Sectors

Councils

Councils have some of the most complex organisational structures in the country. StaffSavvy is here to help with that.

Whether you want to schedule library staff across a county or figure out the closest registrar to a venue, we’ve got you covered.

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  • Pay manipulation rules for varied shift types

  • Automated wage sheets for perfect payroll every time

  • Schedule restrictions for breaks and rest days

  • Staff communication tools with read acknowledgement

  • Shift Deployments for staff moving around the venue during a shift

  • Time & Distance add-on for managing remote staff and locations

  • Staff self-managed availability and shift-swapping

  • Time-off restrictions per week or month

  • Management-controlled reserved hours

  • Remote and retrospective clock-in

  • Easy approval of digital timesheets

  • Ideal for shift-based staff on a variety of contracts

StaffSavvy Feature Highlights

“With a large number of venues and casual staff, we needed a really fluid system to meet our scheduling complexities, and StaffSavvy offers just that.”

Candice Thomlinson-Smith
Registration Service Manager, Oxfordshire County Council

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Council Case Study

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Training and Support You Can Trust

Unlimited training and support from a team of real people with years of experience.

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Beth

Theatre & Integrations Specialist

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Emily

HR Specialist

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Jessica

Visitor Experience Specialist

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Poppy

Key Account Manager

  • "Emily has been a star helping me with many queries during the set up of StaffSavvy. Thanks."

    Wirral Council

  • "Super quick and helpful to find reports much appreciated!"

    New Plymouth District Council

  • "The support from the entire team is outstanding - 10 stars out of 10!"

    Warwick Student Union

  • "Logged a query very late UK time (11.30pm) and received a very quick response. Thanks!"

    Merrigong Theatre Company

  • “Poppy responded and resolved my query immediately.”

    Horizon Care

  • "Excellent service and quick resolution to my problem."

    Worcester Student Union

  • "Excellent knowledge to share, extremely helpful. Very grateful for the assistance! Thank you."

    Compass Children’s Homes

  • "The team are super helpful, really personable, and responsive when we need help or advice. "

    York Student Union

  • "Consistently providing great support, answered fully and quick turnaround 👍"

    Wirral Council

  • "Jess was a superstar and resolved my query easily and quickly!"

    The Grand Pier

  • "Great software, and Beth from StaffSavvy has been an excellent source of guidance in helping my team get setup to use. Fully recommend."

    House of Commons

  • "Jess was patient and very helpful with my non-technical explanations of the problem. Many thanks. Much appreciated."

    Southbank Centre

  • "Great support done on time."

    Brighton Centre

Public Sector HR & Scheduling FAQs

  • Yes. StaffSavvy is live on G-Cloud 15.

  • StaffSavvy allows you to assign custom pay scales and national/local pay spines directly to staff contracts. The system automatically maps skills, roles, and length-of-service milestones to the correct pay spine point, ensuring accurate hourly rates or annual salaries across full-time, part-time, and casual council staff without manual spreadsheet calculations.

  • Yes. StaffSavvy easily manages multi-venue and multi-department setups. You can create distinct site rules, shift templates, and manager permissions for each library branch or civic facility. Staff can be trained and assigned across multiple venues, and the system automatically prevents double-booking while ensuring location-specific cover requirements are met.

  • StaffSavvy’s contract engine supports complex working arrangements including compressed hours, fixed-term, annualized, and casual/bank contracts. You can set minimum/maximum hour limits per contract period, define custom TOIL (Time Off In Lieu) rollover and expiry rules, and set up automatic minimum pay allowances or top-ups if contracted hours aren't fully scheduled.

  • Absolutely. StaffSavvy lets you set hard or soft limits on maximum working hours per week or pay period (crucial for Tier 2/4 visa compliance or Working Time Regulations). If a shift allocation or cover request exceeds an employee's maximum allowed hours, the system will automatically block the schedule or alert managers, preventing non-compliance before it happens.

  • The system supports both fixed yearly entitlements and earned (accrued) holiday per hour worked. For public sector organisations, StaffSavvy can manage complex pro-rata calculations and length-of-service rules—automatically escalating staff holiday allowances or pay rates when employees hit specific milestone years of service.

  • Yes. Through the StaffSavvy app, employees can submit shift cover requests, set weekly availability preferences, or relinquish shifts. Managers retain full oversight with customisable approval rules, and the system automatically checks that any staff member stepping in to cover a shift holds the required skills, contract permissions, and available hours before a swap is approved.

  • Using StaffSavvy’s Contract Date Sets, you can define specific date ranges (such as school holidays, bank holiday closures, or election periods) where default contract rules, expected hours, or availability limits are temporarily adjusted or bypassed, allowing you to adapt scheduling for seasonal council demands effortlessly.