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School Staff Absence Management Software (SAM)™

Manage staff absence with ease

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Staff Absence Management (SAM) is a simple, online school absence management system that monitors, reports and manages all aspects of staff absence. Easily monitor attendance, sickness, paid and unpaid leave, managing supply cover and identify any trends or issues your senior leadership team need to know about quickly.

Get staff back to work quicker saving time and reducing costs

No more manual spreadsheets, trying to spot absence trends and work out who has hit a trigger. SAM automatically highlights them and reminds you of tasks so you can take action promptly, getting the staff member back to work quicker, saving time and costs.

SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover

Analyse trends to make better decisions and improve standards

SAM’s reporting suite enables you to quickly identify the reasons behind sickness absences and leaves of absence, helping to spot trends and absence patterns, by department, by line manager and by term. It provides information to tackle poor performance and manage duty of care, helping you to make informed decisions.

SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover

Centralise documentation and actions for a fair absence process

SAM keeps everything you need in one place, including notes, messages and letters. Save time by sending emails and personalised letters from within SAM at the touch of a button. There is one tracked process for everyone which, can be used as evidence helping to prevent claims of discrimination.

SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover

Improve standards by supporting your staff and keep teaching consistent for pupils

Using tiered access control you can empower department managers to deal more effectively with attendance by having better visibility of absence within their team. SAM supplies them with best-practice template documents to use, maintaining consistency, saving time and creating an audit trail.

SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover

We’ve now been using SAM for over a year and it has been a valuable asset to the school. We have managed to reduce our recorded absence for both teachers and support staff. This is of great benefit to the school and pupils. We find using SAM helpful and insightful and look forward to continuing to use SAM.

Andy Meehan, Business Manager, Lister Primary School

SAM has been a blessing in disguise, it has already revolutionised how we manage staff attendance, saving us valuable time. I would highly recommend SAM to any special school that needs a bespoke educational absence software tool to monitor triggers hit, manage absence cases and provide quick and easy reports for Trustees and Governors.

Jane Rawson, Business Manager, High Park School

SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
SAM removes manual analysis by analysing absence and alerting you quickly when action is needed
SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
Centralised attendance monitoring file for each employee, keeping all documents in one place and with an easy to view calendar.
SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
SAM imports automatically from SIMS maintaining and improving data accuracy and providing insightful reporting at the touch of a button.
SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
Bespoke to your school or Trust - SAM works on your term times, allowing for Inset Days and provides customisable document templates.
SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
A centralised file for each employee keeps documents and communications all in one place providing an audit trail. You can upload documents to SAM and send emails without moving screens.
SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
SAM provides detailed analysis broken down by department, line manager and employee so you can easily see any trends that are developing.
SAM. School staff absence management software, online school absence management system, managing supply cover
SAM allows you to compare absence across historical terms so you can prepare for any peaks and take the necessary action.

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