Welcome to Suitable HR
Suitable HR is a Human Resources Consultancy based in Tunbridge Wells and provides a professional and personal HR service to small and medium sized businesses. We offer hands-on operational HR support tailored to meet the needs of our clients. Our Human Resources service operates within Tunbridge Wells and the surrounding area.
We give employers down to earth HR advice based on current HR legislation and best practice. It's just sensible, effective HR support for growing businesses, without the need for any ongoing contracts or commitments.
We provide practical solutions to support you when recruiting staff, writing employment contracts or employee handbooks and establishing HR policies and procedures. We can also advise you on redundancy or restructuring procedures, maternity/paternity leave, flexible working requests, employee benefits schemes, statutory workplace pensions and resolving HR issues.
About Us
Suitable HR was founded by Nicola Souter, a highly experienced HR professional with over 15 years of experience within Human Resources. Nicola has a Masters in Personnel and Development and is CIPD (Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development) qualified.
Nicola started her HR career in 1997 and has worked within a range of sectors always in generalist HR roles. Her career in HR started at Harrods and after a few years she moved to the London Stock Exchange before becoming HR Manager at Fortis Bank, where she worked for 8 years. During her time in the City she has worked extensively on recruiting new employees, in the process working towards reducing recruitment spend by leveraging social media and industry wide contacts. Nicola has introduced graduate recruitment and training programmes and was heavily involved in the business restructure and TUPE transfer of employees from Fortis Bank to BNP Paribas.
More recently Suitable HR has been a consultant for technology firms and stockbrokers and asset managers, responsible for setting up HR departments and delivering a full HR service which included implementing policies and procedures, updating staff handbooks and employment contracts, and helping these companies prepare for auto-enrolment.
Our Services
Suitable HR offers a range of operational HR services and our aim is to provide quality HR advice that is clear and straightforward ensuring that you can get on with running your business in the knowledge that your employment practices are in safe hands.
The following links provide an overview of the services Suitable HR can offer your business.
- Operational HR Services
- Recruitment and Selection
Contracts
Straightforward employment contracts of all types from scratch. Alternatively we can review and revise what is currently in place ensuring that they are legally compliant.
Handbooks
We can create and deliver a compliant employee handbook that reflects your business values and ethos and is practical and user friendly or we can work on an existing handbook to ensure that it is up to date and fully compliant.
Employee Administration
We can audit your current HR practices against UK employment statutory obligations, checking you are compliant. We can ensure your personnel files are up to date and can work with you to implement an online HR system for storing employee data or managing holidays and sickness absence.
Policies & Procedures
Policies and procedures always sounds less appealing but without these employment basics you can leave yourself open to a number of tricky employment situations due to a lack of clarity around expected employee behaviours. We can review your existing policies or work with you to introduce new ones that are relevant to your business.
Employee Relations
We support you in all aspects of employee relations whether that is managing sickness absence, processing leavers, conducting exit interviews and providing feedback, managing maternity/paternity leave, dealing with flexible working requests or it could be an underperforming employee that you need advice on how to handle, or help with a disciplinary, dealing with a grievance or supporting you through a dismissal.
Redundancy
Unfortunately there are situations when a business has to make employees redundant. We guide you through the process ensuring you meet your statutory obligations and deal with this issue with a professional approach.
Reward
We can work with your payroll provider to communicate payroll changes thus ensure that your monthly payroll is dealt with efficiently and accurately. In addition if you need to benchmark employee salaries against the market we can do this for you.
Employee Benefits
Whatever your budget we can find ways to incentivise your team and roll these out in a way to suit your business.
The statutory requirement to offer a workplace pension may be just around the corner and this can appear daunting and time consuming, Suitable HR can work with you to roll-out a scheme that is compliant and works for you.
Great businesses are not just about great products or services, they're about employing great people and as such proper recruitment and selection is vital to any business. Suitable HR is not a recruitment agency, but we can provide you with a cost effective solution to finding great people with the right skills, knowledge and attitudes to work successfully and happily in your business without the need for recruitment agencies. If you need help with any of the following areas of recruitment Suitable HR would be happy to assist you:
Job Descriptions and Specifications
Before recruitment commences employers should define the role and the skills, experience and personal attributes of the person you want to employ. A well crafted job description provides an overview of the role and what is required to be successful in it and that is an invaluable tool for both employer and employee. Suitable HR will work with you to understand your business, its culture and requirements of the job and can draft these for you, creating a standard template for future vacancies.
Interview Scripts
Some clients like us to prepare interview scripts to use when interviewing whether that is face to face or telephone based interviewing. This ensures that questions are broadly the same for all candidates and allows you to evaluate candidates openly and fairly using one set criteria.
Job Advertisements
We can rework your job descriptions into a suitable format to use in job advertisements either in print or on internet job boards.
Candidate Search
Using current social media sites such as LinkedIN we can undertake a direct candidate search.
CV Screening
Some job adverts can generate a large number of applications and we can screen these for you and only send through to you those suited for the role.
First Round Interviews
We can go one step further and undertake the first round interviews on your behalf and send you a shortlist of candidates for second stage interview with the business.
Recruitment Administration
We can supply all recruitment administration :- offer letters, contracts, starter checklists, reference checks, induction plans and whatever else you need to support the recruitment and selection process.
Contact Us
To discuss how Suitable HR could assist your business please contact Nicola on:
e-mail: nicola@suitablehr.co.uk
phone: 07968085073