Running a dental practice means coordinating dentists, hygienists, nurses, receptionists, and specialist clinicians, all with different working patterns, rota priorities, and patient bookings. ShiftGuard makes it simple to bring structure to your team’s schedule. You can plan rotas based on real staff availability and share updates instantly with the entire team, helping everyone know exactly where they need to be and when. With a live schedule visible to all staff, ShiftGuard keeps every part of your practice aligned, from reception to surgery rooms, ensuring patients receive consistent care without disruption. And whether you're running one practice or managing multiple locations, ShiftGuard scales effortlessly alongside your team and workload.
Whether it's holiday, sickness, maternity leave, or CPD days, managing staff absence is vital to maintaining patient care in a dental practice. With ShiftGuard, team members can request holiday through the app, and managers can log sickness or emergency absence in seconds. You can instantly see who’s already off before approving requests, helping you stay fully staffed and avoid disrupted appointments or dental chair downtime.
ShiftGuard gives dental practices full visibility of staff attendance as it happens. Team members clock in on-site, and their status is instantly updated so managers always know who is present, who is running late, and who hasn’t arrived. In a clinical setting, this isn’t just helpful, it's essential. If a dentist, nurse, or hygienist is unexpectedly absent, you can quickly notify patients, rearrange treatment rooms, or reschedule appointments before the disruption impacts care. Every shift is logged with precision, supporting accurate payroll, performance tracking, and compliance with healthcare staffing requirements. With ShiftGuard, staff attendance isn’t just monitored, it's managed with clarity, accountability, and ease.
A dental surgery cannot run without its pairing of dentist and nurse, plus reception. The rota has to keep those pairings intact through holidays and sickness.
Use job types for dentists, nurses, hygienists and reception, and set how many of each every session needs.
The leave calendar shows when a dentist and their nurse are both away, so you can move a session rather than cancel patients.
Record the absence on the rota and see who is free to cover the session.
Staff clock in at reception or by QR code, so you know the surgery opened on time.
It works across several practices too, with each location's rota and attendance kept separate.
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