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SDMS Staff Development and Learning Management – College Edition and SDMS
e-Training for Web and Intranet Access:
Marlene Farley, System Administrator, College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London
“As the College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London, we are a vocational Further Education College, dedicated to giving the best possible education and training to all of our students, no matter what they have achieved before. We were formed in August 2009 following the merger of The College of North East London (CONEL) and Enfield College, making us one of the largest Colleges for further education in the United Kingdom.
The College of North East London has used SDMS to help manage staff development and training in the College since 1993. Since then both the College and the software have seen many changes, but the College has found that SDMS has always been able to cope and we have continued to record and manage training with SDMS. Our Beacon status means that we are recognised as one of the Country’s very best Colleges, delivering outstanding and innovative teaching and training to both students and our staff. We expect this to continue with the new merged College and are currently in the process of looking at how the use of software can be extended to cope with this.
Since the introduction of the Institute for Learning requirement to track the amount of time our staff spend on Continuous Professional Development (CPD), we have found that the SDMS application allows for us to record the teacher registration and Criminal Record Checks we have made.
We rely heavily on SDMS to keep track of the cost of training and use the Budget Management module to keep track of the specific money spent across the cost categories we have identified as being key within the College. We also record the evaluations that staff complete as an integral part of our training.
During 2010, we hope to move forward with the implementation of the On Line Web application, which will allow us to devolve some of the more time consuming tasks such as entering evaluation forms by staff themselves and by giving staff access to their own training records. With this, we hope to allow the Colleges 900 staff to log on to the software to complete their own training evaluations giving perhaps better and speedier feedback on the quality of the training we provide.” College of Haringey, Enfield and North East London
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SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows
St Cuthbert’s Hospice, Karen Grigg, H.R. Manager:
“St. Cuthbert’s Hospice, has been helping the people of Durham, Chester-le-Street and Derwentside to make every day count since 1988.
St. Cuthbert’s Hospice provides a range of care and support services to individuals, as well as to their relatives and carers, helping people to cope with life limiting illnesses.
We are a local charity and make no charge for our services, relying on fundraising and community support in order to continue to do our essential work and have chosen SDMS Ltd to provide its HR Management Information System (SDMS HRPersonnel for Windows).
As with most Hospices and Care Homes we face the increasing challenge of maintaining accurate and up-to-date information on both staff and volunteers to satisfy the increasing statutory, regulatory requirements and inspections, as well as our own internal needs of day to day management. Following some market research we found that SDMS Ltd provided a highly professional, proven and cost effective system which appeared to address most of our needs. The Company proved to be very flexible in responding to our requirements as they became clearer through a series of On Line Presentations of the software and discussions. While perhaps small in terms of staff numbers; Hospices such as St Cuthbert’s have the same requirements as very much larger organisations with large IT budgets. SDMS proved to be very flexible in its pricing strategy.
The Company also responded superbly to our need for a speedy implementation. Following an On Line Project Planning Meeting which took us through the process around how best to implement the software, we will be undertaking a number of On Line and On Site Training Days to help implement the software. Our existing staff and volunteer data is being migrated to SDMS and the implementation is now gathering speed.
As well as implementing the Personnel application we will also look at using the Recruitment and Selection module to enter applicant details and for this to then feed through the recruitment cycle to update the staffing and volunteer information. We also look forward to introducing the Staff Rostering and Scheduling Module which we feel will allow us to improve the production and management of what is continuously a complex problem of maintaining the right staff in the right place at the right time. To help with this SDMS will be providing additional specialist consultancy to set up three of our existing Rosters to accelerate the learning curve.”
St Cuthberts Hospice
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SDMS Simplex CPD Learning Manager for Schools
Miss Lynn Houghton, Training School Manager, Cheam High School
“Cheam High School is a Foundation Co-Educational Comprehensive School judged as “Outstandingly Effective” by OFSTED. To us, Staff Training is extremely important, and our staff attend a wide range of courses designed to maintain our “consistently good” teaching status. We have chosen SDMS Simplex CPD Learning Manager for Schools following a Trial Download of the product which we used for only two weeks before we saw the benefits the software had to offer us. We were originally storing our training records on an Excel spreadsheet but with SDMS Simplex we can easily report on all CPD and staff training within the School, whether teachers, or School administrative staff. This allows us to provide the sort of information regularly asked for by the School for the Governors and allows us to effectively track and monitor the training which our staff have attended.
The implementation and installation was completed quickly and easily and the training was thorough and interesting. I have also had experience of the SDMS Support procedures and found the service to be prompt and very helpful. Where I have found areas of improvement for the software these have been recorded and implemented. I can already see that SDMS Simplex will be of huge benefit to me and the School".
SDMS Simplex CPD Learning Manager for Schools
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SDMS Academy and Youth Development for Windows
Colin McLaren, Rochdale Football Club’s Training and Development Officer, said about how they use the SDMS Academy and Youth Development for Windows:
“As a Club in the Fourth Tier of the Football Pyramid, Rochdale FC has been running a Centre of Excellence for many years; currently both the youth team and the First Team are well positioned in their current leagues with the First Team looking well placed to win promotion to the First Division. After hearing about SDMS, the Club wanted a simple to use yet comprehensive system which would provide them with a system which was more than a simple spreadsheet. One of the main features we find that helps greatly is that we recently started to set up all our standard letters for young players and a lot of time was saved just by this. The great benefit is time saving – jobs which used to take 2 days before we used SDMS, now take a couple of hours. And of course, once the information is entered it can be used many times for different jobs – we use the excellent mail merge facilities of the software for all player-related letters. We now plan to look at using more of these features to produce standard letters for our Scouting Staff.”
Rochdale Football Club
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SDMS Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows:
Mr Adrian Egglestone, Head of Training and Development, University of the West of Scotland:
“We had been using spreadsheets within the HR and Training Team for some time to help manage and administrator the delivery of the training to staff within the University of the West of Scotland, when we became aware of the product range offered by SDMS.
After having a number of On Line Presentations and attending a further presentation at one of their Product Roadshows in Edinburgh, we decided that that we would need to explore in greater detail the software and options the Company had to offer. SDMS offered to come On Site and present the software to a wider audience and has confirmed our view that the product met our primary requirements and could make a valuable contribution to the Universities plans and aspirations for improved staff development and learning for all of its staff.
We decided that the SDMS Staff Development application would meet our needs and have gone through a lengthy process of looking at the best options for purchase. SDMS has a well proven project approach to get new purchasers such as ourselves up and running in the shortest possible time. The Company provided us with a draft plan setting out key actions and dates for installation and training which we discussed at an On Line Project Meeting. This simplified much of what we knew we had to do - we are now in the early stages of the Implementation Process and look forward to reaping the benefits.
We will initially use the application to keep track of the training staff within the University have undertaken and we can see not only the details of training done by individuals, but are able to track the training which staff should have undertaken based on their job role. In addition, we will be using the training evaluation module to help us get a better picture of the value the training we provide has for staff and their work. We are confident that the software will meet all of our current and future needs.”
University of the West of Scotland
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SDMS Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows:
Welsh Social Services Edition:
Fran Owen, Administrative Assistant, Ceredigion Social Services:
“Located on the West Coast of Wales, the training department of Ceredigion Social Services provide help and support to the local Social Care workforce in the delivery and provision of personal social services for adults, children and families. After deciding to purchase the SDMS Staff Development application in 2000, we have been actively using it to record details of all training courses, both internal and external as well as ensuring that a full and accurate picture is kept of staff development. Ensuring that social care staff are offered and are involved in ongoing training and professional development is essential to the quality of services we provide.
Once we became familiar with the software, from the data we had entered, we were able to help provide the necessary details on our staff’s qualifications and their training so we could complete the necessary Staffing Returns. To help facilitate this, we also integrated with our personnel department who provided us basic staff details which are regularly imported into SDMS.
We are now looking at working more closely with the Personnel Department in the production of the Annual Staffing Returns and also in the process of extending the use of SDMS functionality to ensure that all the details for the completion of the National Minimum Data Set and Welsh Government returns are held within SDMS.”
Ceredigion Social Services
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SDMS Academy and Youth Development for Windows:
John Murray, Heart of Midlothian Football Club’s Academy Director, said about the decision to purchase SDMS Academy and Youth Development for Windows:
“Being a well established Scottish Premier League team at Hearts, we have an excellent tradition of running a professional Academy producing players that have gone on to represent their Country and also play for other leading teams across the UK. Basic player records on young players have been held in Excel worksheets, but with the extension of our work we have been looking for a more comprehensive but nevertheless affordable way of doing this. We had heard of SDMS through their work with some of the Clubs in England and so decided to look in detail at what SDMS Academy could offer. The quality of the information provided and the ease of looking at the software with a member of the SDMS staff on line helped us to our decision. A brief on line project meeting has helped us to move forward rapidly in implementing the new software and with the Data Take On from Excel being done by SDMS, we expect to be using the system for live by the end of October.”
Heart of Midlothian Football Club
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SDMS Staff Development and SDMS e-Training for Web and Intranet Access:
Stephanie Davies, Systems Administrator, Newport Social Services:
“Newport Social Services provides training and ongoing support to the social care workforce within the Newport area in South Wales. Increasingly, as joint working arrangements proliferate, our provision of workforce development services is being extended to social care, health and allied professionals across South East Wales, necessitating robust and efficient management and administrative systems. Since implementing the first elements of our SDMS applications within the organisation in 2002, we are now providing an annual 6000 training places per annum and have input some 13 years worth of social services training records into our data base.
During the last financial year (2009-2010) we were able to offer places to staff on some 600 training courses, all of which we manage and administer with SDMS Staff Development. We have also been able to use the information which SDMS enables us to gather, to provide statistical data for our annual returns to both the Care and Social Services Inspectorate Wales (CSSIW) and the Local Government Data Unit.
We have worked closely with the SDMS team to implement the SDMS Learning and Skills module which assists our Newport Assessment Centre’s NVQ administrative team to manage our Awarding Body’s procedural and statistical requirements, and to track the achievement of our NVQ candidates.
We are now well into the process of extending the use of SDMS further by introducing the SDMS e-Training for the Web and Intranet Access module. This will allow us to provide on line booking facilities for the employees of our commissioned agencies and the Council’s staff.
We are confident that the SDMS team will continue to offer the same high level of support during this new phase of product implementation as we have received over the past 7 years.”
Newport Social Services
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SDMS Staff Development and SDMS e-Training for Web and Intranet Access:
Leigh Barber, Administrative Assistant, West Sussex LEA:
“West Sussex is the tenth largest Local Authority in the Country and deals with nearly 300 Schools. We have been using the different versions of SDMS software since 1995, from the original DOS application, through the first upgrade to the Windows product and beyond. We make extensive use of SDMS, not only for planning and administering the training offered to Schools, but also for reporting to various key stakeholders in the Authority – including Schools themselves... We make extensive use of the integrated Crystal Reports and benefit from the technical support provided with this by SDMS Support. Like many Authorities, we have now made the move across to On Line Course Enrolments using the SDMS e-Training for the Web module.
Over the years, SDMS has been implemented within the Authority, allowing us to provide a high level of support to our Schools and their Governors, showing how the training provided within the Authorities Schools is providing high quality, feature rich and most importantly relevant training. This in no small part has been helped by having a system such as SDMS to manage the Authorities training management and to keep pace with the changes in the role of the Authority over the years.”
West Sussex County Council
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SDMS S/NVQ Learning and Skills for Windows:
Sandie Hamilton, Skills Development Manager, Surrey County Council:
Surrey NVQ Consortium, founded in 1990, is part of the Human Resources Directorate of Surrey County Council. The NVQ Centre is dedicated to the development of skills for the Social Care workforce in Surrey. We are able to offer the opportunities to achieve National Vocational Qualification in the following areas: Health & Social Care, Registered Managers Award, Assessor & Verifier Awards, Hospitality, Management, Team Leading, Customer Service and Business Administration.
“The quality of learning offered through our NVQs is of course paramount to everything we do. And our existing in house computer system (developed in Excel) for recording and keeping track of NVQs and candidates had proven invaluable in this. In making the move to a commercially available product we took our time and carefully considered the alternatives.
We found SDMS NVQ Learning and Skills to be the best software in the market to deal with the management of NVQs since it brings the benefits of ease and saving administration time. The company was very flexible in its approach and was able to work within our budget and spending and at the same time included bespoke changes to the system which we needed but which its standard product did not offer initially and accommodated the need to migrate the data from our outgoing system. The implementation support has also been able to be delivered at our pace and our schedule with changes where necessary. We have now completed all key stages of the implementation - installation, training, data take on and software amendment – and are beginning to see the benefits which we hoped for”.
Surrey County Council
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SDMS Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows:
College Edition
Kate Colclough, CPD Coordinator, Myerscough College:
“Founded in the 19th Century, Myerscough College is located six miles north of Preston in Lancashire. Our main mission is to provide high quality education to all students in the local community. The College has been recognised by OFSTED as outstanding in all six categories that were under inspection. We have also gained the prestigious Training Quality Standard (TQS), which illustrates the high quality of training and development that we provide to businesses and their employees.
We have an active and extensive programme of Staff undertaking CPD to support all Staff in continuing to achieve such quality standards, the needs of students and their own professional development. As part of this commitment we have recently invested in SDMS Software. This replaces an In House System and will extend and improve our planning and day to day administration of staff development events and programmes. It is essential for us to have a way to record training of College Staff in order to recognise where training gaps are and to plan future training that can be provided as well as evaluating training as a whole. For this reason, SDMS Staff Development was chosen by us since it had the capabilities to meet these needs. We have now completed the initial phase of implementation – the software has been installed and we have completed a series of On Line User Training - which we found both effective and convenient. To help us move from our In House System; SDMS has migrated the data to the SDMS software – this includes course information and staff details from a database – obviously this has saved a significant amount of administration time. We have had continued support from SDMS Staff through the implementation process and are now in the process of “going live”.
Myerscough College
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SDMS V Staff Development for Windows: School Edition
Karen Nicholls, Head of Care, Oaklands Park School, Devon
“Oakland’s Park School is a very special Community School offering a range of education and care to children and young people with a range of special needs – these students aged from 2 - 19 come from all over the County of Devon.
As was recognised by OFSTED and ourselves in our last inspection, “The School rightly wishes to do more to recognise and promote their professionalism through improved training and formal feedback” (February 2007). As part of this improvement action plan, whereas we previously like many Schools used an Excel spreadsheet to record the training of our staff, to help make some of these changes we reviewed available software on the market and selected SDMS as the best affordable system to meet our needs. We have now installed the software and users have been trained - and even at this early stage we are beginning to see some of the benefits and look forward to further progress in the coming months.”
Oaklands Park School Website
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SDMS V Staff Development for Windows: Welsh Social Services Edition
Kate Hood, Training Coordinator, Vale of Glamorgan Social Services:
“The Council’s Change Plan for Social Services is a long term plan, designed to achieve fundamental changes in the way in which the Social Services Department operates. As was identified in the Joint Review by Care and Social Services Inspectorate of Wales, the Council is well placed to sustain and improve services through its workforce planning, partnership working and the quality of induction, training and development.
The Vale of Glamorgan Social Service’s primary aim is to serve the members of the public and it’s commissioned providers by offering an extensive range of services through its Community Care and Health, Children and Family Services and Business Management & Innovation Divisions.
SDMS is being introduced to complement and extend the many areas of good practice in the department such as our annual training needs review and programme planning. It will provide us with a bedrock of easily accessible data to ensure that training needs are targeted and evaluated. We are now well into the process of implementing the software following project support, installation and initial training. Implementation plans are now in place taking us through the critical stages of needs analysis and programme planning in the autumn.
SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management will provide us with mechanisms for recording key staff and workforce data and the ongoing administration of training. We look forward to the benefits the software will clearly bring to our work.”
Vale of Glamorgan Social Services Website
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SDMS V HRPersonnel and Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows: College Edition
City of Westminster College offers some 250 full and part time courses to over 7,000 students each year in the heart of London (http://www.cwc.ac.uk)
David Pigden, Deputy Principal, City of Westminster College:
“The College has been a longstanding user of SDMS Software for staff development going back well into the 1990s and its software written for DOS. It was this that led us to look at SDMS Ltd’s personnel system when we reviewed the Colleges arrangements for Personnel Administration Software – the conclusion was that in 2005 we decided to purchase the Company's personnel system as well as the latest staff development and e-training software.
Since then the College has gradually implemented a range of functions in the personnel software to support the HR function. These include the maintenance of basic staff records, job and contract details for staff including part time staff, logging new starter information and staff recruitment as well as absence records. One of the most important jobs supported by SDMS is the processing of monthly part time pay claims and processing this data to payroll. A bespoke export sends this to our current payroll provider. Some of these processes have not been without issues and we are now working with SDMS to see how they can be simplified and the time and costs of key HR processes reduced.
Of course the inbuilt SIR module allows us to produce the individualised return relatively easily. The Company’s Staff Development Software has continued to be used as a basis for managing both training activities and costs of training in the College. Thought is now begin given to how this can help the College Appraisal arrangements and ways in which SDMS e-training for the web can be implemented".
City of Westminster College Website
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SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows: Schools Workgroup Edition
Heritage Specialist School, Chesterfield – Adrian Woodward, Assistant Head Teacher:
The Heritage Community School is a specialist School for mathematics and computing situated in Clowne in North East Derbyshire. A recent Ofsted inspection report (April 2007) confirmed the forward direction of the School stating: "...The quality of education has improved considerably since the last inspection, lessons are well taught and in the Mathematics specialism achievement is impressive... relationships are good and students are right to feel cared for... morale is high among staff and students and there is a powerful sense of purpose that further improvement must and will be achieved".
At the heart of the Schools strategies for this continued improvement is a focus on the training and development of both teaching and non-teaching staff
The School and its staff have an active and ambitious programme of training and continuous professional development. To ensure that this is well managed and evaluated against our plans we have invested in the purchase of SDMS V Staff Development. Our choice was based on not only the very extensive functions of the software to record CPD but also its extensive range of modules to support our work in staff appraisal and identifying training needs. While we are at the early stage of implementing the software we look forward to reaping the benefits it will bring as we begin the process of installation and training with SDMS staff.
Heritage Specialist School Website
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SDMS V Staff Development and Learning Management for Windows:
College Edition
Hopwood Hall College is a UK Government funded Further Education College based on two campuses in Rochdale and Middleton in Lancashire (http://www.hopwood.ac.uk).
Claire McGuire, Assistant Director for Quality, Hopwood Hall College:
“As a College providing a wide range of subjects and courses to members of the local community and business, the training and development of College Staff lies at the heart of our continuing drive to achieve the highest standards.
The College had previously used SDMS Software in its earlier versions and when we decided to review and update our software, looking at the latest offering from SDMS was an obvious choice.
The clear fit between the organisation of Staff Development in the College and what SDMS Software offered, together with its optional modules such as Training Needs and Evaluation, which we were looking to introduce, led us to purchase the latest version.
Recent developments in relation to the Institute for Learning and the response SDMS Ltd has made to this confirms our choice. In collaboration with the College SDMS has now developed a CPD Web Tool which allows staff to record their CPD on the College Staff Intranet with automatic data entry into the SDMS back office. This allows us to have a complete picture of all training and CPD done by Staff and to offer support where information may be required in the future by IfL. This module is now being implemented and the initial response from Staff using it is very positive.”
Hopwood Hall College Website
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SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows - Hospice and Care Edition
SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: Hospice and Care Edition has been developed with four Midlands Hospices and has many unique features to meet the special requirements of Personnel Management and Administration in Hospices. Here are some of the views of just some of those involved with this development.
Severn Hospice - Alan Terrill, IT Manager:
“I have been involved with the implementation of SDMS from its beginning with Severn Hospice. We were the last to join the SDMS Hospice Development Project, but as the existence of this software prompted us to take on a full time HR Advisor, we have been able to make use of it from the very start of our Personnel department. This was helped by a clear vision of what was required by our Chief Exec, Paul Cronin. Although there is much we still do not use, I am impressed by the many facilities available, and it is good to know these other parts are already there for when we need them.
Much of the newly released Rostering Module has been based on meetings with key Nursing Staff at Severn and we look forward to its gradual implementation.”
Severn Hospice - Ms Gaynor Taylor, HR Manager:
“Notwithstanding the inevitable teething problems that are associated with learning to use any new Personnel System SDMS V HRPersonnel is now an integral part of our Personnel Administration function”.
Severn Hospice Web Site
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St Giles Hospice - Breda Moloney, IT Manager:
“When we first become involved with the SDMS initiative we had a list of requirements we felt must be met including the ability of Team Leaders and Line Managers to access and update the records of their own Staff in order to reduce the burden on central functions and to share ownership for the correctness of Personnel information. We are a long way down the road to achieving this.”
St Giles Hospice Web Site
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Compton Hospice - Ron Middleton, CEO:
“We have found that the implementation of SDMS Personnel Software has provided a useful checklist for developing and improving our already substantial Personnel function. We are now looking forward to extending the number of Staff accessing it for day to day work and for implementing the Rostering Module with our Kitchen and Stewarding Rosta plus in due course our Nursing Duties and Volunteer Reception Duties."
Compton Hospice - Peter Edwards, IT Supervisor:
“It looks easy to use, I hate to say!”
Compton Hospice Web Site
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SDMS V NVQ/SVQ Learning and Skills Manager for Windows: Version 5
City Staff Services - Lee Moody, Managing Director:
“SDMS’s software for controlling and monitoring of our NVQ processes is an ideal tool for City Staff Services to manage its quality systems for the delivery of NVQ’s.
We are providing Security, Care and Cleaning NVQ’s across the UK and this system allows us to administer the whole process centrally keeping track of learner targets, assessor workload and quality control of our service delivery.
Customer satisfaction is vital to the success of our Company and we are confident that the use of the SDMS’s software will underline our commitment to quality with our clients.
The system implementation went very smoothly with training carried out over a web link which allowed us to quickly get to grips with the basics and start using the system more or less from day one, support is always available at the end of the phone”.
Craft Services Group Web Site
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SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows - Version 5
Bethesda Hospice, Carol Sommerville, Hospice Administrator:
“Bethesda Care Home and Hospice have chosen SDMS Ltd to provide its
HR Management Information System (SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows). As a major provider of Hospice Care in the Hebrides we are faced
with the increasing challenge of maintaining Personnel information
to satisfy Statutory Requirement Inspections, as well as our own
internal needs of day to day management. Our research of the Market,
led us to SDMS Ltd who could meet our needs with a proven, highly
professional and cost effective system. Importantly we were able to
talk directly with one of the Hospices they have been working with
for several years. Training and Support have been provided On Line
given our physical location and SDMS Support has been very helpful
at all stages of implementation.
We
are sure that as we progress with its use SDMS V HRPersonnel for
Windows will provide us with the means to extend our day to day
Personnel practice and we look forward to the introduction of the
Staff Rostering and Scheduling Module which we feel will allow
us to improve the management of what is continuously a complex
problem of maintaining the right staff in the right place at the
right time”.
Throughout this process SDMS was keen to address our needs – both in
terms of the need to upgrade, a price that could fit within our very
tight budgets and in offering additional services”.
Bethesda Hospice Website
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SDMS V Staff Development for Windows: Version 5
Pradip Panchmatia, Training Manager,
Nottinghamshire
Safeguarding Children Board:
“Nottinghamshire
Safeguarding Children Board (NSCB) exists to protect all children
from abuse and to provide the highest standards of practice towards
the safeguarding of children. A key part of our work is of course to deliver a wide
variety of Training Courses on Safeguarding Children to all Staff
and Agencies who have a role in this within Nottinghamshire.
As part
of Nottinghamshire County Council we have used SDMS Software for
many years and have come to rely on it as our main Software System
in the delivery of our training programmes. Following recent
organisational changes within the Council we were faced with a
decision: do we stay with SDMS Software or move to a new system with
all the issues involved in such a decision? Following discussions
with SDMS Senior Staff and an On Line Presentation (which we found
very useful by the way) of the latest version - we had been using
Version 3, we have decided to continue to use SDMS and upgrade to
SDMS V Staff Development for Windows - Version 5.
Throughout this process SDMS was keen to address our needs – both in
terms of the need to upgrade, a price that could fit within our very
tight budgets and in offering additional services”.
NSCB Website
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SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: College
Edition
Ciaran Burns, Director of Finance & Estates, Christ
the King Sixth Form College:
“Christ
The King Sixth Form College has been named by Ofsted as being
outstanding in its prestigious Annual List. As the College’s needs
for improved management information became a vital component of our
operating criteria the purchase of a suitable Personnel Administration System to support the ongoing development of the
College’s HR function became an essential. After careful
consideration of our current needs at the time and with an eye to
future developments we chose SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows and have
now been using the Software for some 3 years. We have been impressed
by the scope of SDMS Ltd’s HRPersonnel System and the Training and
Support offered by the Company. The combination of these has proven
a wise choice.”
Christ the King Sixth Form College Website
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Doreen Curtis, HR Manager, Reflexion Care Solutions:
“We chose SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows to provide us with an effective solution to HR in what is for us a regulated and challenging environment. Our staff are critical to our business. We have recently purchased SDMS V HRPersonnel from SDMS Ltd and introduced INTEX EARNIE Payroll Executive to complement this. With this the scope and functionality of SDMS V HRPersonnel has improved further our HR management and control. Throughout the process SDMS have provided support and training to speedily implement the new systems both face to face and On Line confirming our decision to go with SDMS as the correct choice.”
SDMS V HR
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SDMS V e-Training for Web Access
Steve Davies, Neath and Port Talbot LEA:
“We have been a user of SDMS software for managing schools training since the early 1990s and have progressed through all its versions to the very latest. We have now completed a schools pilot of SDMS V e-Training and in the coming months are rolling it out to all Schools. The pilot has enabled us to iron out issues and to build a basis for extending it to all Schools under our own steam.”
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