New residential living plans in Whitley

Whitley Bay may be getting a new retirement premises, as plans have been submitted for the Marine Gardens project.

This is a three-storey building with 65 living places, both one and two bed, along with sheltered gardens, guest suites and a variety of other communal spaces

There will be 33 parking spaces, and two accessible bays. The building will be situated only 200m from the coast.

The developer in charge of this development is McCarthy & Stone. This is a specialist developer and manager of retirement communities with more than 40 years’ experience. The company has provided in excess of 56,000 homes in the UK, across more than 1,200 developments.  

Established in 1963, McCarthy & Stone is a A planning statement included with the proposals said: “The proposed development will provide a range of economic benefits, including direct employment in its own right, supporting the local economy with an increased footfall and local expenditure, as well as revitalising the housing market through the release of under occupied family housing.”

Care homes are staffed 24/7 by care workers, receptionists, security guards and other members of staff. If it is also a nursing home, with specialist nurses on-site, they will also need to have a constant presence. This means that there is likely to be a large number of overlapping and/or irregular shifts.

This is already difficult enough for supervisors to manage successfully. It is vital that there is a clear picture of who is in the building at any given time, not only for the security and reputation of the care home, but also for visitors’ safety in situations such as fire alarms.

Our specialist time and attendance system records everyone’s entrance and exit from controlled doors, using either smartcards or more expensive but more secure biometric measurements.

When the time and attendance clocking terminals from Time and Attendance North East are linked into your company’s fire alarm system, any fire alarm activation will result in the printing of a fast, automated list of who is currently clocked into the building. This is more accurate than a paper sign-in sheet.

All the data from our system on when people went through controlled doors is exportable onto all major payroll programmes. We also have the Self Service Module, which can be accessed from a browser or from your mobile via the app (available on Android and iOS). This enables employees to sign in and out and request holiday.

If the clocking in/out is done from a mobile, the information is transferred to the central system, including GPS position data so that you can make sure your remote employees, such as community carers, are where they should be at that time.