HR Consultancy Services for UK Employers

Most projects fall into a handful of patterns. An employer is restructuring and needs the process designed and documented before consultation opens. A pay structure has drifted and no longer stands up to an equal pay question. A handbook has been patched for years and nobody is sure which version is contractual. Or a grievance is serious enough that it needs an independent investigator rather than a line manager.

In each case the value is a consultant who has done the same piece of work dozens of times, can tell you in the first meeting where the risk sits, and can produce the paperwork rather than just advise on it.

The two are often confused. HR consultancy is project work with a start and an end: you buy an outcome. Outsourced HR is an ongoing relationship: you buy availability, day-to-day advice and someone who picks up the phone whenever a manager is stuck.

Plenty of employers use both. A consultancy project puts the foundations right, then a retainer keeps them right. If you are unsure which you need, we will tell you plainly on the first call, including when the honest answer is that you do not need us yet.

Every project is quoted as a fixed fee against a written scope, so you know the cost before you commit. Day rates are available where the work is genuinely open-ended, such as interim cover, but our default is a fixed price with a defined deliverable.

We publish the scope, the deliverable and the timescale in the proposal. If the work grows, we agree the change in writing before we do it.