The purpose of the role is to understand the organisation’s strategy and goals, the organisational culture, and the employee perspective in order to develop people practices that help achieve business objectives and enable employees to achieve their potential. Specifically through:- Working with the Top Team to help build organisational and people capabilities - Designing people policies and processes that closely supports the company’s strategy and goals- Working collaboratively with the leadership team to manage the implementation of people initiatives- Building open and collaborative relationships with individuals and between teams across the company.

Responsibilities are varied and involve strategic input, generalist HR and require a flexible, pragmatic approach.• Working as part of the senior management team providing HR input to broader business decisions such as company vision and focus, organisation design, team budgets, PR and local community involvement• Establishing and managing recruitment processes for all roles from agreeing need with the team, designing job and person specifications, sourcing candidates, designing and managing the interview process, handling offers and inductions • Working with coaches and teams to develop skills, provide feedback and support and ensure individual growth and development opportunities using a variety of approaches such as coaching resources and workshops, design of a badge system and stretch objectives• Designing and updating personnel policies, systems and records to ensure that legal requirements are met and issues such as absence are effectively monitored• Identifying, and acting upon, employee relations issues such as performance, disciplinary and grievances, retention and engagement.• Setting up employee communication processes such as Quarterly Business Review presentations and staff surveys on a variety of topics• Managing pay and benefits processes including the administration of the auto-enrolment pension scheme, regular salary benchmarking to ensure pay is in line with local market, advising on and implementing bonus schemes.

Freelance HR consultancy specialising in assessment, development and recruitment projects.

Persona was a management development consultancy offering services in OD, assessment, development, resourcing, training and performance management. My responsibilities included-business planning, profit and loss responsibility-account management covering new business development-client briefing and proposal writing-project design and delivery, large project management-staff management and communication.