Human Resource Services

Much of how and why a business operates successfully depends upon its culture, size and the demographics of personnel. We can help you with changes big or small. We offer step by step guidance, on how to bring about change to improve your employee performance.

If you have a strategy but do not have the capacity to implement it, we can provide facilitate and manage the plan with you. If your environment has changed, we can help you develop the infrastructure to start on the right path for business survival or improvement.

Joining the organisation:

Recruitment

How to recruit well
Write attractive advertisements for vacancies
How to write a job description and person specification
How to benchmark salary and benefit packages for vacancies
Interviewing techniques – choosing the right method for each type or vacancy
Making the offer to prospective employee, letter, I.D/security checks
Draft contract of employment

Induction

Devise Induction pack, show how effective welcoming a new employee can be
How and why to introduce a probation/learning period at start of employment
Show how to create a career path (if applicable/possible)

During employment

Performance Management

How to performance manage employees
How to introduce performance management in your business
How to create an appraisal system fit for purpose in your business
What to include in an employee performance development plan
How to work positively through a performance improvement plan with under performing employees

Attendance Management

Managing to make the return to work process work for you and your employees
How to manage the Fit note and a phased return to work with temporary adjustments
Paying statutory sick pay, industrial injury payments and the benefits of occupational health at work
How to introduce flexible working policies and what potential positive benefits it can bring to staff productivity
How to manage working time regulations

Work Life Balance – ‘how to maintain business as usual’

Being a parent and employee
How to manage adoption, maternity, paternity and parental leave
Supporting line managers in planning resources to cover temporary absences
Ensuring front line managers can manage same workload with less resources

Employee Reward

Salaries and performance related pay structures
Non-financial rewards
Sick pay – creating an enhanced benefit
General expenses.

Disciplinary and Grievance - ‘prevention is better than a painful cure’

How to create fair and transparent processes
How management should use the processes correctly
ACAS code of conduct adherence
Decision appeal process

Learning and Development

How to implement an effective succession plan for promotion and deputising
Is blended learning the way forward for your business?
How to implement a blended learning solutions

Up-skilling for Managers

Short sessions for line managers on the importance of using company policies and procedures. The do’s and do not’s in handling problems with employees. We use simple case studies to bring to life the statutory obligations driving much of human resources management today. This approach helps managers to stop fearing employment law, whilst understanding the possible costly implications these legal challenges convey.
How to maintain loyalty through current job roles enrichment
Are you a competency or target or both driven company?
Do your employee job roles reflect your overall objectives?

Leaving the company

Ending Employment

Terminating the contract – how to dismiss employee fairly
How managers can prepare for an employee tribunal to reduce legal costs
Retiring employees – What does removing default retirement age mean for you?
Resignations – how, when and why you should perform exit interviews
Redundancy – how to follow the ACAS three stage process, communicating effectively and in timely manner
Employee entitlements in a redundancy situation
Coping with redundancy – how to manage those employees left behind after redundancy.

For more information about this service please contact us