🚀 Latest releases 🚀
📝 New Feature: Internal Shift Notes! 📝
✅ You can add internal notes to any shift for various purposes.
📹 Use it to record shift posting reasons, reasons for rejecting the shift, for no longer needing it or any other needed internal information.
💡 These notes are visible to all who have access to view the shift from the web app
Things to note:
⏰ Each note is timestamped with your name for accurate tracking.
🚫 Notes cannot be deleted.
📝 If you wish to issue an amendment, create a new note
💡 These notes will be recorded on the shift's audit trail.
💡 If you’re posting multiple shifts at once you will get the option of cloning the note you’re making across all shifts
📢 Subtle change on the Rate Indication on the mobile app’s Shift Cards! 🎉
We've made a subtle change to how we display the rate indication on the worker’s shift card 🔄 💼
What’s changed 👩⚕️👨⚕️✨
The indicative pay rate may show ‘Up to’ as a prefix on shift cards. This is to indicate that there may be variations depending on the way the rate may vary as the shift progresses and/or the worker’s grade/band.
🔍 Under the hood: Workers will see ‘up to’ in the following cases 👀💡
✨ If a shift has a variable rate based on the time of the date
✨ If a shift’s pay rate varies depending on a worker’s grade or band. When they go in the shift’s details they will now see the lowest grade/band shown first
✨ If a shift’s pay has a fixed element (i.e non resident) and an hourly rate for its resident elements. We will only display the highest non resident element without attempting to estimate the hourly rate elements
🚀 Introducing Retrospective Shift Booking! 🚀
To ensure the submission of adhoc timesheets are only used in exceptional cases, we are excited to introduce the functionality which allows you to create shifts retrospectively in Locum’s Nest
✅ Depending on your system permissions (driven by your organisation’s policy) you can now create shifts retrospectively in Locum's Nest.
✅ Book workers onto bank shifts in the past for shifts which may not have been advertised in time
✅ Available immediately!
Good practice guidelines:
📢 Always try to advertise bank shifts in advance.
⏰ Always approve healthcare workers before shift start date.
💼 This ensures accurate cost centre reporting, ensures correct rates are applied and reduces payroll/financial reporting errors.
Creating Retrospective Shifts:
🕑 Only post shifts in the past on the rare occasions when the shift is not on Locum's Nest (e.g., out of hours).
✅ Use "Got Someone in Mind”, otherwise known as ‘pre-match’ feature to match the worker to the shift.
🆘 Need support or training? Contact support@locumsnest.co.uk
Thank you for your feedback and support! 🙌
About multiple overlapping applications
✅ To increase their chances of finding a shift at their preferred date and times, some HCPs choose to hedge their bets by applying to multiple shifts overlapping the same time period.
However, the platform will only allow:
❌ A candidate to be accepted onto one shift within the same time period.
❌ Once accepted for a shift, any other applications which may overlap with that same time period will be automatically rejected. If you have any questions, please reach out to our support team at support@locumsnest.co.uk.
Your audit log just got easier to access!
⬇️ Click into the bottom of every shift or timesheet to see any activity which has taken place
✅ Easily resolve any query in seconds
🔍 Improve decision making based on the audit log
Escalate shift rates with ease!
🚩 Flag multiple shifts at a time as ‘escalated’
👀 Attract more candidates by signposting the escalation to all candidates and to payroll
⚠️ Control the configuration in the best way that suits your organisation by controlling who is able to mark shifts as escalated
Interested to activate this feature? Book a meeting here
Introducing Candidate Tags!
🏷 Tag your staff with certain attributes like ‘Bank only’ or ‘Weekly payroll’ which will help you better run workflows such as payroll, compliance checks, staff bank list updating etc
🎬 Use Action Tags to enable or restrict staff activity on the platform
📊 Keep reporting simple with easy-to-use reporting capabilities
🧐 Want to find out more? Book a call here
Share documents with your Collaborative
📩 Quickly and painlessly share candidate documents (such as CVs) with other Organisations which are members of your own collaborative
🔐 Share more securely than email with industry-leading data encryption and authentication in place
👩🏽⚖️ Ensure GDPR and personal privacy compliant sharing between organisations
Interested to get a tour? Book a meeting here
Locum’s Nest Community V2 is now live!!
✅ Easily push multimedia content to your workforce
📝 Create diverse and engaging surveys with rich data analytics
🎥 Interact with your staff with full screen video posts
🙋♀️ Access helpful content tips
Want to see it in action? Book yourself a tour here
Maximum duration rules
⏰ Shifts and timesheets can be configured to have a maximum allowed duration.
⏰ This allows your organisation to stay compliant with working time regulations
⏰ To find out more or for help configuring this setting book a meeting here
Help is at hand with the Help Centre
(formerly known as Owl University)
❓💬 Our rich FAQ and knowledge articles are now a lot more accessible;
❓💬 Get answers to your questions by clicking on the floating owl
❓💬 Contact our friendly support team directly from your web app
The mobile app is getting a new face
📲 The best-rated app in the industry has just got even better with a brand new look and feel of its home screen
📲 More exciting developments are on the way!