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HR support that protects the business and respects the people

Employment law compliance, contracts, policies and hands-on support with the difficult conversations. Outsourced HR for UK businesses that are too big to wing it and too small for a full-time HR department.

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You probably need this if

  • Staff are on contracts copied from the internet, or none at all.
  • A grievance or disciplinary is looming and you are not sure of the process.
  • Absence is rising and nobody is managing it.
  • You are about to hire, restructure or make redundancies.

What good looks like

  • Compliant contracts, a handbook and policies your managers actually use.
  • Difficult situations handled fairly, documented properly and resolved.
  • A hiring process that finds the right people and keeps them.
  • Someone to call before a people issue becomes a legal one.

Who it is for

Businesses with five to a few hundred employees that need reliable HR advice and documentation without the cost of an in-house HR manager.

Get the foundations right

Every employee is legally entitled to a written statement of terms from day one. We produce compliant contracts, a staff handbook and the core policies your business needs, written in plain English and tailored to how you actually operate.

  • Employment contracts and written statements
  • Staff handbook and essential policies
  • Right-to-work and onboarding process
  • Holiday, sickness and absence procedures
  • Flexible working and family leave

Support when things get difficult

Disciplinary, grievance, capability, long-term sickness, redundancy and TUPE. These are the situations where getting the process wrong is expensive. We guide you through each step, draft the letters and sit in on meetings if you want us to.

Recruitment and people planning

Job descriptions, salary benchmarking, advert writing, shortlisting and structured interviews. We help you hire the right people the first time, and plan the roles your growth will need before you are desperate for them.

The operating rhythm

Run once, properly, every month.

Weeklybank reconciliationPay runRTI + pensionsMonth endmanagement packQuarterVAT returnYear endaccounts + taxTHE RHYTHMRun once, properly,every month

Reconciled weekly, paid on time, reported at month end, filed on the quarter and closed at year end. When the rhythm holds, the numbers are always current and nothing is a surprise.

How it works

  1. 01

    Audit

    We review contracts, policies, records and current issues and rank the risks.

  2. 02

    Foundations

    Contracts, handbook and essential policies written for how you actually work.

  3. 03

    Support

    Case-by-case support or a monthly retainer with an advice line and documentation.

  4. 04

    Plan

    Recruitment, organisation design and people planning aligned to your growth plan.

Questions

HR FAQs

Do you provide legal advice?

We provide HR advice grounded in current UK employment law. For disputes that look likely to reach a tribunal we work alongside employment solicitors and can introduce you to one.

Can you handle a one-off issue rather than a retainer?

Yes. You can engage us for a single redundancy, grievance or contract review and then decide whether an ongoing retainer makes sense.

Do you cover Scotland and Northern Ireland?

We cover England, Wales and Scotland. Northern Ireland has separate employment legislation and we will tell you upfront if a matter needs a local specialist.

Talk to us about hr.

A thirty-minute conversation, no charge and no pitch. Tell us where the business is and where you want it to be, and we will tell you honestly whether we can help.