HR Support

It is important to have a clear HR strategy to support your business objectives.

With our HR strategy, we can support you to evaluate, structure and restructure your business, develop a change strategy and help you to manage this providing you with the means to measure and benchmark in different areas.

Developing clear roles and responsibilities is core to ensure everyone understands how they contribute to the business objectives.

A well defined plan to allow you to cascade objectives to the team and individuals is key to support you to build on developing employee communication and engagement.

It is an employer’s legal duty to provide all employees with a written statement of terms and conditions within two months of their start date. We can support you to produce robust variations of terms and conditions e.g. permanent and temporary contracts, Directors Service Level Agreements, non employee contractor agreements.

Up to date employment policies in line with current legislation are essential to allow you to manage your employee journey. We can support you to create, communicate and implement, update and maintain your employment policies in the form of an Employee Handbook.

A well planned clearly structured recruitment process is essential when recruiting for your organisation. This will allow you to monitor costs and to monitor the value of your recruitment process. We can support you to manage all elements of your recruitment process from the initial stages of carrying out job analysis and creating role specifications, to selection and decisi

We implement a robust process to ensure that all new employees have the right to work in the UK and can provide guidance on visa applications and other special arrangements that new recruits may have.

Once selected, we can support you to administer the new starts by producing a comprehensive offer letter and contractual terms. When your new recruits have started we can help you to manage and retain your new recruits and current employees. The reward benchmarking process is one way we can support you to do this.

A well structured induction program is vital to integrating new employees into your business smoothly and effectively. This is to ensure that your new starts have access to all the information required to settle into the team.

We can provide advice, structure and administer your induction program to ensure that your new starts fully understand their contractual obligations, company working practices and in turn company expectations.

Development planning and succession planning are important for continual growth and development of the business. We can support you in this process providing coaching and mentoring where relevant.

Poor employee attendance as a result of sickness can be extremely costly to an organisation and it is important to manage this before it potentially escalates into a larger problem.

We can provide you the guidance and tools to allow you to manage employee sickness effectively and other reasons for employee absence including the management of maternity and paternity leave and holiday management.

A robust set of employment policies assist’s in the effective management of employment issues which could have a costly detrimental effect on your business. We can support you in the management of Disciplinary and grievance cases providing guidance and access to mediation and dispute resolution, management of redundancy and other employee issues that require sensitivity and application of employment legislation.

To get the most out of your employees and to enhance employee engagement it is important to have a clearly structured performance management process in place. This will allow you to develop performance within the company to achieve your business objectives, mange poor performers and focus on the longer term goals of your organisation.

Different elements make up your performance management process and we can support you to implement all elements of this process:

• Probationary Review Process – Early stages of the employee journey
• Annual/Quarterly Appraisal – meeting and setting employee objectives
• Management of Poor Performers
• Succession Planning

Nucleus Financial

"We have been working with Gravitate HR since November 2009 and the service we have received has been excellent. Our account manager Becky and the rest of the team at Gravitate are all professional, extremely knowledgeable and experienced and at all times will go out of their way when supporting us with our HR requirements. Following the very detailed HR Healthcheck that they carried out initially, the service supplied by Gravitate has been fast, effective and competitive."

Rebecca Christensen
Communications Director, Nucleus Financial