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Download our Staff App - SHSCT Connect from the App Store

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The UMatter Team

The SHSCT Connect App provides information to staff on:

 

  • COVID-19
  • What's On
  • Wellbeing - access the weekly Friday Focus message and the Umatter website directly from the app. This means you can access this information before/after work, at weekends or if you are off on leave.
  • Information about the Trust
  • Staff Benefits and vacancies

 

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Watch our short video (2 mins, 19 seconds) that explains more about the features of our staff app and how to access it: watch it from this link https://youtu.be/p6pkl9zljRo

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