Case study

Social Care Operations PWA

A staff operations PWA for a UK social care provider — installable on any device, replacing scattered paperwork and group chats.

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Social Care Operations PWA hero screenshot
Admin dashboard — operations at a glance
At a glance
Client
UK social care organisation (anonymised)
Timeline
Iterative build, in production
Stack
Lovable, React, Supabase, PWA architecture

The problem

Like most small-to-mid social care organisations, the client was running staff operations across a patchwork of WhatsApp groups, paper forms, and shared spreadsheets. Information went missing, accountability was fuzzy, and there was no single source of truth for who was doing what, when.

Off-the-shelf platforms were either too expensive, too rigid, or too generic for the way the organisation actually worked.

What I built

Progressive Web App

Installable on phones, tablets, and desktops without an app-store deployment.

Staff operations management

Assignments, schedules, task tracking.

Role-based access

Managers, frontline staff, and admin all see the right view.

Operational records

Replacing scattered paperwork with structured, searchable entries.

Real-time updates

Staff see changes immediately across devices.

Care-sector-appropriate UI

Clean, calm, usable on a phone mid-shift.

Visuals
Admin dashboard — KPIs, approvals & open issues
Admin dashboard — KPIs, approvals & open issues
Rota Requests — review and approve staff changes
Rota Requests — review and approve staff changes
Transport Logistics — live vehicle map
Transport Logistics — live vehicle map
Transport Schedule — daily driver assignments
Transport Schedule — daily driver assignments
Team Chat — channels per house & community
Team Chat — channels per house & community
Reports — operational and payroll insights
Reports — operational and payroll insights
Home — quick actions & on-call rota
Home — quick actions & on-call rota
Timesheets — monthly shifts & sleep-ins with BrightHR import
Timesheets — monthly shifts & sleep-ins with BrightHR import
Shift Marketplace — browse and request bank shifts
Shift Marketplace — browse and request bank shifts
Family Connect — log updates for management approval
Family Connect — log updates for management approval

The outcome

The PWA replaced a stack of disconnected tools with a single, installable app that works on every device the staff already own — no procurement of new hardware, no app-store delays.

The build also became a reference case for the next product I'm working on (Aiderra), proving the operational patterns that scale across UK care providers.

Tech & architecture
  • Progressive Web App: installable, offline-aware, works on iOS and Android without store submission.
  • React frontend with role-aware routing.
  • Supabase for auth, Postgres data, and realtime updates.
  • Designed mobile-first for in-shift use.

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