HR AND PAY SOFTWARE FOR EMERGENCY SERVICES
With Zellis’ AI-enabled HR and Pay platform, Blue Light organisations can deliver accurate payroll, ensure compliance with statutory obligations and support wellbeing, all while reducing administrative burden and controlling costs.
How we help blue light organisations thrive
Attract, support and retain critical frontline talent
We understand the pressures facing police forces and emergency services – from national skills shortages to rising fatigue and wellbeing risks. Zellis helps you deliver seamless onboarding, reliable pay and supportive digital experiences that build trust, improve engagement and help you retain the people your communities rely on.
Unlock real operational and workforce intelligence
Zellis brings together HR, payroll and workforce data to give leaders a clear, real-time view of what’s happening across stations, teams and roles. Track overtime, absence, resourcing pressures and workforce trends, so you can make informed decisions that strengthen resilience and protect service delivery.
Create cost, time and efficiency gains under public scrutiny
Blue Light organisations must deliver more with less, while remaining fully accountable. Zellis helps reduce manual administration, improve payroll accuracy, automate compliance and optimise people processes, freeing up time and budget to reinvest where it matters most: frontline services.
Shaped around the needs of emergency services
Deliver accurate, resilient payroll
Run highly complex payroll with the accuracy, transparency and audit trails Blue Light organisations depend on.
Control workforce costs while protecting frontline cover
Gain real-time visibility of pay, overtime, absences and more – helping manage tight budgets without compromising service delivery.
Unify data into a single source of truth
Bring people, pay and operational data together in one secure platform – reducing duplication, manual processes and risk.
Stay compliant, audit-ready and inspection-confident
Built-in controls support statutory pay requirements, governance standards and public accountabilit.
Recognised, reliable and secure
Trusted and accredited
We’re formally recognised and accredited by key industry bodies like HMRC, Irish Revenue, The Pensions Regulator, and partner with some of the most recognised frameworks.
Public sector pensions
Our software caters all major pension schemes across education, civil service, and government.
Regular software releases
We release regular software updates to keep you compliant with fast-moving public sector regulations.
We understand the unique challenges faced by Blue Light Services
Built for precision, compliance and resilience in policing and emergency response.
From frontline officers to support teams, every shift, every pay decision and every compliance requirement matters, for your people and the public you serve.
We strive to keep our customers one step ahead of change in the areas that matter most to them, from meeting complex regulations and sustainability goals, to hiring and retaining the best talent, to mitigating funding constraints by driving operational efficiency.
Award-winning pay software for emergency services
When it comes to public sector pay excellence, look no further than Zellis. Our award-winning pay software is geared up to provide the functionality, flexibility, and performance that Blue Light organisations need.
Our dedicated tools for all public sector pay regulations make reporting, pensions and compliance easier. You name it, we’ve got it.
Our vision is to deliver the future of pay. That’s why with HCM Air and ZellisONE Pay, you can pay employees instantly and more accurately, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year.
We work to give your employees access to tools that enhance their financial wellbeing – from Earned Wage Access (EWA) and pay transparency to personalised financial guidance. EWA is just one part of our broader commitment to helping employees feel more confident and in control of their finances.
Next-generation HR software for Blue Light Services
If you need to manage complex, multi-role, multi-post and multi-contract workforces, Zellis HCM AIR is already helping leading public sector and Blue Light organisations transform the way they operate.
Zellis HCM AIR’s deployment in the Azure public cloud delivers industry-leading scalability, security and resilience supporting 24/7 services and ensuring your workforce systems are always available when they’re needed most.
Help officers and staff feel supported and valued with self-service that is personalised, mobile and tightly integrated into everyday operational systems and processes.
Simplify reporting, strengthen governance and establish a single source of truth. Unlock actionable insight from your pay and HR data with built-in analytics tools that support better workforce and resourcing decisions.
Compensation management for emergency services
Zellis supports job evaluation and grading, helping Blue Light organisations maintain fair and transparent pay structures, meet legal obligations, and strengthen recruitment and retention.
With around 60 public sector and Blue Light organisations using Zellis’ Compensation functionality, we bring proven expertise in both software and consultancy across GLPC, NHS Online and bespoke job evaluation frameworks tailored to individual organisational requirements.
Drawing on established technology, deep sector knowledge and hands-on experience, our reward consultants provide insight, guidance and practical support across:
- Equal pay audits
- Job evaluation
- Pay modelling
- Equality impact assessments
- Pay and bonus reviews
- Gender pay reporting
Managed payroll services for Blue Light organisations
Expertise at scale
We have more than 700 experts, who work with our own technology to meet your bespoke business requirements – whatever they may be.
Resilient delivery
Our Managed HR and Pay Services model offers resilience, continuity, and economies of scale to de-risk your pay and HR operations.
Stay in control
Maintain control and visibility with our modern and secure customer collaboration portal. View the status of your pay, check reports and make approvals in-real time.
Trust
We develop a close partnership with every customer. We take a structured approach focused on continuous improvement, strict governance, and measurable value.
Don’t just take our word for it
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