HR Consultancy
Why Choose Us?
Birch-HR makes it simple to budget for your HR requirements.
What makes us unique?
Birch-HR makes it simple to budget for your HR requirements. We are HR EXPERTS with a transparent pricing structure that is tailored to your school, business and charity. You will access professionals who have in-depth knowledge of leadership and people management challenges, employment law and best practices with excellent HR strategic AND day-to-day HR consultancy support AND leadership development. Each annual agreement client is assigned a HR consultant who can anticipate when additional specialist support may be beneficial. The HR consultants can be contacted out of hours if needed, via their direct mobile, or e-mail address for urgent issues.
We understand you have taken the step to choose an external HR consultancy service and want you to know that when we are chosen to work with you, we consider ourselves an integral part of your team, your school, business or charity. To this purpose, we offer unlimited e-mail, telephone advice and support via our Advisory team, with full access to HR consultancy attendance at on site meetings, hearings, appeals and via video conference. We are there as and when you need us with charges either via an annual contract and/or a competitive day rate. You can opt to have Birch-HR operate as your standalone HR consultancy support team, or we will work alongside your internal executive and/or HR team.
Reasons to join us:
Birch-HR Services
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Extensive HR education, business and charity knowledge and experience.
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Client focussed personalised HR consultancy and leadership solutions.
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Named qualified HR Consultants, with a strong professional development programme in place.
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Flexible, annual contract and/or day rate consultancy (minimum half a day).
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Approved by Churchmarketplace (CMP), as a HR national supplier for Catholic schools/Multi-academy Companies (MACs).
Access to our HR Advisory Team plus other specialist or additional HR resources, experts and capacity.
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Easy onboarding for new clients.
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Exclusive 24/7 client log in portal to access toolkits, resources and education sector relevant advice.
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Superb networks plus strategic leadership support up to executive board level.
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Cost effective and flexible.
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Full indemnity insurance.
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Excellent testimonials and a proven track record.
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Detailed understanding of Catholic Education Service (CES) policies, procedures, and ethos. We are on the Official Journal of the European Journal (OJEU) framework.
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We provide regular HR news, briefing and training events for our clients. We provide thought leadership articles for HR, education and business national media.
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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.


