Services

Employment

HR consultancy

We provide a range of HR consultancy services which gives clients access to specialist knowledge that they otherwise couldn't afford to have in-house or to help them manage specific initiatives, allowing them to free up internal resources and gives HR the time to focus on strategic work.

Our team of experienced consultants, headed by Dennis Taylor, previously Head of Employee Relations at Tesco, and with over 30 years experience as a HR professional, work with clients to identify their requirements and agree a terms of reference setting out the aims, objectives, deliverables and timescales within each project.

Our expertise covers all key elements in the employment cycle, from recruitment to termination, including:

• job descriptions and competency frameworks
• performance management
• managing mergers and acquisitions
• redundancy programmes and business transfers
• carrying out investigations
• culture change programmes

Major HR consultancy projects

Major HR consultancy projects have included:

• Assisting with the management of redundancy programmes at the Prudential, (involving 850 job losses) and Time Out Magazine.

• Developing a change management strategy for DEFRA, involving contracting out the IT function which was presented to Alun Michael, the then Minister of State to enable the go ahead to be given.

• Working with Newham Council to put a new organisation design process in place and then manage change, putting the structure in place to manage the Council's input into the 2012 Olympics.

• Assisting British Transport Police in developing a strategy and action plan for the re-structuring of the HR function and the introduction of a new pay and grading structure across the whole organisation.