Benefits

What changes, for everyone in the building.

CareBeacon changes the working day for everyone in the building: you, your managers and your carers, all the way to inspection day. Here is what each of them gains, and the job it replaces. For the story of a single day, see how it works.

For you, the owner

Run every home from anywhere.

You stop depending on being in the building, or on being told. The state of every home is on your screen, with the evidence attached.

The owner dashboard: urgent issues first, then the sign-off queue

The whole home at a glance

Open the dashboard and the day is already sorted for you: critical issues at the top, checks waiting for sign-off underneath, every room wearing a live green, amber or red rating. You know the state of the building before your first coffee.

No more ringing the home to ask if everything is alright

Sign off with your own eyes

Every completed check arrives with the photo and the answers on the front of the card. You approve it in one tap, from the office, from home, from holiday. Trust stops being the system; evidence is.

No more taking someone’s word for it

The paper trail writes itself

Who checked what, where, when, and what they found: stamped automatically on every single action. Six months later the answer is one search away, not one filing cabinet away.

No more the 11pm scramble the night before an inspection

Every home, one screen

Two homes or ten, they all run the same checks on the same system, ranked by risk with the worst first. You compare buildings on evidence, not on which manager tells the best story.

No more a different system, or no system, in every building

For your manager

The day stops needing a rota and a ruler.

Planning, chasing and filing are the hours that eat a manager’s week. All three now happen on their own.

The compliance planner: every recurring check scheduled once

The day plans itself

Fridge temperatures, room checks, fire doors, Legionella flushes: scheduled once, then generated automatically and put on the right person’s phone at the right time, every day, forever.

No more typing and printing the week’s checklists

Chasing runs on its own

A missed check chases the carer, then the supervisor, then the manager, on its own and on time. The things that slip through handovers stop slipping.

No more walking the corridors asking “did anyone do the fridge?”

Repairs with a lifecycle

A dripping tap is raised with a photo and a priority, assigned to maintenance, completed with evidence and closed only when a manager approves it. Every open job is on one list with an owner and an age.

No more the maintenance book nobody opens

A watch on the meds fridge

Temperature and humidity sensors cover the meds room, fridges, freezers and resident rooms around the clock, across the home. A reading out of range becomes an assigned task pushed to the staff you name, and every reading lands in the audit trail. Optional add-on, £150 per home per month.

No more discovering a warm fridge on Monday morning

For your carers

Less paperwork, more care.

The app takes the writing-up out of the job and gives credit for the work that used to be invisible.

The staff app mid-check: one clear question at a time

Two minutes in the doorway

Scan the QR on the door and the right checklist opens. Answer the questions, take the photo, done. The record is complete before they have left the room.

No more writing up notes at the end of a shift

The right questions, every room

The meds room asks about fridge temperatures. Bedrooms ask about call bells and bed rails. Bathrooms ask about hot water. Nobody has to remember what matters where; the checklist already knows.

No more one generic tick sheet for every kind of room

Credit for invisible work

Every round is stamped with who, where and when. The carer who quietly does everything right finally has the record that shows it, and so do you.

No more good work nobody ever sees

Hazards raised in seconds

Wet floor, broken hoist, blocked fire exit: photo, priority, send. It lands with the right person as a tracked job, not as a remark that evaporates at handover.

No more mentioning it at handover and hoping

For inspection day

Nothing to prepare, because it is already there.

The evidence an inspector asks for is the same evidence the system collects every day. Inspection week becomes a normal week.

The rooms grid with a live CQC-style rating on every room

Evidence, not memory

Every check is photo-backed and timestamped the moment it happens, and every room carries Good, Requires improvement or Inadequate in the same language the CQC uses. You know where you stand before they do.

No more reconstructing three months of checks from binders

The audit pack is a button

Pick a date range and export the lot: every check, photo, sign-off, incident and repair, as one pack ready to hand over. What used to take a weekend takes a click.

No more gathering folders from three different offices

7 days

from first message to your home live on the system

£199

per home per month, with unlimited users included

0 lock-in

monthly rolling, cancel whenever, no minimum contract

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See it with your home in mind.

Book a 30-minute screen-share and we'll walk you through the panel and the staff app set up around your own rooms, your own checks, your own team.

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