Hassle Free HR Services from Offshoots:

Employment Law

New legislation is regularly being introduced and updated and the consequences of not complying with employment law can result in extensive costs to a business – not only financially but also to reputation.

Offshoots provide advice and support on current and emerging legislation, for all employment matters including redundancy, disciplinary and grievance matters, family-related legislation, and all other areas of UK employment law.

HR Policies and Procedures

HR policies and procedures allow businesses the opportunity to offer a fair and consistent approach to managing staff and running a business. Some policies and procedures won't be relevant to all businesses but may promote good practice, whereas others are required by law.

It may be that your business does not have such policies and is looking to put these in place, or it could be that your procedures are the same as they were some 5 or more years ago. Employment law changes all the time and it could be that the current legislative regulations conflict with your current policy documents. Offshoots can help by providing up to date policy documentation, or by conducting a complete review of all your policies and procedures, handbook and contract to ensure they are compliant with current regulations, makes your staff aware of their own obligations and their rights, which in turn allows you to run and manage your business.

Recruitment and Selection

Successful recruitment depends on finding people with the necessary skills, expertise and qualifications to deliver organisational objectives, and who have the ability to make a positive contribution to the values and aims of the organisation.

Offshoots can carry out your recruitment in a systematic way, in accordance with employment legislation, by providing advice and support at every stage of the process. This includes preparing job descriptions and specifications, using the most appropriate method(s) for recruitment, making sure employees are authorised to work in the UK, reviewing applications and short-listing candidates, conducting filter interviews and taking up references.

Change Management

Change Management is a planned approach to transitioning individuals, teams, and organisations from a current state to a desired future state. This includes organisational processes and individual models, which together are used to manage the people side of change. The individual change management models include engaging senior management as the leaders of change, building awareness of the need for change through communication, developing skills and expertise to support the change through training, and helping employees to work their way through the transition through coaching by managers. It also requires measures to uphold the change using measurement systems, reward and continued reinforcement.

The individual change models include engaging senior management as the leaders and drivers of change, building awareness of the need for change through communication, developing skills and expertise through training, and helping employees to work their way through the transition. Offshoots also work with you to identify measures to uphold the transition through the application of measurement systems, reward and continued reinforcement.

Offshoots can help the business and the management team manage a post-merger, restructure or rationalisation and help to develop strategies to meet the challenges by providing facilitation, guidance, coaching, training and measurement systems.

Training and Development

Offshoots can assist you in developing a training policy which is appropriate to your organisation, providing support with the identification of training needs and the production of training plans.

Removing speculative training by introducing formal plans and programmes helps to ensure that a business has the right skills and contingencies in place at the right time, enabling staff to operate at higher levels and improving their resourcefulness and efficiencies. This can lead to improvements in an organisation’s productivity and competitiveness through a skilled a motivated workforce.

Working with a business partner, Offshoots can also provide you with short in house training courses designed to address specific training needs within your business.

Whilst traditional training will give staff new knowledge and competences, it doesn't necessarily develop their managerial and strategic skills. To encourage this we need to focus on the person. Providing Personal Development Plans (PDP's) will help your staff to consider their behaviour, knowledge and performance, and set their own personal goals and career development. PDP encompasses a range of methods of learning and the opportunity to review and evaluate throughout the process.

The programmes are based on personal support and coaching, rather than off-the-shelf packages, tailored to the individual and emphasising long-term career planning.

Compensation and Benefits

Offshoots are able to develop, implementing and administer reward and benefits policies and packages for your business. This includes salaries and bonuses, plus employee benefits such as pensions, healthcare and life assurance, car policies, relocation packages and so forth.

Outplacement Support

Offshoots have a well established outplacement service and have assisted many individuals with their transition into new roles. The outplacement programmes are based on coaching and personal support, assistance with writing or updating CVs as well as letters of application, and are tailored to the individual. Candidates benefit from having face to face meetings with an outplacement consultant, together with additional telephone and email support.

Telephone / Meeting Support

In response to requests from clients, Offshoots provides telephone support to assist with a diverse range of HR related matters. This includes assistance with managing performance, disciplinary issues, redundancy situations, absence management, and other general ad hoc HR support. The ad hoc support can also include attendance at internal meetings such as disciplinary or grievance hearings, at interviews, and acting as an independent arbitrator for grievances.

Our clients are as enthusiastic about Offshoots as we are about them, so you can be sure that we will always go that extra mile. We can assist you with projects where specialist outsourced expertise is required. Please contact us on 07825 563963 to discuss how we can assist you in providing any of the above services.