealthRota reassures me that the system is fair and it is easy to get study leave off.
This is such a great system – I have received 100% of the annual leave and unavailable days I have requested in both my clinical fellow job and my current training job. It makes such a difference not feeling that sense of dread when trying to get annual leave granted for important life events and marking unavailable days where you actually want your zero days is so much better than having them randomly allocated to days that are not useful. It is an excellent system and a massive selling point.
It saved us. It was amazing. If you can imagine a control room with your Chiefs planning your team, that is what we did. We were able to stop everyone from moving around and still ensured our workforce got regular breaks, their annual leave when requested and that we still had sufficient capacity to meet the demands of the Covid pandemic despite the number of staff not able to work. We built resilience into the team and so during wave one, not one doctor felt that they were being overworked. It was unbelievable.
Easy to use, brilliant way of swapping shifts and picking up locum shifts.
HealthRota and the flexibility/annualisation and transparency that comes with it, the work/life balance my colleagues experience following the introduction into our department have all been instrumental in recruiting recently appointed new consultants and current senior registrars being attracted to working at RSCH/PRH and applying for jobs in the near future.