Write the shift, not the paperwork
You are on the floor, on a phone or a tablet, and the record has to be done before you go home. Everything below is what that looks like on your first shift.
Your first morning
- A guided tour the first time you sign in — nobody runs a training day for it.
- You see your own home, and the young people placed in it. Nothing else is on your screen.
- Your own certifications and tasks, so you know what is expiring before someone tells you.
Where you work: Daily logs and the communication book
Guided sections rather than a blank box — wellbeing, meals and sleep, health, handover — so a shift note is a few fields rather than a blank page at the end of a long day. You sign it, submit it for review, and it is out of your hands.
What stops going wrong: a shift nobody wrote up
The log is structured, so it cannot be half-written and look finished. Medication is recorded dose by dose against your name at the time you give it — a missed or refused dose is recorded as exactly that, never left blank for somebody to fill in afterwards.
What you will not be able to do
- You cannot see another home’s records, or a young person who is not placed with you.
- You cannot approve your own log — that is a supervisor’s signature, not yours.
- You cannot edit a log once it is approved. A correction is an amendment, signed and dated, beside the original.
What it does not do
It will not write the shift for you. What it does is make sure that what you wrote is complete, signed, timestamped and impossible to lose.
The other two paths
Access follows the hierarchy an agency already has, so the same system looks different to each person on it.
See it on your own agency’s workflows
Forty-five minutes, with a person, on the records your staff actually fill in. We confirm a time by email within one business day.