Ensure that a Headteacher is defined in Focus>School>School Details. The Headteacher is the top level in Line Management and completed by default by the software using the school details so if there…
When it comes to the differences in the count, Personnel actually mainly considers staff Employment Date, which is different to the Contract Dates. For a teacher to show in the Personnel browse…
Firstly the user will need to be given permissions within System Manager to the Staff Performance (SP) groups. Secondly go to Tools>Staff>Staff Performance>Line Management structure Check the date and click Go Highlight…
This can happen if staff have been entered in Personnel and separately into Manage Classroom Staff resulting in two staff codes. Also (rarely) if they are in the student focus and that…
Once the user has been set-up in SIMS please log-in to the FPS Budget Companion and select the P7 Link option Select NEXT Some schools may see a screen with…
Check the member of staff's personnel record for absences. Either there is a missing end date or the end date is not correct eg the year has been mistyped. This can occur…
Once there has been a new superannuation rate agreed it needs to be entered into Sims .net Go to Tools>Staff>Superannuation Search for the required scheme Click on the New button on the…
Go to Tools>Staff>Pay Related>New Enter a code, description, Hours Worked and Weeks Worked as required. If the pay pattern will be the same for all staff on this service term it may be…
This KB gives 3 scenarios to help you to provide Cover for a teacher who has left the school, 1 If a staff member leaves and the timetable is taken over…
At various times pay awards are negotiated for different types of staff and the resulting agreed amounts published. These figures will then need to be entered into Sims .net for both the…
Due to the School Teachers’ Pay and Conditions changes effective from September 2013 which removes a mandatory pay structure for teachers, Local Authorities and SCOMIS are unable to provide automatic updates in the future.…
There might be a situation where current students are also employed by the School or the student has left and come back as Staff. To avoid a duplication, you should only use…
The reasons for absences in Cover are held in a separate table from the reasons for absence in Personnel, but there is no reason why the tables cannot be the same, if desired.…
Absences such as meetings are recorded in Cover only - The member of staff is not actually absent therefore they are not recorded in Personnel. When adding or editing a reason for…
A Training course can be added via Tools | Staff | Training. Click ‘new’ to add a new training course. Enter the details in Panel 1 & 2 Staff attending the course…
This function allows you to suspend a contract, either to replace the contract with another one for a period of time or simply lapse the contract. NOTE: FMS will not calculate commitment…
You may also get error 'Not a valid start date ##/##/####. This is caused by an incorrect allowance description. Go to Tools | Staff | Pay Related. Search for the service term…
1. In Sims .net go to Tools>Staff>Pay Related 2. Choose the relevant service term then go to section 4 Posts 3. Click on the blue 'new' option on the right and add…
This is due to a missing date in the 'Employment Start' field. 1. Go to Focus>Person>Staff and browse for the problem record. 2. Choose Employment Details tab - this requires a date in…
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If the allowance is a preset one then go to the person's contract, scroll down to the allowance field, click on new and add the appropriate allowance. If the allowance is not…
Because the contract does not have a start date or the start date is set in the future (deferred contract). As soon as a deferred contract becomes active this icon will change…
Find the old record and use the Employment Details tab Add new employment dates by clicking the 'new' option beside the panel, fill in the fields as appropriate Enter new contract details…
This problem is usually due to conflicting information in a contract. Check the closed contracts, they probably have an open scale record, enter the correct end date then try saving again. kb310…
Open all the allowances, posts and scales and look for a blank or red field, fill in the required information and then try to save again. Last reviewed: 03/01/2018 kb116
If you backdate a contract it will affect FMS. If you have reconciled against the old contract, we would suggest to not backdate unless you are happy to change FMS as well.…