See your rota and ask for leave

Your rota shows the shifts your manager has published. Drafts are never shown, so a shift appears once your manager publishes the dates it falls in.

Open Rota from the sidebar under Daily work. Managers and administrators see the same page under the name Company Rota. Switch between Week and Month, and use Today to come back. If you work at more than one home, a Home filter appears. Times are UK local time.

What you can see

A line under the title says how much of the rota you can see:

• "Showing: every home's published rota"
• "Showing: the homes you work at, plus your own shifts anywhere"
• "Showing: your own shifts only"

Your organisation chooses which. Your own shifts are marked You.

Colleagues' leave appears only as Unavailable (leave or time off). You never see its type or reason, and nobody else sees yours. If nothing is published for the dates you are looking at, the page says "Nothing published for these dates".

Ask for leave

Select My leave, then Request leave.

1. Choose a Type: Annual leave, Sick, Unavailable or Other leave.
2. Choose the First day and the Last day (included).
3. Tick Only part of each day if you need only some hours, and set From and Until.
4. Add a Reason (optional, private). Only you and your managers can see it.
5. Select Send request.

A manager decides it. Each request shows Waiting for approval, Approved or Not approved. While it is still waiting you can select Cancel request. Once it is decided, it stays on record.