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Staff Scheduling Software Designed for Dental Practices.

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.

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Track Leave and Absences
to Keep Patient Care Consistent.

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.

Track Dental Practice Attendance in Real Time for Full Team Visibility.

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.

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How to organise shifts and holidays for a clinic team

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.

  1. Plan by role

    Use job types for dentists, nurses, hygienists and reception, and set how many of each every session needs.

  2. Approve holiday with the whole team in view

    The leave calendar shows when a dentist and their nurse are both away, so you can move a session rather than cancel patients.

  3. Cover sickness fast

    Record the absence on the rota and see who is free to cover the session.

  4. Open and close reliably

    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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Dental practice rota software: questions

How dental practices use ShiftGuard for rotas, holiday and attendance. Try everything free for 14 days — no card required.

Yes. Give each person a job type and set how many of each role every session needs, so a surgery is never planned without its nurse.

Holiday requests sit on a shared calendar with everyone's leave, so you can see the clash before approving and move a session instead of cancelling patients.

Record the absence on the rota and you can see who else is free to cover that session.

Yes, at a kiosk on a reception tablet with their employee number, or by scanning the practice's QR code in the app.

Yes. Each practice can be its own location with its own rota and attendance, all in one account.

Yes, 14 days on every plan, with no card required.

Discover everything ShiftGuard has to offer

Everything you need to power your team

Rota Management Holiday Schedule Absence Tracking Attendance Monitoring Clock In System

Pricing Plans, designed to suit your team

Simple, transparent pricing. Pay monthly per user or save with annual billing. Scale anytime with pro-rata pricing.

Team size 10 members
1 member 100+ members
Your monthly plan
£0.00 per month
£0.00 per user / month

Every plan includes

  • Interactive Schedule Build & share rotas fast
  • Attendance Monitor Real-time visibility
  • Planned Leave Requests & approvals
  • Absence Log Log sickness & leave
  • Overtime Log Track extra hours
  • Employee Management Teams, roles & contracts
  • Reporting Hours, costs & trends
  • Virtual Kiosk Clock in & out on-site
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