Internal Float Pool and Gig Staffing Solutions

It’s not lost on you that hospital executive, HR, or healthcare staffing managers struggle to meet safety goals without losing too much money. Agency staff adds costs, breaks the consistency of care, and uses up budget fast.

It is time to look at scheduling from a completely new angle. Health systems need to reconsider the way talent is deployed. The ability to work from home is now the most desired perk. Providing clinicians the flexibility of being per diem will help retain and fill the necessary gaps in staffing.

With Relode, we can help you build an internal travel nurse pool and develop your own agency. From that, you will be able to save on outside agency costs, provide a lot of flexibility, and ensure you have an engaged, motivated staff.

The Challenge: Managing Staffing Costs and Clinician Burnout

Healthcare facilities are tasked with addressing two issues simultaneously, managing labor expenditures and catering to the requirements of the contemporary clinical workforce. Prior models have consistently placed facility administrators in situations with the alternative being to spend a substantial sum on staffing requirements.

Skyrocketing External Agency Spend

External agencies become too expensive to rely on when daily spikes in staffing occur or even to cover shift fluctuations. Relying on outside agencies causes disruption to operating budgets and puts a strain on the whole health system.

Demand for Clinician Flexibility

There is more autonomy desired in the profession of nursing and allied health. As health systems fail to create more opportunities for internal staffing (gig-based) or a flexible per diem options, nurses and allied health professionals seek work elsewhere, specifically, travel agencies, to help regain the work-life balance they desire.

Fragmented Patient Care

Constantly changing external travel agency staff in your facility can break down teams and the care given to patients. Having internal float pools allows nurses that you already know to work in the facility, therefore knowing the systems and processes, as well as the standard of care.

Our Approach: Building Your Internal Agency

Relode is your one-stop solution to creating and maintaining an internal float pool or flexible staffing solution to meet your health system's temporary workforce needs. We offer partnership to support a sustainable flexible workforce model to fit your organization's unique goals and objectives.

Our strategy begins by building a strong foundation and a seamless partnership between your recruitment and operational teams to achieve excellence in your internal staffing solution. We believe a strong foundation, strategic partnership and alignment is necessary to the success of your internal agency and helps ensure optimal performance.

Customized Pool Design

We will analyze your facility's past staffing information and predict the anticipated volume of needs to design an in-house travel nursing travel nurse float pool to meet your organization's staffing needs.

Technology-Enabled Gig Staffing

We help align talent strategies with the scheduling app, allowing your staff to book PRN shifts and your company to develop internal gig scheduling.

Strategic Recruitment & Retention

We actively source and recruit candidates directly into your float pools, emphasizing the benefits of flexibility combined with the stability of staying within your health system.

What We Deliver: The Complete Flexible Workforce Solution

There is a lot of preparation involved in starting an internal float pool. Relode is an expert at managing all the aspects of hiring clinical staff and will take that off your plate.

Program Architecture and Consulting

We examine how your agency spends their funds and what their utilization looks like. We then assist you with drafting internal float pool rules and policies for both clinical attractiveness and cost efficiency.

Targeted Talent Acquisition

We take care of the entire recruitment process to build your pool. Whether it's creating an internal travel nurse float pool, a multidisciplinary gig network, or anything else in between, we'll provide ready to work, deployable candidates for you.

Ongoing Program Optimization

Our partnership extends well beyond just setting up your talent pool. Our services include an initial setup, ongoing maintenance of your fill rates, monitoring clinician engagement and analyzing recruitment metrics. We continually update your recruitment strategy, allowing us to increase your ROI while decreasing the use of third party recruitment services.

App-Based Per Diem Enablement

We plan how you will implement mobile software that allows your staff to see and pick up open shifts at your organization, rather than outsourcing these shifts. This helps you build your internal pool. Clinicians can see available shifts and accept them easily right on their mobile device, as this is how they interact with most other apps in their lives.

Client Outcomes: What We Measure

Internal float pool and staffing solutions create clear financial and operational advantages. We monitor your health system’s most important KPIs, including:

Reduction in Premium Labor Spend:

Measuring the direct decrease in costly external agency usage by successfully filling gaps with your internal travel nurse float pool.

Shift Fill Rates:

Tracking the percentage of open per diem and short-term shifts covered by your internal gig staffing program.

Clinician Retention and Satisfaction:

Monitoring the retention of staff who utilize the internal pool for flexibility, reducing overall turnover costs.

Speed to Placement:

Evaluating how quickly open shifts are claimed and filled through your flexible internal network compared to traditional agency requests.

Take Control of Your Contingent Workforce

Rather than relying on outside contractors to fill critical positions, gig-like scheduling shifts to health system clinicians gives health systems more control over both clinician flexibility and the bottom line.

At Relode, we will help you develop, implement, and run internal agency pools for your organization.

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)

Q: How does an internal float pool save us money?
Q: Will gig staffing cannibalize our core, full-time staff?
Q: Why is ethical recruitment important for healthcare employers?