Our strong and experienced advisory team of HR practitioners and consultants have significant expertise in working across the education sector.
About the HR Advisory Service
Our priority is to help schools to focus on improving learning outcomes for children and young people by supporting the management and development of their workforce, providing accurate, timely advice and helping to manage risk and maximise opportunities.
Our adaptable and responsive service provides generous and flexible hours of contact time, unlimited telephone and email support and a dedicated account manager. Bespoke packages and multi-year discounts are also available.
We provide a wealth of service available as part of our advisory packages or as ad hoc purchases including:
Policy and Employee Relations
- Policy advice and Trade Union consultation
- Casework advice and support with disciplinary, grievance, attendance issues and individual performance
- Advice on job design, grade and pay
Change and Transformation
- Service Redesign including restructuring and organisational change
- Business planning and performance including process reviews and identifying efficiencies
Recruitment and Skills
- Specialist recruitment including senior posts and support with recruitment campaigns to overcome barriers to recruitment and retention
- Training and development courses and programmes for individuals, teams, leadership, whole school and school clusters
Occupational Health and Employee Wellbeing
- Occupational health referrals and advice, health interventions and awareness programmes
Access to confidential counselling, support and information through the Employee Assistance Programme
Consultancy services
- ·A range of bespoke consultancy services, tailored to your needs at competitive rates including:
- -support with change management (including culture change) to improve morale, change attitudes and improve working practices to help your school to reach its goals;
- Management coaching, for example to help develop your middle leadership and school managers of tomorrow
- Support with business performance management to help you set meaningful business objectives and monitor and measure progress on these
- Guidance and support with other workforce changes (eg review of pay and TA hours arrangements)
Please contact us to discuss your specific HR needs on the details below.
City Council HR Advisory Brochure 2015-16
Contact
Name: Jacqui Armand
Title: Business Operations Manager
Service Area: Human Resources
Telephone Number 0115 876 2563
Or contact the HR Advice line on: (0115) 8762000
Email: [email protected]