West HR help SME employers with anything to do with employment. There’s a huge employment law framework in place & it’s not realistic to expect business owners & managers to know all of this, so we provide that expertise. The whole need for employees brings challenges to employers. There’s the legal framework alongside meeting the varying needs of people to run an effective & efficient business. Employees will inevitably have things in their lives at some point that can impact their performance. All people are different & 2 situations are rarely the same. A line manager has to deal with difficult employee situations on an ad hoc basis whereas we deal with a wide variety situations on an ongoing basis & have many, many years of experience. We are able to apply our experience & judgement to help employers manage these tricky scenarios. Our experience informs the advice, assistance & training we deliver: • Advice for the day to way guidance on people management • Assistance for particular issues recruitment, disciplinary, redundancy • Training to enable managers to recognise & manage key issues & know when to escalate them Using a HR consultant is a cost effective way of buying in HR knowledge & skills for small to medium sized businesses where an in-house resource would prove too expensive. Clients use us only when they need us rather than having an under-utilised senior HR practitioner or a more junior HR administrator out of their depth. With our help we can minimise employee distraction, management time, lost productivity & additional costs. • FREE advice via ‘Ask Us’ on westhr.co.uk • Tailored letters, scripts & other documentation. No templates! • We teach as we go enabling you to confidently handle future situations • Sensible fixed costs clearly set out on our website - no surprises