[sims] Staff - Current staff need employment dates?

[chriscubed]

We have numerous staff who have joined us through Schools Direct, or on a long term agency cover basis who don't appear as "Current Staff" in SIMS.

 

HR have added them with a Service Agreement only, but no employment start date. Is this a normal way to handle staff in these situations? It's frustrating that they don't appear in searches for current staff.

 

Would there be anything stopping them from having employment dates as well as service agreements? Or would this make the workforce census records incorrect, as we'd have more employees listed than we really have?

[Ecclesbury]

I'm not in the state sector now so I might be wrong, but from memory there is a 'Include in SWR' (or similar) flag in the staff record somewhere. Just make sure this flag is correctly assigned so that the member of staff isn't counted in the workforce return.

 

I have certainly worked in a school in the past that had employment dates for PGCE students etc so it shouldn't cause a problem. Always worth checking with HR though in case it affects how they keep their single central record.

[bobsmith]

I used to think the same as your HR dept, but it's wrong.

 

ALL staff with service agreements OR contracts need an employment start date. It simply makes their record active - it doesn't cause issues in CENSUS as they go by either a contract or a service agreement.

[chriscubed]

Thanks guys, I thought this would be the case.

 

HR seem OK with putting the employment dates in now, so hopefully they can make it part of their procedure for adding new staff in SIMS.