HR Advisers
Our HR Consultancy Services
The educational sector, HR in schools
Birch-HR supports all roles in schools including a comprehensive consultancy and advisory service to the Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Catholic Education Leader (CSEL), Headteacher, Senior Leadership Team (SLT), managers, internal HR teams, governors and trustees. We advise and guide maintained schools, academies, MATs and independent and free schools. We also empower our clients’ leadership and management teams to deliver their schools’ HR essentials, leadership and performance priorities including:
performance priorities including:
- Employee relations advice (disciplinary, grievance, capability, attendance management, special leave, redundancy, restructures, dignity at work, dispute resolution, settlement agreements, safeguarding, trade union/employee engagement etc)
- Leadership training and coaching
- Workplace investigations
- Recruitment and talent management
- Transfer of undertakings (protection of employment) Regulations (TUPE)
- Mediation – workplace and commercial
- Leadership development programme
- Planning and implementing complex change projects
- Pay, grading and reward
With HR experts, resources and services:
- School specific HR policies, procedures and guidance
- School specific HR template letters, documentation and checklists to comply with employment law, education regulations and best practice
- Toolkits to maximise leadership and people performance
- Implementation of coaching and culture change to maximise outcomes.
- Access to schools expert HR Consultants and talent
The Small-medium enterprise (SME) and charity sectors
Birch-HR enables quick access to expert commercially focussed HR professionals, who are experienced and skilled to give business and charity specific consultancy
advice and guidance including:
- Employee relations support (disciplinary, grievance, capability, attendance management, redundancy etc)
- Leadership training and coaching
- Mediation – workplace and commercial
- Workplace investigations
- Recruitment and talent management
- Leadership development programme
- Planning and implementing change projects
- Contracts of employment
- Policies and procedures (Employee Handbook)
- Drafting letters and documents
Our Blog
News & Events
We provide regular HR news, briefing and training events for our clients. We provide thought leadership articles for HR, education and business national media.
Mental Health Awareness
9th -15th May was Mental Health Awareness week and theme was loneliness.
At Birch-HR we asked what does wellbeing and mental health mean to employers?
Being a Good Intern
The key to being a good Intern…enjoy yourself!
Our HR Intern, Peter Emmanuel, gives us a brief insight on what it is like to work at Birch-HR and gives his top tips on being a good Intern.
June is for proactively supporting employees
Did you know that creating an informed, open and supportive culture can really help your school and business become an employer of choice?
Becoming an employer of choice depends on several factors, but let’s start with making your team feel supported, performing well and a culture they genuinely enjoy working for.
Enquire Today
We look forward to arranging a convenient time to establish how we can best support your current leadership with the delivery of both current and future HR priorities.