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IQTimecard Helps With Scheduling and Employee Wellbeing as Welsh Union Calls For Home Care Support(Cision Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) As Unison Cymru calls for more support for their army of homecare providers around the country, IQTimecard is encouraging more providers of domiciliary care to focus on scheduling and employee wellbeing in order to boost service levels for clients. IQTimecard is a time and attendance solution used by hundreds of homecare providers across the country – including Home Instead, currently ranked the best provider by the Care Quality Commission. The solution helps to improve employee scheduling and manage payroll systems easily and effectively, ensuring that businesses are best placed to monitor and care for their staff and their clients. The Welsh union is calling for greater recognition of those employees working in home care, but says that legislation is letting both workers and their clients down. Many councils in the area restrict homecare visits to 15 minutes – a figure that has been frowned upon by many experts, especially for clients suffering from dementia. Wages, secure contracts and petrol costs have also been big talking points for the union, which wants client dignity to be at the heart of the service. Experts state that homecare services improve with the wellbeing and support of workers – and IQTimecard offers a multifunctional way to offer this support to staff members. David Lynes, Director of IQTimecard, says, “There is strong evidence to say that safe and effective domiciliary care is better achieved when homecare workers are treated fairly. Having a productive and happy workforce can go a long way to ensuring that all client needs are met. Our workforce management solution integrates with payroll to ensure that everything from rota scheduling to holiday pay calculations is carried out with ease.” He adds, “Supervisors can better monitor their staff and focus on providing the resources and the support necessary for them to be great homecare workers – without becoming distracted by paper timesheets or extensive scheduling issues.” Workforce monitoring solutions like IQTimecard help to carry out the jobs of multiple people, freeing up staff in HR and payroll to focus on other elements of the business. The sophisticated software offers numerous features and report functionality, which means businesses will never fall foul of things like the Working Time Regulations or the National Minimum Wage laws. Managers can see exactly how many hours their employees are putting in, how much travel time they need to be compensated for in a day, and how long they spend at each client location – ensuring that they can better manage schedules and ensure the needs of their clients are being met every day. To find out more about IQTimecard and the changes it could make to your remote workforce, visit their website: http://www.iqtimecard.com/ Editor’s Note: Issued by Dakota Digital. Please direct queries to Lauren Carroll. Email: [email protected]. Tel: 0161 818 9624 About IQTimecard: IQTimecard is a fully hosted and managed remote workforce management solution using cutting-edge telephony services, all of which have been developed to provide low cost, comprehensive real time information on workforce activity. This information was brought to you by Cision http://news.cision.comhttp://news.cision.com/dakota-digitalltd/r/iqtimecard-helps-with-scheduling-and-employee-wellbeing-as-welsh-union-calls-for-home-care-support,c9645247 (c) 2014 Cision. All Rights Reserved. |