How to Allocate a shift on Cloud Roster
This guide explains how to create and assign shifts within the Roster app, from accessing the draft rota to allocating shifts to staff members.
Managing shifts effectively is essential for maintaining accurate schedules, ensuring the right staff are assigned to the right tasks, and reducing errors in rota planning. Using this process helps improve efficiency, prevents missed or incorrect allocations, and ensures consistency across your scheduling workflow.
By following this guide, you will learn how to:
- Access the weekly rota and draft plan
- Create new shift assignments
- Configure shift details and allocation settings
- Assign shifts to service users, groups, or staff members
- Confirm and review updates to the rota
This ensures all shifts are accurately created, correctly assigned, and clearly reflected in the rota, supporting effective and reliable workforce planning.
Interactive Guide
Text based guide
Open the Roster app to access scheduling features
Select the calendar icon to open the weekly rota view
Open the Draft Plan to review and edit upcoming shifts
Click the plus icon on a row to create a new shift assignment
Open More Options to configure additional shift settings
Select a shift template or create a new shift as required
Enable Allocation to assign the shift to a person or group
Select the allocation type such as Service User, CSG, or Allocation Group
Choose the specific person or group to assign the shift to
Save changes to apply the shift and update the rota
Open additional options using the three-dot menu
Select Assign to Staff Member to allocate the shift
Select a staff member from the list
Confirm the assignment to finalise the shift allocation
Review the updated rota to confirm all changes