HR Advice & Support for Small-Medium Businesses
Value and Expertise
I’m a CIPD qualified HR Generalist Consultant with 25 years of HR experience and creating business relationships across a diverse range of industry sectors (including Media, Insurance, Charity, Not for Profit, Medical, Education, Research, Food & Beverage, Restaurants, Legal, Engineering, Construction, IT, Finance, Retail, Consultancy, Automotive, Manufacturing and Music).
I assist start-ups and small to medium businesses with anything from day to day HR support or advice, creating an HR presence, resolving complex HR issues, driving forward HR strategy or projects and implementing innovative HR decision making that fits the needs of the business.
Each business and their HR needs are different, and so I am flexible in my approach to providing your business with HR support, resources and/or services that work for you. I offer a wide breadth of HR consultancy to account for the needs of a small business and I will regularly be in communication with you, be it by email, telephone, remote or onsite to ensure that HR is moving in the right direction for you and your business.
For many small - medium businesses, the cost of employing a dedicated in-house HR professional is prohibitive. Yet the need to have some HR capability and knowledge base is essential in staying on top of ever-changing regulations. Although you may have an individual within your business with HR responsibility, the need to constantly update and refresh your knowledge of changes to legislation and implement best practice makes this a difficult task for someone with other duties to attend to.
Using outsourced HR services allows you to tap into the unique set of skills and expertise a dedicated HR professional brings. On a retained contract, you have a highly skilled and experienced HR expert who is dedicated to managing your business’s issues as though they were part of your business but without the overhead.
How I can Help!
Whether you're just starting out or looking to restructure I can help. I will be there, as questions or issues arise, every step of the way.
I can help you at any level, from impartial advice or practical assistance.
Here are just some ideas as to how I can help your business...
• Heading up/creating an HR Function and/or supporting existing HR in situ
• HR Advice and/or Services to address issues you cannot address
• Meetings with key members and/or with your entire staff to discuss and implement changes
• Access to HR resources
• Preparatory services, advice, support, resources for Employee Relations issues e.g.; disciplinary, grievance hearings and/or other types of meetings such as absence management and performance management.
• Meetings to determine how HR can better serve your company and its changing needs
• HR Compliance and undertaking policy and procedure review to ensure they are legally compliant and fit for purpose
• Unlimited HR Advice
• Contract review
• HR projects advice and/or implementation
• Training delivery
• HR reporting on areas such as absence, performance reviews, probationary periods from an HR database
• Employee engagement exercises to capture the current employee climate
• Getting the best from your HR Information management systems
• Taking care of the employee lifecycle from recruitment, interviewing, probation, and appraisals to exit interviews.
• Day to day HR operational support and/or administration to enact change
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