HR advice
Your HR Business Partner
You will have a designated HR Business Partner for your school who will work with you through the most complex of workforce cases, offering professional and specialist advice, assistance, support and flexibility.
Your designated Business Partner will take the time to get to know your school, your ethos and the individual challenges you face by meeting with school leaders on a termly basis. You will also have access to our wider team of professionals meaning that there will always be someone here to help you, now and in the future.
We provide unlimited telephone, remote video call, or email advice and guidance to enable you to proactively manage and resolve your HR issues informally. Where feasible we will always attempt to facilitate the informal resolution of workforce issues in the first instance, but our expert advisers are also on hand to advise you on the application of formal procedures as and when the need arises. Where you need face to face support and 'real time' advice, we will attend formal HR meetings, in person or remotely, in line with the package bought.
We act as a 'critical friend' and provide support and challenge to assist you to reach fair and reasonable decisions in line with employment law. HR advice will be available 8.30am - 5pm, Monday to Friday. Your allocated HR Adviser will be available directly through Teams, email or mobile phone throughout the year other than on public holidays. We are flexible to suit your needs and will be available to attend meetings outside of the normal school day.
We provide a suite of model policies and procedures, which are reviewed regularly and updated in line with current good practice and legislation. Our termly HR updates provide our customers with everything you need to know regarding the impact of any statutory or legislative changes impacting the school and academy workforce and any resulting change to our HR policy framework.
