The care home was previously owned by the armed forces charity Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Families Association (SSAFA), but they decided to sell it in order to focus on other areas. St Vincent’s home provides a home for ex-armed forces members and widows. 

 

Peter Sandiford, director of client services for SSAFA, said: "After making a strategic decision to move away from the care home sector, we wanted to make sure that St Vincent’s was sold as a trading care home so that our residents and staff would have continuity of where they lived and worked."

 

The new owner of St Vincent’s, Diane Radcliffe, added: "We are delighted to have purchased this well-known and performing care home from SSAFA.

 

"The care home offers us a good opportunity to build on its already good name and we look forward to getting to know our residents, their families and new colleagues."

 

Source: Insider Media South East

 

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Care homes are staffed 24/7 by care workers, receptionists, security guards and other members of staff. If it is also a nursing home, with specialist nurses on-site, they will also need to have a constant presence. This means that there is likely to be a large number of overlapping and/or irregular shifts. 

 

This is already difficult enough for supervisors to manage successfully. It is vital that there is a clear picture of who is in the building at any given time, not only for the security and reputation of the care home, but also for visitors’ safety in situations such as fire alarms. 

 

Our specialist time and attendance system records everyone’s entrance and exit from controlled doors, using either smartcards or more expensive but more secure biometric measurements. 

 

When the time and attendance clocking terminals from Time and Attendance Southern are linked into your company’s fire alarm system, any fire alarm activation will result in the printing of a fast, automated list of who is currently clocked into the building. This is more accurate than a paper sign-in sheet.

 

All the data from our system on when people went through controlled doors is exportable onto all major payroll programmes. We also have the Self Service Module, which can be accessed from a browser or from your mobile via the app (available on Android and iOS). This enables employees to sign in and out and request holiday. 

 

If the clocking in/out is done from a mobile, the information is transferred to the central Tensor.NET application, including GPS position data so that you can make sure your remote employees, such as community carers, are where they should be at that time.