Care Home Staff user guide
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When you visit the website you will be asked for your user name and password.
If you do not remember these details or you have not registered please email support@carevista.net
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The first time you login to the site you will be asked to change your password. This is for security reasons and you change your password again at any time, by clicking on the 'Change password' link.
Choose a new password of at least 6 characters
or more and repeat in new password
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You will then come to this screen Fig 3
This confirms your password has been changed and updated successfully
Now ‘click me to continue’
Remember in future when you log on the system you will use your login
followed by the new password that you have just chosen and that will take you
immediately to Fig 4
The following screen is a greeting stating that you are now logged on to the system.
Now, click on 'Home Update' under the blue banner, to update your home details
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Choose the county your home is in from drop down bar, if you have homes in
other counties and you are updating a group select Proprietor you will have to
click on each home, otherwise if you only have one home it will default straight
to your home.
Remember select another county if you have other homes in different counties
to update, that are not registered to the same
proprietor. Highlight the home you want to amend the details of, tick the boxes
and fill in the details as much as possible. When completed click on ‘update
home details’ box in bottom right hand corner.
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Please update as much information as you can as this is what will be posted to
the web site.
Remember that clients accepted are
what the home is registered to accept according to ‘CSCI’
The Commission for Social Care Inspection
Also if you are a Care Home with
Nursing, that accepts Residential please tick the box indicated
If you have specialised
care you can put these details in your description or further details.
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To add / remove or confirm no change vacancies click on the heading ‘Vacancy
Updates’ select the home
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Select the vacancy type: Do you want ‘Social Care’ and the ‘Public’ to see it
or just one or the other?
Most vacancies will fall into ‘Public and Professional’ therefore
you will not need to select the as it defaults to Public and Professional
View ‘Public and Professional’,
select the room type, the
vacancy type (accordingly Nursing
or Residential or either),
The fee band for Social Care
Fee Band explanation for
Professional Rates
Social Care = you accept clients
at your local Social Care Rates
Client Dependent = Might accept
Social Care with top up or if Nursing depends on Care package
Self Funded = probably the cost is
outside of the local Social Care price, private funded
Public fee range: The minimum
amount accepted to the maximum accepted on a vacancy
Stay type: All means willing to
accept Respite whilst the vacancy is available, or choose Long Term if you wont
accept respite.
The number of beds: available
Date available: Will default to
today, select from calendar if different
The date is automatically defaulted to today, so if the bed is not available
till next month click on the calendar and select the date you require.
Remember to tick the client group accepted for this vacancy.
Remember you can show bed vacancies to both the Social Services and or Private
only by selecting the ‘Vacancy audience type’
Then click on ‘save/update vacancy’
For each new vacancy click on ‘Add new vacancy’ and select the criteria
required.
Each time ‘save update vacancy’
If there is no change to a current vacancy/no vacancy situation click ‘No
changes’
To remove any vacancies, firstly highlight the vacancy then click on ‘delete
vacancy’, (this button will not work and show light grey if you have no
vacancies)
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Be aware the system always defaults to 1 when there are no vacancies
As long as there is nothing in the vacancy box, there are no actual vacancies
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Just to put your mind at rest go to you home details page to view what you are
advertising
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VACANCY SEARCHES
(You cannot amend or change details of any home apart from your own)
Don’t forget to log off using the blue header bar