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.
Why providers switch
Built to work differently from agency
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Workers PAYE-employed - IR35-safe by design
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For a worker to accept or decline your invite
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Hidden agency margin - a transparent rate per shift
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Weekly invoice, however many workers you book
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 · illustrative view
See exactly who you're hiring, before you click invite
app.salstead.com/workers/grace-n
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.
Verified
How it works
From sign-up to first shift in one afternoon
- 🏥STEP 1
Sign up
5-minute care-home onboarding. No card needed.
- 🔎STEP 2
Search
Filter the marketplace by role, area, rate, skills.
- ✉️STEP 3
Invite
Tap Invite to shift. Optional personal note.
- 🤝STEP 4
Confirm
Worker accepts or counter-offers. You approve.
- 💷STEP 5
Pay & review
One weekly invoice. Salstead PAYEs the worker.
A worked example
Where the saving comes from, shift by 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, so you keep the agency middle-man's cut.
The figures below are an illustrative model using the example rates shown, not a measured result. Your actual saving depends on your agency rates and shift mix. There's also no compliance admin, no IR35 risk, no agency middle-of-the-night call-outs.
Per RGN shift, East Midlands (illustrative)
£4.00/hr saved at these example rates. For a 12-hour day shift that's £48; over 250 shifts that would be £12,000. A worked illustration, not a guaranteed figure.
Every worker is a real person you can trust
Every care worker on Salstead is PAYE-employed with a verified DBS, Right to Work and up-to-date training. No agency middle-man, no hidden margin, no guessing who is turning up for the shift.
Built around the job
What we designed Salstead to fix
Know who is turning up
See the exact person before you book, with photo, specialisms and a live Trust grade, instead of finding out when they arrive.
Book in seconds, not calls
Filter, invite and confirm a familiar carer from your own bank in a few taps, without cold-calling agencies for the same shift.
No IR35 guesswork
Salstead is the PAYE employer, so Right to Work, DBS and training are verified per shift and the tax position is clear.
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
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
- ✓Payroll for your own staff: PAYE, RTI-ready
- ✓Family portal + photo consent
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.