Plait supports "phases" of employment, which are configured on the Employment Reqs tab of the Organisation form. Every organisation must have an In Post phase, and there are two optional phases: Probation and Induction. A care worker is then assigned to the appropriate phase by setting the correct value in the Employment Status field on the Employment tab of the care worker record. This field can only be changed if the carer satisfies the requirements of the phase they are being put into, and a graphic to the right of the field will highlight any unmet requirements or show that all the requirements for a phase have been met.
If the Induction phase is enabled then a further field appears on the Employment Reqs tab:
This allows you to add inductees to bookings that they are going to shadow, which has many advantages over setting up shadowing as a non contact event type or handling shadowing :
- Pay rates for time at bookings and time spent travelling will be handled properly.
- The system will have a record of which service users the inductee has had an introduction to.
- A record is kept of what tasks / medications etc have been shadowed.