Our professional and experienced teams can help you to maximise the effectiveness of your workforce by providing a portfolio of Payroll, HR Administration and Advisory Services. This includes the tools and templates that you may need to ensure that your people management, engagement and development practices are fully aligned to the School’s strategic business plan and objectives, and are fully compliant with employment legislation and best practice.
Benefits
Key Features:
- HR and Employment Relations Services
- Terms and conditions and employment contract advice
- Recruitment advertising service
- Pre employment and right to work checks
- Disclosure & Barring Service Checks
- Barred List checks
- Payroll and Pensions service for teaching and non teaching staff
- Toolkits, policies and best practice guides
- Dedicated website available 24/7 and regularly updated with news and information
- Telephone support available Monday to Friday from 8.30am to 5.30pm
More details
We recommend our traded service to all schools and nurseries. Our team is totally committed to the continuous improvement of our service year on year. We recognise that all of our customers will each have different requirements and are looking for a HR Service that meets their particular needs.
OUR CURRENT SERVICES include:
HR and Employment Relations Services:-
Advice, guidance and support with all of the following:
• Employee performance and capability
• Optimising attendance (reducing sickness and other unplanned absences)
• Occupational health referrals
• Disciplinary and grievance issues; investigations; case and hearing preparation and presentation support
• Trade union relations; individual and collective consultation and negotiation
• Advice on personnel matters as they relate to child abuse and safeguarding investigations in consultation with the child protection services and the police
Planning and Implementing Organisational Change and Development:-
Advice, guidance and support with all of the following
• Identification of affected staff groups
• Attend formal meetings to support consultation on changes
• Implementation of union and staff consultation process
• Job and role design
• Job and role evaluations
• Redundancy and Retirement proposals
• Staff support for those affected (access to People at Work)
Terms and conditions and employment contract advice:-
Advice, guidance and support with all of the following
• Interpretation and implications of nationally and locally agreed terms and conditions
• The practical implementation of family friendly policies
• Negotiation of settlement agreements
• Contractual advice on flexible working
• Variation of contractual terms
Pre employment and right to work checks:-
Advice, guidance and support with all of the following:
• Asylum and Immigration queries
• Disclosure and Barring Checks
• Barred List Checks
• Verification of qualifications
• Prohibition Orders via the Teaching Agency (Teachers only)
Payroll and Pensions Service:-
Advice, guidance and support with all of the following:-
• Full administration of pay to individual members of staff
• Completion and submission of the annual Teachers’ Pension return
• Pension scheme administrative support for Teachers and Support staff schemes (we are unable to give direct pensions advice)
Terms
• A number of ad hoc services available for purchase as and when required
• Access to experienced and highly skilled staff
• Significant local knowledge of Haringey Schools and other Children’s Services providers
• Sound understanding of prevailing socio, economic and demographic context in which schools operate and the challenges they face
Service Standards We aim to deliver a good service and will work closely with all our customers to ensure we are supporting you in the most appropriate and effective way.
To ensure that we are able to deliver this, we ask that you consult with us when setting dates for meetings that you would like for us to attend.
Support and advice is available Monday to Friday 8.30am to 5.30pm by telephone and/or e-mail.
Additional support to attend meetings outside of these hours is available by arrangement
It is appreciated that occasionally problems may occur and these are usually best resolved through discussion with the individual concerned. If however you remain unsatisfied with any aspect of the service your concerns can be escalated to the Head of HR Operations.
Standard terms and conditions apply. Please see the shopping basket for more details
