VERA: Employee Management System
Our online dashboard and your new best friend
Your school or academy is full of data about your employees, but all too often this data exists in ‘silos’ and it is very difficult to get an employee view of the information. Whilst developing the VERA employee management system, we talked to schools and they told us of their frustrations;
- Having to input employee data across multiple systems
- Systems not ‘talking’ to each other
- Frustrations at not being able to do simple things, like view employee payroll history, easily
- Rigid reporting and analysis that did not allow to drill down into the data
- Non-user friendly interfaces
Vera solves all these problems, and more.
Introducing VERA
VERA brings together your payroll, HR and pension data into one employee management portal and allows you to access and manipulate that data.
VERA presents each school / Academy or MAT with an HR view of their employees, allowing you to drill down into payroll data and also handle routine tasks such as tracking changes to contracts, absence management and handling communications with our payroll team.
Here’s what VERA can do for your school:
- Secure online payroll submission, approval and archiving
- Web based so no software to install and is available 24/7 whenever you have web access
- All employee data is gathered in one place allowing you an employee-centric view
- Pension management and auto enrolment communications
- Flexibility on how you view and access your payroll, HR and pension information be period, employee, department or school
- A full range of sickness absence tools
- Powerful reporting tools including heatmaps and calendar views
- Prompt and reminders for key tasks
Key features
- Central dashboard with a to-do / task list and required actions
- Smartforms to allow you to process updates using data you already hold
- Staffing and HR overview
- Access to individual employee records
- Easy communication between Employee / Employer / Dataplan
- Absence tracking, notifications and reporting
- Return to work processes
- Produce salary and distribute salary statements
- Contracts overview (when Contracts Administration option taken)
- Comprehensive reporting
- Pension management and auto enrolment communications
- View of payroll input / approval and payment dates
- Manage employees ePayslip accounts
- Online ticket system to track your ‘Ask VERA’ messages
If you would like to see a free demo of the VERA employee management system, contact us or call 03331 128000
Get to grips with Absence Management
Figures issued by Department of Education showed that the average days lost per teacher due to sickness was 9.2
Managing absence is an area where VERA is invaluable to your school or academy. Not only does she give you the tools to track and monitor absences, she also gives you a system to handle processes such as return to work procedures.
Triggers and alerts can be set up in VERA that are aligned with your sickness absence policy and actively bring absences to your attention long before they trigger an impact on pay. VERA allows you to calculate the Bradford Factor for each employee in real time and view an employee’s absence record in calendar view, including the Bradford Factor score.
Templates and documents for return to work can be set up which automatically pulls in the absence information you have input onto one simple return to work document.
