Temporary staffing across care, catering, cleaning, logistics & admin

A gap in tonight's rota? Consider it covered.

Pineapple Partners supplies vetted, compliant temporary staff when and where you need them. Care assistants and support workers, chefs and catering teams, housekeepers and cleaners, warehouse and logistics crews, and office cover. One call, staff on shift.

  • Five sectors, one agency, one invoice
  • Fully vetted: DBS, right to work and references checked
  • Cover in hours, not weeks

Why we do this

We've run the 6am phone call from both ends.

Pineapple Partners was built by people who have spent years filling shifts for care providers, commercial kitchens and national logistics operators. We know what it feels like when two people call in sick before a weekend. That's exactly the moment we're built for.

Read our story

The problem with "we'll see who we've got"

A staffing gap costs you tonight, not next quarter.

When you're short, you're short now

A care home below safe ratios, a kitchen one chef down on a fully booked Saturday, a warehouse missing its pick targets, a front desk with nobody on it. These problems can't wait for a Monday call-back. Most agencies work office hours. Shifts don't.

Fast can't mean careless

Sending "a warm body" is how providers fail inspections and kitchens fail hygiene audits. Every worker we supply is vetted before they ever appear on our books: identity, right to work, references, and for care roles an enhanced DBS and verified mandatory training.

Speed or safety is a false choice. Our whole business is doing both.

What we supply

Five sectors. One trusted supplier.

Support worker with a resident
Care & Support

Care staff you'd trust with your own family

Residential homes, supported living, home care and complex care. Every care worker arrives with an enhanced DBS, verified mandatory training and references covering the last five years, because in this sector compliance is the job.

  • Care assistants and senior carers
  • Support workers and healthcare assistants
  • Registered nurses, RGN and RMN
  • Days, nights, weekends and block bookings
  • Enhanced DBS and training evidence before first shift
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Chef plating food in a commercial kitchen
Catering & Hospitality

Kitchens kept moving, service kept smooth

From a relief chef for one service to a full catering team for a season. We cover restaurants, care and education catering, events, contract catering and everything in between, with food hygiene certificates checked up front.

  • Head, sous and relief chefs
  • Cooks, kitchen assistants and kitchen porters
  • Catering assistants and front of house
  • Food hygiene certification verified
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Housekeeper with cleaning trolley in a care home corridor
Housekeeping & Cleaning

Clean, safe and ready for inspection

Housekeepers, cleaners and kitchen assistants for care homes, schools and contract sites. The side of a service that visitors and inspectors notice first, staffed properly and vetted to the level the site needs.

  • Housekeepers, cleaners and domestic assistants
  • Kitchen assistants for care and education kitchens
  • Cleaning operatives, with or without DBS
  • Maintenance operatives
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Warehouse operative scanning parcels
Logistics & Industrial

Crews that hit the shift, every shift

We already supply national parcel and warehouse operations daily, so we know what reliability means in this sector: turn up, scan in, hit the rate. Inducted, PPE-ready workers for days, nights and peak.

  • Warehouse operatives, pickers and packers
  • Parcel sorters and loaders
  • Yard and despatch operatives
  • Peak-season ramp-ups and ongoing blocks
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Administrator working at a front desk
Office & Admin

Office cover that just gets on with it

Holiday cover, sickness cover, project surges. Administrators and front-of-house staff who can pick up a phone, a diary and an inbox on day one without a week of hand-holding.

  • Administrators and office assistants
  • Receptionists and front of house
  • Data entry and customer service
  • One day to several months
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Three steps from gap to covered

  1. 1

    Tell us the shift

    Role, site, start time, requirements. A two minute call or message is enough.

  2. 2

    We fill it from our vetted pool

    Workers are matched through our own workforce platform, with compliance already checked, so nothing slows the booking down.

  3. 3

    You confirm the hours

    Clean timesheets, one weekly invoice, and a straight answer if anything ever goes wrong.

Our people

The calibre on our books, every week.

A sample of the workers in our pool. Names withheld, vetting verified.

Care & Support

Senior Care Assistant

9 years in residential and dementia care

NVQ Level 3, enhanced DBS on the Update Service, full mandatory training. Requested by name at two of the homes she covers.

Catering

Relief Chef

14 years, restaurants & contract catering

Comfortable walking into an unfamiliar kitchen an hour before service. Level 3 food hygiene, allergen trained, calm at the pass.

Logistics

Warehouse Operative

6 years, parcel and distribution

Nights regular on a national parcel operation we supply. Never missed a shift in twelve months, consistently top of the pick rate.

Office & Admin

Administrator

11 years across council and healthcare offices

Covers reception, compliance chasing and invoicing without a handover document. The kind of temp offices try to keep.

Questions, answered straight

Frequently asked questions

How quickly can you cover a shift?

Often the same day, and regularly within hours for care and catering, where we hold the deepest pools. Tell us the start time and we'll give you an honest yes or no straight away, not a "we'll try" that leaves you stuck at handover.

How do I know your care staff are compliant?

No care worker goes on shift without an enhanced DBS, verified right to work, references covering the last five years and evidence of mandatory training. You get the compliance profile before the worker arrives, so your own audit file is complete from day one.

Is there a minimum booking?

No. One shift is a booking. Plenty of our clients started with a single emergency night shift and now block-book weeks at a time, but you'll never be pushed into more than you need.

What does it cost?

A single transparent charge rate per hour, agreed before the first booking, covering wages, holiday pay, NI and our margin. No registration fees, no minimum spend, no surprises on the invoice.

Which areas do you cover?

Our strongest pools are in Newcastle and Gateshead, Bristol, Greater Manchester and Bolton, Leeds and Sunderland, with national coverage for ongoing requirements. For volume or ongoing needs we'll build a dedicated local pool around your site, which is exactly how our national logistics accounts run.

Can temps become permanent staff?

Yes. If a worker fits, we'd rather you kept them. We'll agree straightforward temp-to-perm terms up front, and we see a successful transfer as a win for everyone, including us.

The next gap in your rota doesn't have to be your problem.

One conversation is all it takes. Tell us who you need and when, and we'll tell you honestly whether we can cover it, and how fast.

  • Call 0161 524 1715, we answer like people
  • Vetting and compliance evidence supplied with every worker
  • One shift or an ongoing contract, no minimums

Prefer email? info@cucumber-operations.co.uk

Tell us who you need

We reply within one working day. Urgent shift? Call 0161 524 1715.