For Employers
Practical, proportionate and affordable HR support for small employers.
For businesses with fewer than 20 employees who don't need, or can't yet justify, a full-time HR department.
The problem this solves
When you're the owner, you're often the HR department too.
In a small business, difficult conversations get harder precisely because everyone knows each other. Managing a disciplinary, a grievance, or a performance issue with someone you see every day, whose family you know, is a genuinely different proposition to doing it in a large organisation with proper distance built in.
An independent external adviser brings the objectivity, consistency, and experience that's hard to manufacture from inside a small team. The aim is to protect both sides: a fair, well-documented process protects the employee, and it protects you as the employer too, whatever the outcome turns out to be.
What's covered
Support across the situations that actually come up.
Policy development & review
A complete suite of HR policies built from professionally developed templates, then tailored to your business, your management structure, and how you actually work.
Disciplinary & grievance handling
Guidance through the process from notice to outcome, with the paperwork built properly at every stage.
Workplace investigations
Structured, impartial investigations, properly documented, so any decision that follows is on solid ground.
Absence management
A clear, consistent approach to managing absence fairly, including the difficult long-term cases.
Capability & performance management
A proper process for addressing underperformance, giving people a genuine chance to improve while protecting the business.
Letters & documentation
Drafting and reviewing letters, procedures, investigation reports, meeting notes, and outcome letters, so every stage is properly recorded.
Why outsource this
Support only when you actually need it.
Many small employers only need HR support when something's gone wrong. Outsourcing that support as and when it's needed is often far more cost-effective than employing a full-time HR manager for problems that might only come up a handful of times a year.
The aim isn't unnecessary bureaucracy. It's policies and processes that are practical, proportionate, and actually usable.
What this is and isn't
- Practical HR consultancy and procedural support
- Not legal advice or a reserved legal service
- Policies built from professional templates, tailored to your business
- Independent of any single side, aimed at a fair process for everyone