Services
Operational / Strategic Support
I have over 30 years’ experience in providing HR support. This includes helping you set up your business whether you have 1 employee or 150. This includes support to the owner, leadership team or board. I will work with you to tailor my offering to your business needs.
- Helping you establish HR processes and systems as you recruit your first employee’s.
- I can provide strategic and operational HR advice and support.
- Developing and implementing HR and OD strategies, engaging with all stakeholders to ensure buy into outcomes identified.
- Setting up, establishing and reviewing HR, OD and training services ensuring they meet the needs of your business.
- Delivering and project managing large scale change and transformation projects, including site closures, acquisition and mergers, restructuring and redundancy.
- Developing and implementing Organisational Development strategies to enhance organisational capability and facilitate the people aspects of business change.
- Mergers and Acquisitions – due diligence, TUPE and business integration, offering coaching, guidance and support to line managers in order to develop people management / leadership skills within the organisation.
- Business Change and Restructuring – advising on the legal aspects, supporting you to consider what changes are needed and the impact on your business.
I can provide you with standard templates which you can adapt or I can work with you to ensure the documents are aligned to your business and incorporate your vision/mission which means you are communicating with your employees in a consistent way.
I understand employing your first employee can be daunting and my support includes detailed guidance which you can refer to as well as having access to myself. The templates include employee contracts, handbook and essential policies.
It is crucial that anyone working for you is given the correct documentation whether they are permanent, fixed term, casual/zero hours, self-employed – inside or outside IR35; plus, there are legal requirements on what the contract should contain and when it should be issued.
I’m happy to talk through what you need and how I can support you.
My Offer:
Ready to go template documents (new starter form, contracts, employee handbook) which are easy to understand, covering all the information necessary to protect your business. These will be fully editable. You can buy individual documents or a package which covers everything you need for your employees.
- Review and updating of your templates including your employee handbook and ensuring that it is tailored to the size of your business, is legally compliant and is easy to understand.
- Core HR policies and procedures which are required for your employees or a suite of simple policies which covers all HR issues.
- New starter toolkit of everything you need for your employees. This can be tailored to your needs from basic contract templates to tailored documents. The new starter toolkit starts from £500 which includes:
- Bronze: Checklist on what you need to do to employ your first employee, template contract, basic handbook/guidance.
- Silver: Includes everything in bronze, access to myself for up to 2 hours and guidance on how to adapt the templates.
- Gold: Includes everything in silver, templates and handbook researched and adapted to your business needs and access to additional policies which can be added to handbook.
Often, we recruit like for like but by standing back and considering what you need longer-term for your business to succeed you can better understand what your recruitment need actually is, and once you have recruited, how you can retain that key employee. I can support you with:
- Planning your recruitment processes
- Designing the ideal role to meet your needs
- Developing job descriptions/role profiles and person specifications
- Design adverts and advise on where to advertise
- Arrange and invite candidates to interview/assessment
- Develop your interview questions and support your interview process
- Planning your on-boarding/induction
- Guide you through the probation period/first 6 months and help you to get the very best out of the new employee
- Develop an appraisal process that fits with the needs of your business
Employee Relations and Employment Law Advice
Providing advice to enable you to keep up to date with current employment law changes and understanding how these affect your business thus ensuring this is one less headache you will not need to think about. I will interpret and implement the changes to ensure you remain legally compliant. I encourage resolution through mediation and facilitated conversations thus avoiding lengthly and costly employee relations issues.
- Telephone advice on managing tricky employee relations
- Developing policies and procedures which support your business
- As a fully qualified and accredited (Civil Mediation Council) mediator I can assist in resolving conflict between employees and help with rebuilding broken relationships.
Ending the Employment Relationship
I can advise you and help you navigate through the often-tricky legal requirements when dealing with resignations, dismissals, retirement and redundancies.
Employee Performance, Capability, Behaviour and Mediation
For a business to be successful, employees need to know what standards and behaviours are expected of them. I can support you to develop a simple performance/appraisal process which ensures everyone is clear on the expectations.
- Performance / appraisal process
- Succession planning
- Performance management process
- Mediation when employees are in conflict with each and this is impacting on the business
Training, Development and Coaching
A business needs to know its strengths and weaknesses. I can work with you to produce either an overarching training plan or individual training plans for your employees, based on an analysis of their qualifications, skills and experience and what the needs are of your business. Any gaps will be identified and plans drawn up to address these gaps.
I can assist with coaching line managers and arranging the delivery of training. I work with a number of associates who specialise in delivering training and development.