For care providers
Staffing support built to help care homes move faster.
Caring24 is designed to attract care-home, supported-living, shelter, and nursing clients first. The platform helps teams request cover quickly, stay in control of pay rates, and manage completed work through a transparent post-shift invoicing process.
Workflow
Request shift → approve timesheet → receive invoice
Services
Core services for staffing buyers
Submit shifts quickly
Care teams can raise staffing requests without long agency call chains or fragmented booking admin.
Reach qualified workers
Carers, support workers, healthcare assistants, and nurses can review and accept suitable opportunities.
Operational confidence
Use a workflow that feels modern, reliable, and aligned with the future Caring24 platform experience.
Approve timesheets cleanly
Completed work can be reviewed and approved in a simple digital journey rather than paper-heavy follow-up.
Inside the platform
The Caring24 tools your home managers will use every day.
Post a shift
Set role, rate, location and times in seconds.
Home managers post shifts directly — choosing the role, pay rate and times that fit their service. No long agency phone chains, no off-system bookings.
Choose your worker
Approve from vetted profiles with full visibility.
Review applicants' experience, ratings and shift history before approving. Build a list of trusted favourites so the same people can return to the same residents.
See it all in one place
One weekly view across every role, unit and home.
Day shifts, night shifts, applications, unfilled slots — all in one calendar your managers and central team can share.
Use cases
Practical cover for the situations care teams face every week.
Last-minute sickness cover across day and night shifts.
Planned rota gaps for annual leave, vacancies, and training days.
Extra staffing for supported living services, shelters, and step-up demand periods.
Nursing cover for services that need clinically qualified staff.
Booking & payment workflow
The process, clearly reflected
Care home submits a shift or job request.
Qualified carers, support workers, or nurses can view and accept the shift.
The worker completes the shift.
The care home approves the timesheet.
An invoice is generated.
The care home pays the invoice after approval.
Predictive Staffing
AI-poweredForecast staffing gaps 4 weeks ahead
Our engine reads 12 months of your rota patterns, leave requests, and seasonal trends — and flags risk dates before they appear.
- 4-week rolling forecast
- Sick-rate & seasonality modelling
- Auto-trigger pre-booked cover
18 July — 2 nurse gap predicted (75% confidence)
Smart Match — Friday 19:00–07:00
Re-booked here 8×
Night-shift preferred
Available all weekend
Smart Match
AI-poweredThe right worker, automatically ranked
When you post a shift, we score every available worker on 14 factors and invite only the top matches — no mass broadcasts, no wasted notifications.
- Top 3 invites sent in seconds
- Re-bookings prioritised
- Distance, skill, rating weighted
Compliance Autopilot
AI-poweredAlways CQC inspection-ready
Track every worker's DBS, NMC pin, and mandatory training. Get alerts 60 days before expiry. Unqualified workers can't reach your door.
- DBS + NMC live sync
- Training-matrix dashboard
- 60/30/7 day expiry alerts
Compliance status
| Worker | DBS | NMC | Training |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sarah M. | ● Valid | ● Valid | ● Expires soon |
| Arjun P. | ● Valid | ● Valid | ● Valid |
| Naomi T. | ● Valid | ● Expires soon | ● Valid |
| David L. | ● Expired | ● Valid | ● Valid |
The old way vs Caring24
Stop firefighting. Start forecasting.
Without Caring24
- Discover the gap at 6am when someone calls in sick
- Spend 2 hours calling agencies
- Manually check DBS and training records
- Paper timesheets, chasing signatures
- No visibility of who's actually on shift
- Unpredictable agency bills
With Caring24
- Notified of predicted gap 4 weeks in advance
- Top 3 matched workers notified in seconds
- Compliance verified automatically, always live
- Digital timesheets approved in one tap
- Live dashboard showing every shift, every person
- Fixed platform pricing, total cost transparency
Commercial clarity
Set your own rates. Approve every shift. Pay only after the work is done.
Caring24 keeps care providers in control of the commercial relationship. Care homes set the pay rate for each request, accept the worker themselves, and approve the digital timesheet before any invoice is issued. No hidden uplifts, no surprise charges, no booking team you've never met making decisions for you.
A staffing partner built around your service
Whether you run a single care home, a multi-site nursing group, a supported living service, a complex care team, a homeless hostel, or a hospital bank, Caring24 adapts to how you already work — set your own rates, keep approval in your hands, and only pay once timesheets are signed off.