For UK care providers

Hire vetted care workers, direct from your office.

Browse a national pool of PAYE-compliant care workers. Invite the ones you want. Pay through one platform. No phone calls, no hidden agency margin, no IR35 risk.

No IR35 risk
No agency margin
One invoice
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Why providers switch

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Invitations accepted within 24 hours

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PAYE - IR35-safe by design

The shift

From phone calls to one-tap invites

The old way

Five hours, five agencies, one disappointment

  • Cold-call three agencies for the same shift
  • No idea who you'll get until they arrive
  • Hidden margins, opaque pricing
  • IR35 exposure if HMRC investigate
  • Patchy compliance paperwork
  • No reviews, no trust signals, no recourse

The Salstead way

Filter, invite, confirm — under 5 minutes

  • Browse a national pool of vetted workers in your area
  • See the exact person before you book — photo, bio, specialisms
  • Transparent rate per shift, no surprise margin
  • Salstead is the PAYE employer — zero IR35 exposure
  • DBS / RTW / training auto-verified per shift
  • Two-way reviews and live Trust grade on every worker

What you can do

A full toolkit for the way you actually staff

Search the marketplace

Filter by role, postcode area, max rate, specialism, language, rating and instant-book. List or Areas view.

One-tap invite

Invite a specific worker to a specific shift with an optional personal note. They have 24 hours to respond.

Build a private bank

Save trusted workers to your bank. They get priority broadcast and a regular shift pattern.

Chat per shift

Pre-booking and during-shift messaging, audit-logged for CQC. No personal numbers exchanged.

Compliance evidence

DBS, Right to Work, training certificates, references — checked before they appear on your search.

One invoice, weekly

Salstead PAYEs the workers. You receive a single weekly invoice, fully VAT-itemised.

In the product

See exactly who you're hiring — before you click invite

app.salstead.com/workers/grace-n

GN

Grace N.

Trust A+

Registered Nurse · 6y exp · NG18

Reliability

96%

Shifts

187

Accept

92%

Reply

14m

Rate

£28.00/hr

Registered nurse with 6 years across dementia and palliative care. Prefers steady weekday day shifts, happy to cover weekends with notice. Comfortable with PEG feeding and end-of-life care.

DementiaPalliativeMed AdminPEG Feeding

Verified

DBS RTW Manual H. Safeguard

How it works

From sign-up to first shift in one afternoon

  1. 🏥STEP 1

    Sign up

    5-minute care-home onboarding. No card needed.

  2. 🔎STEP 2

    Search

    Filter the marketplace by role, area, rate, skills.

  3. ✉️STEP 3

    Invite

    Tap Invite to shift. Optional personal note.

  4. 🤝STEP 4

    Confirm

    Worker accepts or counter-offers. You approve.

  5. 💷STEP 5

    Pay & review

    One weekly invoice. Salstead PAYEs the worker.

The numbers

What you save on every single shift

Comparable RGN agency rate in the East Midlands sits around £30-34/hr. Salstead delivers the same care, fully PAYE-employed, at the rate the worker chose plus a transparent platform margin.

Multiply your weekly agency spend by the 25-35% reduction. That's the headline. There's also no compliance admin, no IR35 risk, no agency middle-of-the-night call-outs.

Per RGN shift, East Midlands

Worker gets paid£24.50/hr
Salstead PAYE margin£3.50/hr
You pay Salstead£28.00/hr
Typical agency£32.00/hr

£4.00/hr saved on every shift. For a 12-hour day shift that's £48 saved. Across a typical 250-shift week, £12,000+ per week.

From the field

What care home owners tell us

We cut our agency spend by 31% in the first quarter. The workers know us, we know them, and CQC evidence is automatic.

SP

Sarah P.

Director, Meadowview Care

Two ways to use Salstead

Just staffing — or the whole platform

Tier 1

Staffing only

If you already run an operations stack, just plug in staffing.

From £0 setup

  • Marketplace + private bank
  • Direct invitations + counter-offer
  • Compliance passport per worker
  • Two-way reviews + Trust grade
  • Weekly PAYE invoice
  • Per-shift chat thread
Get started

Tier 2

Staffing + Operations

Everything above, plus the modules your other systems do — under one login.

Per bed pricing

  • Everything in Tier 1
  • Roster + roster optimiser
  • CQC evidence packs on demand
  • eMAR + care plans + incident reports
  • Finance + invoicing + payments
  • Family portal + photo consent
See full pricing

Your next shift, filled by lunchtime.

Sign your care home up in 5 minutes. Browse workers in 30 seconds. Invite in one tap. Pay weekly through one platform.