For many Multi-Academy Trusts (MATs), stress, high workload and poor remuneration continues to significantly impact staff retention. But Trust leaders can improve communication, staff development and make more of their talent.
Civica People Hub, an innovative and proven people management system for Multi-Academy Trusts, provides the tools you need to build effective teams in a climate that pushes you to deliver more with less. Our work with leading Trusts guides the development of our suite of smart cloud software for MATs, and supports:
- A centralised and intuitive source of truth
- Maximised staff effectiveness
- Staff growth and retention for better continuity of teams
- Improved employee engagement
- Tangible and actionable insights
- Legislative compliance
- Scalable growth.
Building effective teams across your Multi-Academy Trust
Civica People Hub delivers the power to transform people management and engage employees. It covers the entire employee life-cycle, including recruitment and onboarding, contractual arrangements, training and development, managing absence and performance. And offers optional integrated payroll software and managed payroll services.
Civica’s flexible and scalable cloud HR system is tailored to meet the operational, legislative and compliance requirements of MATs. It’s post-based and supports unlimited employees and schools, employees with multiple posts, term-time only and non-standard working patterns.
Improve efficiency by 90% with connected data and automation
Better insight with advanced reporting and analytics
Improve employee experience with self-service apps
Why choose Civica as your MAT HR software partner?
Complete lifecycle management – simplifies and connects every aspect the employee journey
Sector expertise – more than 14,000 education providers use Civica Education products
Build more effective teams – flexible and intuitive analytics to drive deeper insight, greater productivity and improved responsiveness.
Do more with less – automation, connected data and employee engagement apps deliver demonstrable efficiency savings.
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Sue Elliott,
Director of HR,
Trust in Learning Academies
Total savings in the first year were £145,000 across our schools. In addition, the schools’ business managers have more time to focus on strategic improvements to teaching and learning, which are vital to our transformation agenda.
Trust in Learning Academies supports growth and transformation with centralised HR and payroll
With centralised HR and payroll systems, a multi-academy trust optimises its people strategy and gives time and money back to its schools.
FAQs
- Will Civica People Hub integrate with school management information systems (MIS)?
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Civica People Hub makes HR transactions easier, more automatic, and more intelligent. It covers the entire employee life-cycle including recruitment and onboarding, absence, performance, training and CPD. For improved efficiency and data accuracy our HR software for education integrates with MIS systems. You can create new employee records, make record changes and process leavers in either Civica People Hub or your MIS and the changes will be reflected in the other system without duplicating data entry.
- Does Civica People Hub include any dashboards?
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Our education dashboard delivers targeted interactions specifically for MAT users, automating processes to enhance services and efficiency. Instant access to intelligent analytics drives deeper insight and greater productivity to improve decisions and outcomes.
- Teachers’ Pensions Scheme - review contributions and salary details
- Single Central Record – generate reports in both default and customised layouts
- Absence impact analytics - with live data
- Budgeting - with current salary costs and forecasting
- Resourcing detail - with a graphical analysis of posts and grades.
- How will Civica People Hub improve experience for my team?
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Connecting digitally with your employees and managers improves employee experience and productivity and increases the ability to monitor, measure and react in real-time. Employees can securely access and update information, make bookings and requests 24 hours a day, via a browser or our Mobile App (available for iOS and Android).
- How easy is it to run reports in Civica People Hub?
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Benefit from an extensive suite of HR and payroll-focussed reports and graphs and a custom report writer, along with specialist features just for education, including:
- Schools Workforce Census (SWF)
- Staff Individualised Record (SIR)
- Single Central Record (SCR)
- Governors’ KPIs.
- Does Civica People Hub include a payroll module?
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Civica People Hub includes options for processing payroll, pensions and benefits in-house using our HMRC-recognised Civica Payroll software or our payroll bureau, Civica Managed Payroll Education to manage this for you. We’ve added some specific features for schools and colleges to our payroll module, including:
- Education contracts – term-time only working & teachers’ pay spines
- Local Government & Teachers’ Pensions Schemes – with outputs to MDC and the iConnect service
- Monthly & annual pensions extracts – with simple output to Microsoft Excel
- Payroll scheduler – set-up your payroll processing ahead of time
- School payroll portal – for individual schools to securely share data with your payroll team (option)
- For those opting to use Civica Managed Payroll Education, we provide a web-based portal designed to put schools in control of their own employee payroll data and enable them to share it with Civica in a way that is simple, secure, and auditable, promoting efficiency and accuracy.
Learn more about our smart solutions for MATs
Financial resilience
We help to reduce the cost of operations and empower financial resilience across your ecosystem through efficient, integrated and centralised management of your Trust’s financial posture.
Effective teams
Maximise staff effectiveness and drive staff growth and retention for better continuity of teams with a centralised and intuitive source of the truth.
Safe environment
From statutory compliance, safer estate management and supporting pupil’s nutritional needs, we help you focus on what matters by reducing the burden of reporting and improving efficiencies.
