Human Resources Consulting and Project Management

We have long recognised that we can enhance client support with specialist human resources input.

Our HR specialists can provide expert support exactly when and where it’s needed, providing clients with the expertise to handle large and complex exercises with the minimum of fuss.

We deliver HR support in the areas outlined below:

Job Evaluation

It’s increasingly important to be able to show that every job in your company has been assessed and is paid appropriately, eliminating the possibility of equal pay claims, as well as embedding a sense that you treat all staff equally.

Total Reward

While take-home pay is still a key motivator for most staff, the range of other benefits, including pensions in particular, can make the difference when trying to attracting the very best talent in your field. Our approach to designing total reward packages can help make your business a really attractive place to work, as well as being tax efficient.

Equality, Diversity and Discrimination

We can supply the building blocks you need to embed equality and diversity in your organisation, including a comprehensive suite of documents and audit tools.

Recruitment & selection

When you’re recruiting you want to attract the strongest candidates, and find out exactly what they could contribute to your company. We can help with the entire recruitment process including advertising, processing applications, creating clear job descriptions, person specifications and application forms, through to psychometric testing and making offers of employment.

Appraisal

You might be surprised at how many companies fail to appraise their staff. But how else can you assess how people are performing, put stretching objectives in place, and provide support to help people achieve their potential. It’s a truism that people are usually a company’s most valuable asset. If that’s the case, then make sure you maintain and nurture it, and help get things back on track when ineffective performance is identified.

Performance Management

Good performance usually reflects good recruitment, but many poor performers can be turned around if you work out what’s getting in the way of success, and putting in place support, training and review processes to get people up to speed.

Talent Management

Many businesses have unknown talents turning up for work day after day. To get the best out of your staff, and motivate and retain them, you need to distinguish between those with the potential to go far, and those who are already performing at their limits. Once you've identified the potential high-fliers, you need a process in place to ensure they get there. We can help you on all these fronts.

Absence management

Why are absence rates higher in general in the public sector than the private sector? And why is absence more common in some companies than others? The answers almost certainly lie in a combination of culture and sick pay arrangements. If you want to improve your attendance, we can help in various ways centred on how you measure and monitor attendance, how your sick pay scheme works while keeping you out of court for disability discrimination.

Hands-on disciplinary and grievance investigations

Sometimes it can be useful to have an outside body carry out independent investigations into disciplinary issues and grievances. We have the expertise to do this, and can provide an independent appeal process.

Staff Surveys

A well-crafted employee survey can tell you a lot about what’s happening in your company that may have passed you by. Whether it’s the extent to which your workforce has “bought in” to what you are trying to achieve, or finding out why staff are leaving, we can design a survey for you which will tell you what you want to know.

Redundancy, Transfer of Undertakings & change management

Another truism about work in the 21^st century is that the only constant is change. Whether you are coping with redundancies, involved in a TUPE transfer, or simply re-organising your business we can provide all the expertise you require to make sure you use effective and legal processes . We’ll deal with selection criteria, selection pools, collective and individual consultation, job descriptions and person specifications, as well as working out whether TUPE applies.