SDMS V HRPersonnel is more than a personnel system. It encompasses all the major functions of today’s personnel and training department – a mission critical system to ensure the best in Human Resource management practice from recruitment to retirement.
In addition, SDMS V HRPersonnel is supplied in specific sector editions for Social Services, Probation, Health, Universities, and of course Colleges of Further and Higher Education. Each sector edition draws on the expertise of leading practitioners in each sector to ensure that the general features of one of the best HR Personnel Systems available today is delivered with specific features, enhancements and complete modules for that sector.
SDMS V HRPersonnel for Windows: FE College Edition
The FE College Edition has many features specifically designed for HR management in Colleges. While too numerous to list all of them, the most prominent are:
- Multi-posting: job sharing and part time contracts
- Pay scales and pay points with discretionary points and bars
- Automatic Increment Administration
- SIR Data and Returns Module
- Visiting Teacher Management Module
- Equal Opportunities
- Variable Contracts Control
- FE Teacher Pensions Return
- Visiting Teacher Module
SDMS Visiting Teacher Module
The Visiting Teacher Module is designed to meet the specific requirements that colleges have for managing visiting teachers. This module is fully integrated into SDMS V HRPersonnel and shares the features of this system, together with ensuring that part time staff and visiting teacher management is an integral part of the College’s HR function. It provides:
- Visiting Teacher Personal Details for actual or potential part time staff following initial enquiry, with record of name, address, telephone number etc., relevant qualifications and competencies.
- Record of availability in terms of day (morning, afternoon, twilight, evening) and days or periods of non-availability.
- Ability to record teaching and other skills offered by subject, programme area, age group, course, and qualification. Department division of the college available to work in can also be flagged.
- Previous classes taught or the work undertaken at the college
- Police Check
- Visiting Teacher Contract Details: hourly rate, scale, agreed amounts
- Contracts by specified work details or variable hours contracts
- Automatic Production of contracts, with mail merge and templates
- Monthly (period) claim management
- Calculation of Gross Pay for payroll preparation
- Departmental Visiting Teacher Cost Reporting
- Matching features to match Visiting Teachers by skill, subject, availability to college requirements
- Integrates with SIR Module
- Wise Owls, Checklists and Quick Administrators
- Payroll Export
- Extensive Reports
The module supports management of part time or occasional lecturers, full time lecturing staff with additional part time contracts, variable hours contract staff and part time and casual non-teaching staff. Such staff can be managed across the College as a whole, for departments, faculties, divisions, teams, and of course, by subject, course or programmes areas.
Visiting Teacher matching allows part time staffing pool data to be searched for suitability and availability by:
- Day and Time
- Subject or Programme Area
- Age Group
- Previous Courses Taught
- Qualifications
So that staff can be matched to requirements. The software produces a shortlist of matching part time staff, from which a suitable candidate can be offered a part time contract.
