For independent care homes

Know who's expired, who's over budget, and who's actually on shift — before your inspector does.

CareShift is rota, timesheets, payroll export and training-expiry tracking, built specifically for care homes — not a generic scheduling tool with a care skin over it.

No trial signup — every home starts with a real conversation, then a parallel-run pilot before you rely on it.

CareShift dashboard showing planned cost, approved hours and a labour hours trend chart
Watch it work

CareShift, start to finish, in about 40 seconds.

Dashboard, rota, training expiry, payroll export — no slideshow, just the real thing.

Sound familiar

Nobody wakes up wanting rota software.

You buy it when something already hurts.

An inspection asked for training records we couldn't produce fast enough.
DBS & certificate expiry
Agency spend keeps climbing and nobody can tell me by how much, or where.
Agency vs. permanent cost
The whole rota lives in one manager's head — and she's on leave this week.
Rota continuity
The software itself

See it in action

Three real screens. This is what your managers actually open.

Rota

Build a week in minutes, not a Sunday night.

Apply a template, auto-fill open shifts against real availability, or copy last week and adjust. Cost and hours update live as you assign — and publishing is refused outright if it would breach minimum rest, not just flagged after the fact.

CareShift rota screen showing a week of shifts assigned across six staff with live cost totals
Training & DBS

See what's expired before an inspector asks.

DBS checks, moving & handling, safeguarding, medication competency — one list, colour-coded, with a running count of what's expiring in the next 30 days. No more finding out during a CQC visit.

CareShift training and certification tracking screen showing expired and expiring records
Payroll export

Approved hours in, a clean CSV out.

Payroll only ever sees timesheets that have actually been approved. Create a pay run, export a summary or detailed CSV for whatever system you already use, and mark it exported — the same hours can never be paid twice.

CareShift payroll screen showing an itemised pay run with hours, rates and gross pay per employee
Why not a generic tool

Rota software is a crowded market. This isn't rota software.

The big names weren't built for what a care home specifically has to prove.

Generic scheduling toolsCareShift
Built for any industry — retail, hospitality, care, all the same featuresBuilt for care: DBS/training expiry, agency spend, CQC-ready records
Priced per employee — grows more expensive as your team growsPriced flat per site — growing your team doesn't cost more
Compliance is something you check yourselfMinimum rest and working-time rules are enforced automatically, not just recorded
A support ticket, response in 24 hoursA small team who already knows your setup
Pricing

Per site, not per person.

Simple to quote, and it doesn't penalise you for growing.

Onboarding
£450–950
One-off. Install, data import, configuration, two training sessions.
Additional site
£65–99/mo
Discounted for groups of two or more homes.
Data migration
£300+
Quoted per job, from your existing spreadsheet or system.
Founding homes The first three sites get 50% off for six months, in exchange for a short case study and a reference call once you're live. After that, standard pricing above.
New homes run in parallel for the first four weeks — alongside your existing process, at no extra cost, so you can check every payroll figure by hand before anyone is actually paid from it.
Questions

Before you ask

Where does our data live?
Hosted in the UK, on infrastructure you choose — including your own servers, if you'd rather. A Data Processing Agreement is available on request.
What happens if we leave?
You export everything, any time, in a format your next system can read. Nothing is held hostage.
How long does setup actually take?
Most homes are live within two weeks: we import your staff and roles, build your first rota together, then run parallel with your current process before you switch over fully.
Do you run payroll for us?
No — CareShift produces the numbers your payroll provider needs, as a clean export. You keep whoever already runs your payroll.

See your own rota inside it.

Fifteen minutes, no obligation — bring a real week and we'll build it live.

Book a 15-minute demo