The phrase "a shift pattern" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific schedule or arrangement of work shifts, often in a job context.
Example: "The company has implemented a new shift pattern to improve employee work-life balance."
Alternatives: "work schedule" or "shift schedule".
I work a shift pattern of two days on, three days off.
The crew therefore work in a shift pattern involving four hour and six hour blocks that have us napping regularly and working around the clock.
"A&E can be a really isolating speciality – I'm working a shift pattern at the moment which means I won't see my flatmates for three days – and when something like this happens it makes it worse.
"A&E can be a really isolating speciality—I'm working a shift pattern at the moment which means I won't see my flatmates for three days and when something like this happens it makes it worse.
To capture data, trained observers worked a shift pattern to ensure at least one was present in the hospital continuously (spanning all 24 hours) until the estimated number of observations required by our sample size calculations were achieved.
The trainees have in consequence had a reduction in their working hours but also a change to a shift pattern of working.
The shifting-scaling pattern is a combination of a shifting pattern and a scaling pattern.
What emerges is a shifting pattern of borders between groups of people with different goals.
She is sitting on a green sofa in her front room, looking at a shifting pattern of sunlight on the opposite wall.
Through their mingled musings, exemplary tales and character sketches, the Essays present not a clear set of values (although they do attach great weight to mercy and friendship) but a shifting pattern of dispositional preferences extended through space (more than a thousand pages) and time (more than two decades).
In tasks as simple as deciding whether a shifting pattern of dots is moving to the left or to the right, brain activity in the parietal cortex rises as evidence is gathered, eventually reaching a tipping point (though it's not yet known which brain regions drive the final choice).
