Plan cover for every part of the day and night while giving staff proper breaks and rest. Assign on-duty, backup and handover roles explicitly. Round-the-clock care should not depend on one person working a continuous shift.
Overnight care needs cover throughout the day and night. It does not mean one person should work without proper rest.
List the roles that must be covered at each time: cabin care, activities, health support, meals, arrivals, office work, night response, and emergency transport. Check local employment rules for breaks, sleeping time, on-call work, overtime, and rest.
Decide which night duties require a worker to be awake and which can use another approved arrangement. This depends on law, participants, site, care needs, and risk review. Do not copy another camp's night pattern without checking it.
Create relief capacity. If a worker accompanies someone to hospital, who replaces them? If two children need help in different cabins, who responds? If a worker is ill, who covers the next morning safely?
A senior camper or counsellor-in-training is not automatically an adult worker and should not replace required qualified supervision. Define their learning role and limits.
Schedule staff training, preparation, handover, and incident reporting as work. A roster that only counts activity hours hides the true cost.
Your task: Draw a full twenty-four-hour grid and mark every duty that could happen at the same time.
