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Rota - Compliance & Documents

Written by Tom

The Compliance & Documents page lets admins and managers set the compliance checks and documents your staff need to be compliant, apply them to different worker types and locations, and keep track of them from each worker's profile. You now have more document types and more control over who each requirement applies to.

This article explains how to set your standard requirements, add required documents, and manage them on a worker's profile.

Permissions

Access to Compliance & Documents is controlled by user permissions. The permissions needed to do set anything on the Compliance and Documents page are:

  • Manage Bank and Perm Staff – the compliance and document options below only take effect when this is also switched on.

  • View Compliance Documents – view compliance paperwork (right to work, DBS checks, certifications) for your bank and permanent staff.

  • View Worker Documents – view document uploads for your bank and permanent staff.

For the full list of permissions, see the Manage Permissions: What Each Toggle Does article.

Where to find it

Go to Settings → Compliance. This is where you set the standard checks and documents that apply across all of your locations.

Setting your compliance checks

At the top of the page you'll set the core compliance checks for your staff. Each check can be made mandatory, made optional, or limited to specific worker types

  • ID check – Set as mandatory for everyone. It is not optional; every worker is asked to complete an ID check in the platform.

  • Right to Work – Only required if the ID check is not a UK passport. Workers who verify with a UK passport won't be asked again; otherwise Right to Work is always requested.

  • Police checks (DBS) – Require these for all staff, or only for certain roles. For example, you might make it essential for clinical staff but only "nice to have" for your chef and activities team.

  • Professional registrations – Apply only to the roles that need them, such as your nurse and senior carer. Leave it free for everyone else where there's no professional body to add.

Adding required documents

Beside the compliance checks tab you can add your own 'Required Documents'. For each one you can set:

  1. The document type (e.g. CV, welcome pack, references).

  2. Whether it has an expiry date or no expiry.

  3. That it must be a file upload.

  4. Which worker types it applies to (e.g. Permanent and Bank).

  5. Which locations it applies to.

A few examples of how this works:

  • CV – No expiry, file upload, required for all workers (Perm and Bank) and all locations.

  • References – For all worker types (Permanent and Bank) and departments, with no expiry.

You can edit a document at any time - for example, removing the expiry date so it no longer expires - and the list updates straight away. You can also save new documents or delete ones you no longer need.

Note: Make sure you Save after setting your requirements. If you navigate away without saving, none of your selections will be applied.

Managing documents on a worker's profile

Once your requirements are saved, they appear on each staff member's profile.

Open a worker's profile and go to their Compliance section. You'll see which requirements are optional and which are mandatory for that worker, and you can add the relevant details here.

Go to the worker's Documents to see how many valid documents they have and how many are missing. From here you can:

  1. See exactly which documents are missing (e.g. a missing reference).

  2. Upload a document and add an issue date, then save it.

  3. Delete a document — which marks it as missing again — and upload a replacement.

If a document is expiring, its expiry date is shown. If a document has expired, uploading a new one automatically takes its place. Any other documents the worker has that aren't part of the required set are listed separately below.

Users have an overview page that brings everything together in one place. You'll be able to see:

  • All missing documents.

  • All expired documents.

  • All documents expiring soon.

You can filter by document type, location or worker, so you can keep track of your whole team's compliance at a glance.

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