HR Consultancy
HR Consultancy
Our HR Consultancy services range from fully outsourced support to strategic help with business-critical projects. WorkNest can work alongside you across the entire employee lifecycle, from recruitment and onboarding to learning and development, retention and restructures.
Delivered by a growing network of experienced and qualified HR Consultants from across the UK, our HR services allow you to easily manage operational day-to-day requirements, as well as conduct tactical reviews of your people strategy and organisational design.
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Our HR Consultancy Services
Outsourced Operational HR
If you don’t have an HR Manager or your team is overstretched, you can outsource your day-to-day HR requirements to us.
Your dedicated HR expert will support all types of activities, from helping you to devise and deliver a comprehensive People Plan to providing employee relations across the entire employee lifecycle and alleviating the admin burden of onboarding new starters, managing exits and issuing contract variation letters.
Fixed-fee Recruitment
Lean on our highly-experienced team to drive your end-to-end recruitment process – saving you time and maximising hiring success.
Our fixed-fee service includes everything from reviewing the job description and preparing the advert to sourcing advertising, incorporating EDI considerations and managing post-offer checks. Plus, if you’re struggling to recruit but not sure why, uncover areas for improvement with an illuminating recruitment audit.
Outsourced Payroll Services
Take the stress out of employee payroll processing and pension administration with support from a dedicated professional.
Your payroll expert will ensure payments are accurate and made on time, taking care of everything from producing employee payslips to ensuring statutory sick pay, maternity pay and paternity pay are calculated correctly. You can also easily add-on automated pension and BACs processing as part of this service.
People Management Training
Apply fresh thinking to a broad range of HR challenges with our remote or in-person training courses, delivered by seasoned HR trainers.
Specially developed for business leaders, HR professionals and managers, some of our most popular training courses include ‘HR and Employment Law Essentials’, ‘Mental Health and Wellbeing at Work’ and ‘Effective Recruitment’. We also offer team-building facilitation, leadership development programmes and coaching.
Hands-on support with HR projects
Entirely bespoke, based on sector experience and designed to your exact needs, our HR Consultancy team offer a wide range of services to help you achieve your organisational goals.
These cover everything from helping you to future-proof your organisational design, conducting gap analysis exercises to expose potential shortfalls across your employee lifecycle and offering hands-on help with investigations, hearings and appeals, to name a few.
It’s our job to guide you through your options and work with you to implement changes in the most efficient, cost-effective way.
Why choose us?
Experts in HR
At WorkNest HR, we’re known for our bespoke service and the quality of our support. Not only is our expertise unmatched, but we take the time to know you so that we can function as a true extension of your team.
- 40 employed HR Consultants, many of whom are CIPD qualified, chartered and fellows
- A dedicated Organisational Development Team of specialist trainers and consultants
- Cradle-to-grave HR service for new start-ups and growing businesses – everything from managing your HR administration through to defining your HR strategy
- Specialists in managing projects such as pay and reward, recruitment, HR systems, onboarding, redundancy and restructuring
- HR Consultants based in Aberdeen, Edinburgh, Glasgow, Newcastle, Chester, Horsham and London, working remotely and in your premises
Who you’ll be working with
Greg Guilford
Director of HR Consulting
Toyah Marshall
Principal Employment Law Adviser
Client stories
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Gus Hosein
Executive Director, Privacy International
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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
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I’ve taken WorkNest into every organisation that I’ve worked with. I’ve introduced them to many teams and many colleagues and referred them with absolute pleasure because I genuinely trust in the service that we get.”
People Director, The Works