Colleague Spotlight
Rachel Housego, HR Consultant

Hi, I’m Rachel. I have over 25 years’ experience in Human Resources, having worked in both private and public sectors, including Higher Education, automotive, aviation and mobile phone industries, before joining HR Services Partnership (now part of WorkNest) as an HR Consultant.
I worked full time and studied part time to gain my CIPD qualification, way back in 2002. My experience covers supporting employers to navigate processes, spanning the entire employee life cycle.
Day to day, I particularly enjoy being able to assist our clients with employee relations matters and supporting leadership teams to ensure they have the tools to support and empower their employees.
In 2019, I made a life choice to work part time, and when I’m not working, I am a committee member of my local wildlife garden, which I volunteer time to and am also lucky enough to keep a beehive at. I also love to scuba dive and enjoy exploring the wonders of the ocean.
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Client stories

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Our relationship with WorkNest is more like a supportive partnership. They treat us like peers, and yet provide extraordinary support whenever we need it. Whether it is about the challenges of working through a pandemic or building a new HR strategy, the people at WorkNest have been kind, holding our hand when that was needed (and it was!) and skilled
experts, providing guidance as we required it. We would not have managed through this last period without them, and I look forward to more of this cooperation ahead.”
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WorkNest supports our 280 staff members with Employment Law and Health & Safety and has provided quality management training too.”
Lisa Best
Head of Service Delivery, Catalyst Choice
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We get a great deal of comfort and satisfaction knowing that we have support as and when we need it, in a decisive and responsive way.”
Richard Berry
Group HR Director, Culina Group

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We moved our legal support to WorkNest (formerly Law at Work) having previously used a time and line law firm. It was important, though, that an all-inclusive fee structure did not come at the expense of quality. Thankfully we’ve been delighted with the service we’ve received from WorkNest.”
Chief Executive
Waverley Care
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What we recognised in WorkNest is the background that they have. They are able to supply knowledge and experience in a number of disciplines, which enables us to develop our business in a way that’s safe, to do it on time and with a quality to it.”
Debbie Rainbow
Director of Human Resources and Health & Safety,
Bluestone National Park Resort

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Celia McKeon
Chief Executive, The Joseph Rowntree Charitable Trust (JRCT)
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As the company started to get larger, we knew we had to protect our employees and our contractors both onsite and in the offices. WorkNest is exactly what we needed to move the company forward.”
Joanne Beaver
Operations Director, Beaverfit

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Pineapple have worked with the team at WorkNest (formerly Law at Work) since 2003, and we have built a trusted partnership together. We particularly like WorkNest’s concise and practical advice concerning employment law/HR issues and also appreciate their totally supportive approach in all areas of health and safety.”
General Manager
Pineapple Dance Studios