If you run a small business, you may be unable to budget for an HR professional within your team, so have you considered what it is to outsource HR? Once you’ve found a template contract and worked out how to run payroll you may feel you have the essentials covered, however there is far more to consider. Outsourcing your HR will enable you to call on professional resource to support you with:

  • Recruitment advice and guidance (selection processes including psychometric testing)
  • Planning induction and on-boarding
  • Managing probation effectively
  • Appraisal and performance management
  • Reward and benefits
  • Flexible working and parental leave (maternity, paternity, shared etc.)
  • Managing absence and ill-health within the workplace
  • Employee handbooks setting out statutory HR policy and procedure

HR Framework

An effective HR framework that covers the above areas (and more) will help you focus on getting the best from your staff, aiding the professional development within your company from beginning to end. Furthermore, this focus will also help prevent staff issues arising – and aid their resolution when things don’t quite work out as you’d hoped with either an employee or your business.

Outsource HR for peace of mind

And when issues do inevitably arise, if you outsource HR, the hands-on support from an outside partner who knows your business and the personalities within your team can be hugely important. Someone who will be beside you in the difficult meetings and guide you from end to end with a grievance, disciplinary or redundancy exercise. You may not need someone embedded full-time but you need someone you can call upon to provide expert support on specific concerns. To alleviate the pressure where necessary and allow you to concentrate on achieving your organisational goals.

Farringford Legal offers a comprehensive outsourced HR service, from light touch advice and contract drafting, to getting stuck in to succession planning and in-depth HR strategy.