Elemental to give parents paid time off for home-schooling

In efforts to assist staff, the company is giving all parents the option to take paid time off each day to home-school.

As part of new Executive restrictions to curb the spread of Coronavirus, it was announced on January 5 that schools in Northern Ireland would undertake an extended period of remote learning and working from home must be employed where possible.

Parents therefore have returned to balancing work commitments and home-schooling duties.

Elemental Software was co-founded by former Community Development workers, Leeann Monk Ozgul and Jennifer Neff, to scale and measure the uptake and impact of the social prescribing movement.

Social prescribing is a method of referring people towards non-medical sources of support within the community to help them improve their overall wellbeing.

This can include activities like fitness classes, gardening clubs, befriending services and healthy cooking programmes.

Elemental’s digital platform enables GPs to make an express referral for a patient to a Social Prescribing Link Worker within three clicks.

Jennifer Neff, CEO and Co-founder, said: “Leeann and I are both mothers, and know first-hand the strain that working from home and parenting can put on you.

“We also know the importance of ensuring our children have a routine and continue learning, something that’s not always easy when both parents are still working and schools are closed.

“Our team is the backbone of Elemental, who give us their all every day, so we want to protect them and their mental health during these extremely tough times and support them in any way we can.”

Elemental Software is made up of a team of passionate community impact professionals, with genuine care for community health and well-being, and reducing health inequalities.

The company’s purpose is to empower and enable families, and their carers, to better connect into community-based programmes, services and interventions that make a positive impact on their lives.

Leeann Monk-Ozgul, COO and Co-founder of Elemental Software, said: “The ‘Covid Effect’ on people and on families is real, and we are proud to be playing our part by working with organisations in health, housing, education, VCSE, employability, and prison care to ensure people get the support they need.

“We also feel that, as employers, it is important that we practice what we preach and ensure that we’re supporting our staff during such tough times.”

Through its innovative digital platform, Elemental provides teams with the technical connectivity they need for multi-sector partnership working, leadership, and the measurement of mobilisation of support where needed.

By better connecting people into their communities, the Elemental platform demonstrates the impact that multi-sector partnership working and community and voluntary services have on wellness, community cohesion and demand on health and social care services.

Elemental is the platform of choice for over 200 digital social prescribing hubs across the UK and Ireland.

During the Covid-19 pandemic, Elemental have enhanced the capabilities of their digital social prescribing platform to provide teams with the technical connectivity they need for partnership working, leadership and the measurement of mobilisation of support where needed during Covid-19.

For more information, visit www.elementalsoftware.co