AN innovative new app which informs care workers and their employers in residential and nursing homes about the availability of shifts has been launched by a former Impartial Reporter journalist. PickaShift informs staff about shifts that have become available at short notice and encourages them to pick up those shifts at an “increasingly favourable rate” until the shift is claimed…
PickaShift set to digitally disrupt the NI Social Care Sector A recent economic study by the Northern Ireland Social Care Council showed that the overall contribution to the economy of the adult social care sector was over £800m – supporting employment for over 100,000 people here. Set against the context of such a small population…
Former MLA and TV presenter behind new care home app A former MLA and TV presenter is part of the team behind an innovative new app which hopes to save care home providers hundreds of thousands of pounds per year. Fearghal McKinney, once health spokesperson for the SDLP and former UTV presenter, has teamed up…
New NI developed ‘PickaShift’ App set to revolutionise care home staffing An innovative new App, PickaShift, is expected to save care home providers in Northern Ireland hundreds of thousands of pounds per year while ensuring all staff shifts are covered. The app which connects care workers and their employers in residential and nursing homes, informs…
Ex-SDLP deputy leader McKinney reinvents self as digital pioneer A former TV broadcaster and politician is turning his hand to app development in a bid to tackle staffing problems in local care homes. Fearghal McKinney left politics last year after losing his South Belfast Assembly seat. He is one of the founders of PickaShift, whose…