HR services for health and social care

Unlimited day-to-day HR support for a fixed, annual fee.

Be prepared for whatever comes your way with unlimited access to our award-winning HR experts and employment lawyers. With proven experience of advising on the day-to-day and strategic challenges faced by health and social care providers, we are here to help you.

Each year, over 300 organisations across England benefit from HR Core, saving you time and reducing risk.

Key features

Initial familiarisation meeting with a HR consultant to get to know you, your team, and the specific issues in your business; allowing us to support you from day one and making for a smooth transition from your existing provider.

Unlimited access to support and advice from a named and dedicated HR consultant via email or telephone in relation to absolutely any day-to-day HR and employment law issues including (but not limited to):

• Disciplinary and grievances.
• Performance management and capability.
• Sickness absence.
• Recruitment and retention.
• Terms and conditions advice including maternity, paternity and redundancy.

One (<67 employees) or two (>68 employees) half-day on-site visits within 12 months, tailored to your needs. Typically, these are used for meetings or training, but how you use them is up to you. You can also buy more of these on a pay-as-you-go basis.

Attendance at all hearings and resulting appeals, where employee dismissal is a possibility. We advise the hearing manager; giving peace of mind and confidence, as well as drafting outcome letters.

Access to a comprehensive HR documents library of policies, contract templates, letters, scripts and procedure guides that are health and care specific.

Regular ‘HR Essentials for Health and Care’ email bulletins to ensure that you stay updated with employment-related changes.

Pricing

Annual costs are based on staff numbers (head count excluding casual workers or consultants).

• 0 – 20 employees: £213 per employee
• 21 – 50 employees: £185 per employee
• 51 – 100 employees: £110 per employee
• 101 – 150 employees: £85 per employee
• 151 – 200 employees: £81 per employee.

Bespoke support to meet your needs and budget.

Health and care providers are all individual in their requirements, and in the type of HR expertise needed within their organisation and we have therefore created a service that allows you to tailor a HR package to meet your specific needs.

With HR Options, you can select the number of advisory hours and half-day visits to design the support that best meets your needs and budget.

Our team of expert HR consultants tailor their advice based on your specific requirements and challenges. With HR Options, you don’t need to worry about trying to ‘fit in’ with one of our services, you can design your very own HR service that works for you. With HR Options, the more hours and half-day visits you purchase, the cheaper they become. With flexibility to top up throughout the year, and any hours or half days left can be used for training or other proactive projects.

You can tailor your HR Options to address the objectives of your business, from making the most out of supervisions, designing inductions, tackling recruitment and retention, coaching plans through to addressing a limited learning and development budget.

Key features

Access to support and advice from a HR consultant via email or telephone in relation to absolutely any day-to-day HR and employment law issue including (but not limited to):

• Disciplinary and grievances.
• Performance management and capability.
• Sickness absence.
• Terms and conditions advice including maternity, paternity and redundancy.
• ‘HR Essentials for Health and Care’ email bulletins to ensure that you keep updated with employment-related changes.

Pricing

• 20-349 hours: £178 per hour + VAT
• 350-499 hours: £170 per hour + VAT
• 500+ hours: £POA
• 350+ hours: Includes unlimited access to our HR document library of health and care specific HR policies, letters, forms, contracts and settlements.

Consistent, current, high quality policy documents that give you peace of mind.

Developed by our national award-winning employment lawyers, regulatory lawyers and HR experts, each policy includes the relevant key line of enquiry and quality statements in the Single Assessment Framework.

Our ready-to-use terms and conditions, HR policies and supporting documents such as letters and scripts have been designed to provide you with a HR document library and a cost-and-time-effective way to keep your HR documents up to date and compliant.

Supplied in individual, editable Microsoft Word documents, HR policy templates and supporting documents reflect best practice and ensure that your organisation is legally compliant.

Each template can be adapted and branded in accordance with your own existing policies and can be implemented with little editing.

The comprehensive pack of HR policies are included in HR Core.

Or these can be purchased as a one-off package and will be sent directly to your inbox.

Alternatively, you can subscribe to our annual update service, which means that, at the start of the new financial year, you will automatically receive a reviewed set of policies, reflecting any changes in legislation and best practice developments.

You are under no obligation to subscribe to this additional service but, if you do not, it will then be your responsibility to ensure that your documents remain up to date and compliant, with revised legislation as and when appropriate.

Pricing

• One-off package: £1,500 plus VAT
• Annual update subscription: £950 plus VAT (additional to one-off)