Promoting PeopleBuilding Business
Creating CommunitySLIVERS-OF-TIME PROVIDES SOLUTIONS TO FIND,
BOOK AND REWARD THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO BE IN THE RIGHT
PLACE AT THE RIGHT TIME.
AS A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE, SLIVERS OF TIME ALSO HELPS BUILD
CARING COMMUNITIES, INCREASE VOLUNTEERING AND
REDUCE UNEMPLOYMENT.
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Who we are
Passionate about people and technology
Slivers-of-Time provides solutions to find, book and reward the right people to be in the right
place at the right time. As a social enterprise, Slivers-of-Time also helps build caring
communities, increase volunteering and reduce unemployment.
Slivers-of-Time provide technology and recruitment solutions that can transform your services,
operations and communities. We can help you deliver more, save money and make a difference. We
work with government departments, national employers, recruitment agencies and charities to support
them with:
• Solutions to recruit, verify, match, book, vett, rate and reward people.
• Creating online marketplaces that support communities
• Managing flexible talent pools of workers and volunteers
Our work has been promoted by the Local Government Association, Financial Times, Association for
Public Sector Excellence, Social Care Institute for Excellence and the New Economics Foundation.
Our customers include Hertfordshire County Council, Resourcing Group, Driver Hire, RVS, Age UK,
Leeds City Council and the London Borough of Islington.
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Slivers-of-Time has a range of solutions that can help you recruit, promote people, build businessand create community. We provide expert advice on how technology can help you achieve yourgoals. Each of our solutions can be used in isolation or combined to deliver a comprehensive
complete solution for your needs.
Our solutions are cloud-based and do not require users to install anything nor store any data on theircomputers. All you require is an internet-equipped device. Through using a responsive ‘mobile first’design approach our technology is built to be accessible when using smartphones and tablets.
Our technology has helped our customers to:• Reduce the costs and time of hiring staff• Respond to flexible customer needs for services• Launch innovative community projects• Give individuals flexible work to build a living wage
Solutions
Our community e-marketplaces can help you recruit, sell and connect with your stakeholders. We create bespoke websites that enable you to build or strengthen a community.
Community e-Marketplace
Our self-service workforcesystems can help you manage a flexible talent pool of workers and volunteers. It’s a better way of managingtimesheets, bookings andavailability. Book people’stime instantly and precisely.
Flexible Workforce system
Find, verify, match, bookand reward people. For paidwork and volunteering, ourtechnology can help yourecruit faster, deliver morewith your people and savemoney.
End to End Recruitment Software
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Community e-Marketplace
Slivers-of-Time are experts in building e-markets and online community platforms that can help
organisations connect with their customers, partners and staff.
Our e-markets can help you create new ways to advertise or sell online, collaborate with partners and
streamline business processes.
Examples of e-marketplace applications we have created include recruitment portals, event
management solutions, volunteering networks and a respite bed booking system.
• Local care community networks
• User profiles
• Job board
• Applicant tracking
• Events
• Appointments
• Surveys
• Groups
• Content Management System
• Reporting
FEATURES
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Flexible Workforce Systems
Our flexible workforce systems enable instant and precise booking of people’s time for paid
work or volunteering.It can support you to create regular or flexible scheduling of people’s
time in different jobs. Approved people can update their hour-by-hour availability to work or
volunteer. This allows them to work or volunteer flexibly around their other life commitments.
The worker or volunteer is alerted and can confirm the booking instantly by text or email. When you
need a task done our booking platform shows who is available for the precise location, time and
duration you need them. Then lets you book them instantly.
• Self-service online bookings
• Administration and reporting tools
• Availability matching
• Vettings for roles and users
• Timesheet approvals
• Online user verifications
• Multiple agency relationships
• SMS and email notifications
FEATURES
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End-to-End Recruitment Software
We provide a complete online solution for the challenges that you face in sourcing and
scheduling the right people quickly and efficiently to deliver your services.
Our technology can provide a process to more cost effectively manage a flexible talent pool of paid
workers or volunteers
Slivers of Time online systems will help you:
Recruit: Get a job board to list opportunities where people can register
Verify: Automatic online verification of their identity and work eligibility
Match: Search people and skills against opportunities
Book: Regular, flexible and last minute scheduling of one or many people
Rate: Track your favourites so you can book them again
Reward: Tax withholding, HMRC submission and auto-payment to workers
Report: Detailed analytics of the whole process
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Sectors
Corporate Local Authorities
Health and Social care Voluntary
Housing Associations Agencies
We can help any organisation that wants to transform the way they recruit or support community.
Our solutions can transform any sector where day-to-day flexibility or putting the community first is important. They can slash costs, bring new resources into play and dramatically improve reporting and compliance.
Creating a flexible workforce marketplace ready to respond to demanding business needs
Giving a boost to local residents with our community solutions while saving money
Supporting local health priorities and enabling person-to-person marketplaces
Enabling flexible volunteering and online services for charities that improves people’s lives
Supporting local people with finding work and volunteering opportunities
Enabling online self-service and transforming the way you recruit
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Greenwich P2P marketplace is a way for people to take control of organising their home
support services online. It was developed by the Royal Borough of Greenwich and the
Greenwich Carers Centre using the Slivers-of-Time flexible workforce platform.
This service is available to all vulnerable adults living within the London Borough of
Greenwich and their families or carers. It enables carers and vulnerable adults to have the flexibility to
choose the right care worker to attend to their personal care needs, for practical support or book a
carer break.
Registered services users can:
• Find care workers who are qualified, available and willing to provide different forms of support
• Book a care worker within a couple of clicks for when and where they need instantly and at
short-notice
• Make very flexible requests including short-term bookings of just a few hours
• Let the marketplace take care of any payments and administration
• Allow advocate users to make bookings
Case study
Greenwich P2P Marketplace
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BUSINESS BENEFITS
Greenwich Carers Centre has found that using Slivers-of-Time has helped them to:
• Spendlesstimespentorganisingstaffingarrangements:Administrators and service users can now see live availability of all their workers. This means they do not have to constantly call or email workers to get their needs met. Approved service users an also make their own arrangements online.
• Makeiteasiertohirecareworkerspreciselybythehour:Slivers-of-Time enables workers to be booked for exactly the time required. Savings were made from the system helping with deploying and paying staff efficiently.
• Enableflexibleworkingforstaff:Workers can now choose their own availability and conditions for work that fit around their ever changing life commitments. Some short-term opportunities that arise would not be possible without the system.
• Respondtoflexiblecustomerrequests:Greenwich Carers Centre can now offer a service to support their customers when and where they need instantly and at short-notice. Customers can make the booking themselves online. Requests can be very precise e.g. Down to 15 minute intervals, not just for filling pre-determined shift patterns. The talent pool is able to meet very specific customer demands and so new opportunities for flexible support can be met.
FOR MORE INFORMATION PLEASE CONTACT:
SLIVERS OF TIME
46-48 EAST SMITHFIELD,
LONDON
E1W 1AW
+44 (0)20 7954 9295
www.sliversoftime.com
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