Outsourced Solutions for
HR Advisory
Entirely bespoke, solution-driven HR Consultancy Services tailored to your business needs.
Outsourced Solutions for
HR Advisory Services in Essex
The HR advice and services at Park City Consulting are delivered completely bespoke to suit the needs of your business. Whether you are seeking professional advice in relation to an upcoming disciplinary, you need to update your company handbook or you need assistance with your company restructuring. Our services can be accessed completely ad-hock, or we can provide a retained service, acting as your business in-house HR department. We are your trusted HR advisers here to support your business.
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Entirely bespoke, solution-driven HR Consultancy Services tailored to your business needs.
What to expect from Park City
Writing People Policies and Procedures can be costly, time-consuming and stressful, especially when HR isn’t your area of expertise. At Park City Consulting, all company handbooks are written bespoke for each client and can be an important part of company communication – this project will support the development of your company culture including the leadership style, people values and behaviours and tone you set for your organisation.
The Human Resource team at Park City Consulting will partner with your organisation to make sure human resource policy and procedure throughout the organisation fit the needs, goals, and aims of the organisation and its leadership. From Employee engagement to company culture, we will design all your people policies in one place – your ‘people handbook’. Businesses succeed because their people succeed and often the people handbook is at the heart of this success.
Under the law, all businesses must produce a written statement of terms and conditions for their employees. For many, the thought of writing a contract of employment for a new employee can seem daunting, this is where we can help you. The HR Business Partners at Park City can ensure that this burden is removed from your shoulder.
Our employment law experts will take care of everything. From reviewing your existing contracts of employment to the drawing up of new documents for all members of staff. Additionally, as part of our ongoing professional relationship, we will continue to update these documents in line with the rapidly changing employment law and current best practices.
Working as your business’s trusted HR partner, Park City Consulting will support your business to manage the transitional change to your organisation’s structure. Our advisers will manage the project end to end or an extension to your management team providing your business advice and guidance on how to communicate with staff and support planning and analyse of these changes. Changes to a company’s organisational structure if not managed well can cause employees to respond negatively and resist. Our aim is to help you manage this organisational transformation to achieve the outcome you want.
Working closely with your dedicated HR Business Partner who will be offering your business the following support:
- Review your organisational structure and help you make the changes
- Rightsizing a team or department
- TUPE Consultations, mergers and acquisitions
- Collective consultation process and individual consultations
- Redundancy Policy, Procedure and Strategy for Implementation
- Redundancy Selection Process and Criteria
- Project Planning Correspondence and Documentation
- Redundancy Pay
- Appeals Process
The mismanagement of these issues for business owners and Directors can be emotionally draining, costly and time-consuming. This is highlighted by the fact that the average cost of an award at an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal is £10,812, and most findings of unfair dismissal can be attributed to a failure in the procedure that the employer followed.
- The average award at tribunal (2020)
- Sex discrimination £17,420
- Disability discrimination £27,043
- Age discrimination £38,794
- Plus all the legal fees to defend your company which start from around £5,000
The HR Business Partners at Park City Consulting can handle these situations for you in a timely and effective manner, ensuring you are informed of the legal context, statutory position and best practice.
From here, the HR Business Partner will review all documentation and supporting evidence in preparation for the investigation process. Process administration including meeting notes, investigation reports and outcome meetings and letters.
Our HR team will provide the support you need from chairing the meeting to investigation and note-taking. We will partner with you throughout the process. Let us take the worry of people management cases away, clients say we are their trusted business ally a team they can trust with business challenges.
Have you found that you are complying with the latest UK employment laws and yet still having to defend yourself against employee allegations? The enhanced tribunal services at Park City Consulting are here to support you and the business if you ever find yourself at the receiving end of a tribunal claim of ACAS conciliation.
Providing you have followed our HR advice and recommendations any legal costs and awards incurred up to £100,000, in any one claim, would now be covered through this service. There is only a £1,000 administration fee per incident, further terms and conditions apply.
The HR Business Partners at Park City will help you with the following tribunal claims: Wrongful dismissal, Termination of employment (either actual or constructive), Employment related misrepresentation, Unfair dismissal, Unequal pay, Unlawful deduction of wages, Discrimination on the grounds of sex, pregnancy, disability, age, race religion, Sexual or other harassment, Wrongful discipline, Failure to adopt adequate employment or workplace policies, Victimisation and Wrongful deprivation of any career opportunity.
If you want protection from employment tribunal claims, please get in touch today!
Park City Consulting offer a 24-hour helpline service, giving you access to a highly trained Human Resource Advisor anywhere at any time. You can contact the helpline via phone or email and a consultant will be here to support your business based on your HR enquiry. Phone lines are open 24/7, and you can expect a response online by email from a consultant between office hours of 9-5, Mon-Fri. You will have specialist HR advice on hand, whenever you need it. For more information, talk to the HR team at Park City today.
Low morale equals low productivity for your firm, which is why we recommend dealing with issues affecting this quickly. Whatever culture you’re looking to create in your organisation, we can assist.
From happy, healthy and productive people flow better results. What’s the language and tone of your business? What are people talking about when they talk about your organisation, and when your employees discuss your workplace culture, is it what you want to hear? What experience do your people have working for you, and what is the atmosphere like? What is the leadership and management style heading up your business?
A great way to understand your business culture and employee engagement is to run a staff survey. With open honest anonymous feedback from your employees, you can truly understand how everyone is feeling and what you can do to improve your company culture. Based on the feedback, we will work collaboratively with you to identify the changes that need to be made to improve the culture and engagement of your employees.
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Growing a business comes with its ups and downs, and the last thing you want to think about is HR.
Outsourced HR Advice
Park City HR services offer the expertise needed to deal with your most important assets, your employees. Whether you need retained HR services or ad-hoc support, trust our expert team of consultants to take care of everything for you – over the phone, via email, or face-to-face. When you choose Park City, it’s like having an in-house HR team – without the cost or complexity.
Is your business fully compliant with current employment legislation? Park City’s employment law advisors will conduct a thorough review of your current situation. Our employment law advisors will detail in a report your current level of compliance, highlight any possible risks and give you practical advice on how to get back on track. You get reassurance and peace of mind, without losing considerable amounts of time and money.
Do you find yourself getting bogged down by mundane yet crucial HR documents and processes so much so it’s affecting the growth of the business? Did you know paper-based employee files are not GDPR compliant? Are you using spreadsheets to manage sicknesses and holidays? HR Software can streamline and automate essential HR processes, freeing you up a time to focus on your business again. Park City Consulting is proud platinum partner with Breathe, for more information click here.
An employee’s experience within your business during their first few weeks can set the tone of their performance for years to come. If your induction and onboarding are not well delivered, problems later with employees are a common issue employers must deal with.
We can help to ensure this does not happen to your business if you allow Park City’s expert consultants to produce an induction and onboarding process for all recruits. Your Human Resources Consultant will review and produce an Induction Procedure for all new employees to complete, ensuring they become productive as quickly as possible.
The principal purpose of recruitment is to attract sufficient and suitable applicants for vacancies. Comparatively, the key purpose of selection is to shortlist and select the right person for the advertised position. Let Park City’s HR Business Partners recruit for you so you can focus on your business.
Our expert HR team will prepare all the documentation you need to enable your managers to undertake effective recruitment activities, in line with employment law and best practices. Once this recruitment pack has been assembled, your business can adapt these recruitment policies and procedures for any vacancy that may arise.
Park City’s expert HR Business Partners are some of the best in the business and can take care of recruitment for you. From the identification and advertising of the vacancy to the interviewing and selection of suitable candidates for your final selection, our expertise can help deliver the right people for your business needs.
You can rest assured that whatever your business, and whatever requirements you have, we will find the right people with the passion and skills to take your business forward.
Follow the correct redundancy process to ensure you are adhering to the latest employment law. With our support, you’ll get things right, and avoid disruption to staff morale, financial penalties and damage to your business reputation.
Doing things right from the start means avoiding financial penalties from employment tribunal claims, unnecessary delays to your plans and the increased management time required to manage appeals. Park City can provide all the necessary support and advice needed to ensure that you follow the latest guidance and legislative requirements through the whole redundancy process.
For many business owners and managers, the redundancy process is the most challenging decision-making process and the most demanding experience you will ever have at work. Lean on us for support when making these difficult decisions.
Are you looking for fundamental changes within your company, reorganising the structure to reduce cost or changing roles and responsibilities to improve performance? Most company restructurings take place after a merger or acquisition.
Park City can provide services in the following areas:
- Review your organisational structure and help you make the changes
- Downsizing
- Removal of a team or department
- TUPE Consultations
- Collective consultations and individual consultations
- Redundancy Policy, Procedure and Strategy for Implementation
- Redundancy Selection Criteria
- Redundancy Selection Process
- Project Correspondence and Documentation
- Statutory Redundancy Packages
Appeals Process
We have worked with Park City for our HR and Health and Safety support for many years now and have always received an excellent service.Carley is our Consultant and she is always so helpful, as are... her colleagues when she is unavailable.I would highly recommend Park City.read more
Park City have worked with us for many years, advising and guiding us regarding HR and Health & Safety, along with supplying valuable training.We work with many people in several areas of expertise,... Sara Godfrey, Jennie Galione, Ashley Williams, Sam Parcell, Stephanie Devans, Poppy Hayhoe.They build confidence within our company and are always available with support and advice.They provide a consistent, professional, hands-on service, second to none!Thank you from DH Industries Limited.read more
The team at Park City offer us the right level of service needed to confidently run a small business. They keep us up to date with UK policy HR requirements, help us manage any staff changes or... issues and policy documents. The team are informed, friendly and remain professional in my experience.read more
The DS Group have been working with Park City now for a number of years and we have found their HR services to be invaluable. The service received is always to the highest professional standards and... they have assisted our business in becoming more efficient and effective in all HR matters.My consultant Sam Parcell is always on hand to help answering any questions quickly and professionally and she offers vital guidance, advice and support to us.We as a company will continue to use Park City’s services for many years to come and we cannot recommend them enough!Tracy Norton-Mead, Operations Director at the DS Group.read more
We have worked with Park City for almost 10 years and have built up a great professional relationship over the years. The team are so friendly and helpful, and nothing is ever too much of an ask for... any of them. Our main HR contact is Carley, who is lovely, and she is very prompt in dealing with any queries we have regarding our 100+ staff. We would highly recommend their services for any local business.read more
A Proven Platform That Will Transform Your Business
A thriving business depends on a workplace environment filled with engaged employees – a positive working environment where people want to work. To improve engagement, you must first uncover the truth.
We’ve partnered with Engagement Multiplier to give our clients a great tool for discovering if your employees feel engaged and how to make improvements. As an HR company, we’ll support you with using the tool and getting the most from it, so you can truly make a positive impact. We will work with you, step-by-step, with the goal of helping everyone feel great at work every day.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Here at Park City Consulting, we offer a completely bespoke service, creating packages suitable for your business needs. Whether you are looking for one-off support from our HR advisors about a disciplinary hearing, or you would like to outsource the whole of your Human Resources function. Our team will act as an extension to your business, working collaboratively to transform your organisation.
Business restructuring can be extremely stressful, especially if you are not experienced in these processes or where to begin. Outsourcing this to a trusted HR team will ensure your business is doing everything in its power to enable the business restructuring to run smoothly. Not only will Park City Consulting provide your business with expertise in business restructuring, but this service will be highly cost-effective for your business, ultimately leading to a high return on investment.
Typically, most businesses will find themselves restructuring after a time of financial difficulty, a merger or acquisition. During this time of prosperity, it gives you time to reflect on your business. Park City Consulting will help you evaluate what is working well for your business and where you are losing profit, ultimately exposing the business to financial risk. Acting as your trusted business partner, you will be working with an experienced HR Business Partner who will be supporting you throughout the entire business restructuring process.
Your dedicated HR consultant will be offering you continual support throughout the grievance investigation. Below is listed the support you will be provided with:
- Review grievance documentation
- Plan and structure suitable and appropriate investigation
- Draft suitable investigation questions
- Conduct investigation meetings with the relevant staff
- Preparation for Chairing the Grievance Hearing
- Chair the Grievance Hearing meeting with the client
- Produce meeting notes, review evidence and report
- Further investigation meetings/requests for information – as needed
- Produce a report summarising findings and suggesting further action.
- Produce related correspondence as required
- Following the hearing, a report will be produced by the Chairperson and issued to the Client for the Client to make the decision on the outcome.
Once all of the above has been undertaken, a report will be produced with the findings and outcome of the investigation.
- Establish and communicate the company’s purpose, mission, vision, values and behaviours
- Introduce and maintain the company culture
- Communicate your expectations to the employees
- Demonstrate your company benefits
- Set leadership standards
This is a great opportunity for you to discover how your employees truly feel at work. With an anonymous staff survey you will receive honest and constructive feedback that will shape the direction and decisions of the business moving forward. Learn what your employees really think about your organisation, and deal with issues that otherwise get in the way of business with engagement multiplier.