Rostering

Efficient rostering tools that equip and empower

Birdie’s smart rostering tools enable you to spend minutes - not hours - on rostering, giving you more time with your team, your clients and your business.

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Why choose Birdie for

Rostering

?

Build rotas in minutes

With auto-allocation tools, templating and skills matching software, Birdie does the hard work for you.

Easily adapt to changes

Birdie lets you edit visit times, lengths and teams with ease, and quickly alert your colleagues of any changes.

Continuity of care

Build the most efficient rotas based on travel time, continuity, availability and location and replicate them whenever you’d like.

Simplified and streamlined scheduling

I’ve definitely noticed a big positive change in the team, because we’re all able to have more time to focus on the other areas of the business, and those back burner projects that always got pushed back.

Harrison Fensome

Managing Director

Caring Forever

What’s included?

Rota Templates

Map out your ideal rota and create a more predictable schedule of visits

Visit Management

Ensure your carers have a comprehensive list of tasks to complete on their call

Carer Utilisation

Seamlessly view how each carer's utilisation measures against their preferred working hours

Auto-Assign Tool

Save time and find optimal matches for all visits that remain unallocated

Scheduling Calendar

View a full week of scheduling for each client and carer within your service

Drag and Drop Tool

Quickly move visits and account for last-minute changes across your rota

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Frequently Asked Questions

What is Birdie?

Birdie is the smart homecare technology of the future, empowering care business of all sizes to transform the way they care, unlock a new way to operate, and build a supported workforce of carers. Our data-powered technology, from care management and auditing to rostering and finance, goes beyond just digitising your processes, instead empowering you with the innovative tools you need to make easier, faster and safer choices for you and your clients.

How does Birdie support last-minute changes to carer availability?

Birdie enables you to set the availability a carer has indicated they are free to deliver care. When that availability changes, due to an absence or illness for instance, our smart homecare technology enables to you respond quickly.

My staff aren’t tech-savvy… Is Birdie easy to use?

Yes! We work with hundreds of agencies all over the country and we hear this concern a lot. We’ve tested Birdie repeatedly to make sure it’s user-friendly, and make the business of caring easier. The easy to use interface is many of our clients' favourite part of Birdie.

Does Birdie support templates?

Yes! Birdie's templating tool will help you map out your ideal rota and help create a more predictable schedule of visits and assignments across your rota. When the template is created and applied, the platform will allocate the appropriate carers, in combination with their availability and groups, to assign visits.

What matching criteria does Birdie support?

Birdie knows how important it is to have the right information to make informed scheduling decisions. Our data-powered homecare technology enables you to have the following criteria at your fingertips: geographical location, team availability and absences, skills and trainings, continuity, declined carers and more!

Want to see what else is included?

This is just part of the wider Birdie platform, designed to support every part of your care business:

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Product roadmap

We’re committed to being transparent with our partners, whose feedback is vital to building products that solve real challenges in care. Check out our public roadmap to see what we're up to right now!

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At Birdie, we believe technology should be a catalyst for real change. That's why we're committed to helping homecare providers of any size realise ambitious goals.

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Efficient rostering tools that equip and empower

Birdie’s smart rostering tools enable you to spend minutes - not hours - on rostering, giving you more time with your team, your clients and your business.

Book a Demo

Build rotas in minutes

With auto-allocation tools, templating and skills matching software, Birdie does the hard work for you.

Easily adapt to changes

Birdie lets you edit visit times, lengths and teams with ease, and quickly alert your colleagues of any changes.

Continuity of care

Build the most efficient rotas based on travel time, continuity, availability and location and replicate them whenever you’d like.

Simplified and streamlined scheduling

Maintain continuity of care

Our tools let you build predictable schedules for the benefit of care professionals and care recipients

Replicate your preferred rota every week in a few quick steps with our template function
Create a schedule in a few clicks with our auto-assign function that builds rotas based on continuity, availability and geographical areas
Group a care professional’s regular visits into runs that can be saved and repeated
Use birdie Groups to schedule by geographical areas or service types

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React quickly to changes

birdie’s easy-to-use and flexible system mean last minute changes are no longer a problem

Drag and drop tools let you allocate carers, move visits and edit visit lengths with ease
Filter by care professional or care recipient to quickly view the schedule you’re looking to edit
Send out instant updates to your team to alert them of changes to their schedule
Access and edit all your rostering information in one, integrated platform that updates in real-time
Use our ‘find alternative carer’ function to quickly identify a suitable individual for each visit
Click on a visit to quickly access important details, including the care team and required skills

‍

01 / 03

Maintain continuity of care

Our tools let you build predictable schedules for the benefit of care professionals and care recipients

Replicate your preferred rota every week in a few quick steps with our template function
Create a schedule in a few clicks with our auto-assign function that builds rotas based on continuity, availability and geographical areas
Group a care professional’s regular visits into runs that can be saved and repeated
Use birdie Groups to schedule by geographical areas or service types

‍

01 / 03

React quickly to changes

birdie’s easy-to-use and flexible system mean last minute changes are no longer a problem

Drag and drop tools let you allocate carers, move visits and edit visit lengths with ease
Filter by care professional or care recipient to quickly view the schedule you’re looking to edit
Send out instant updates to your team to alert them of changes to their schedule
Access and edit all your rostering information in one, integrated platform that updates in real-time
Use our ‘find alternative carer’ function to quickly identify a suitable individual for each visit
Click on a visit to quickly access important details, including the care team and required skills

‍

01 / 03

Make the most of your team’s time

Manage your team’s preferences while maximising their time and their skills

View travel time between visits, minimising waiting time and reducing the risk of being late
Set maximum and minimum working hours for your team based on their preferences
Receive warnings about Working Time Regulation if you go over a care professional’s limit
Record training and competencies to ensure visits that require extra qualifications are undertaken by trained staff
View absences, holidays and working hours in one place to understand your agency’s capacity

‍

01 / 03

Maintain continuity of care

Our tools let you build predictable schedules for the benefit of care professionals and care recipients

Replicate your preferred rota every week in a few quick steps with our template function
Create a schedule in a few clicks with our auto-assign function that builds rotas based on continuity, availability and geographical areas
Group a care professional’s regular visits into runs that can be saved and repeated
Use birdie Groups to schedule by geographical areas or service types

‍

01 / 03

React quickly to changes

birdie’s easy-to-use and flexible system mean last minute changes are no longer a problem

Drag and drop tools let you allocate carers, move visits and edit visit lengths with ease
Filter by care professional or care recipient to quickly view the schedule you’re looking to edit
Send out instant updates to your team to alert them of changes to their schedule
Access and edit all your rostering information in one, integrated platform that updates in real-time
Use our ‘find alternative carer’ function to quickly identify a suitable individual for each visit
Click on a visit to quickly access important details, including the care team and required skills

‍

01 / 03

Make the most of your team’s time

Manage your team’s preferences while maximising their time and their skills

View travel time between visits, minimising waiting time and reducing the risk of being late
Set maximum and minimum working hours for your team based on their preferences
Receive warnings about Working Time Regulation if you go over a care professional’s limit
Record training and competencies to ensure visits that require extra qualifications are undertaken by trained staff
View absences, holidays and working hours in one place to understand your agency’s capacity

‍

01 / 03

Maintain continuity of care

Our tools let you build predictable schedules for the benefit of care professionals and care recipients

Replicate your preferred rota every week in a few quick steps with our template function
Create a schedule in a few clicks with our auto-assign function that builds rotas based on continuity, availability and geographical areas
Group a care professional’s regular visits into runs that can be saved and repeated
Use birdie Groups to schedule by geographical areas or service types

‍

01 / 03

React quickly to changes

birdie’s easy-to-use and flexible system mean last minute changes are no longer a problem

Drag and drop tools let you allocate carers, move visits and edit visit lengths with ease
Filter by care professional or care recipient to quickly view the schedule you’re looking to edit
Send out instant updates to your team to alert them of changes to their schedule
Access and edit all your rostering information in one, integrated platform that updates in real-time
Use our ‘find alternative carer’ function to quickly identify a suitable individual for each visit
Click on a visit to quickly access important details, including the care team and required skills

‍

01 / 03

Make the most of your team’s time

Manage your team’s preferences while maximising their time and their skills

View travel time between visits, minimising waiting time and reducing the risk of being late
Set maximum and minimum working hours for your team based on their preferences
Receive warnings about Working Time Regulation if you go over a care professional’s limit
Record training and competencies to ensure visits that require extra qualifications are undertaken by trained staff
View absences, holidays and working hours in one place to understand your agency’s capacity

‍

01 / 03

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Your time is precious - birdie helps you take it back.

“I’ve definitely noticed a big positive change in the team, because we’re all able to have more time to focus on the other areas of the business, and those back burner projects that always got pushed back”

‍

Harrison, Managing Director at Caring Forever

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Efficient rostering tools that equip and empower

Why choose Birdie for

Rostering

?

Build rotas in minutes

Easily adapt to changes

Continuity of care

Simplified and streamlined scheduling