HR and Recruitment experts based on the Oxfordshire/Berkshire Border.

Providing HR advice and support as an extension to your management team, ensuring legal compliance and best practice.

Ask Yourself These Questions

  • Do you have recurring and often painful situations with staff?
  • Do you worry about HR compliance with the latest legal obligations?
  • Do you struggle with finding time to manage your HR issues?
  • Do you want to motivate, set targets for, and engage your employees – probably your most expensive and valuable assets?
  • Do you want to be seen as the employer of choice in an increasingly competitive marketplace?
  • Do you worry about legal compliance in relation to HR documentation, policies, procedures and processes?

Did You Answer ‘Yes’?

If you answered ‘yes’ to any of these questions, you’re in the right place. At HRCentral, we specialise in helping business owners make the most of their valuable time and employee resources by taking the strain of dealing with all their strategic and operational HR issues.

Our team of HR professionals are on hand to help you navigate the minefield of employment law. We will guide you through the HR lifecycle.

We have vast experience of setting up new, or auditing existing, HR departments. We also offer conflict resolution solutions and bespoke documents.

We love HR! And we are guessing that if you are searching for us, you probably need assistance. Let us take the strain! Our aim is to save you time and ensure a seamless, legally compliant service. Rest assured that we will help you resolve your immediate HR issues, and if you need us to, we can help with the day to day running of your HR function going forwards.

Talk To HRCentral Today

At HRCentral, we are firm believers in the personal approach. When working with us, you will always speak to a real person who will make it their mission to get to know your company inside and out. With over 25 years of experience in Human Resources, we will guide you through any issues you may have, or develop processes to reduce the risks. Our aim is to become an extension of your management team.

We also believe in dealing with tried and tested experts, which is why we work with a wide variety of professionals such as Employment Lawyers, Occupational Health providers, Health and Safety consultancies, and Recruitment Agent partners, all who share our standards and values. Managed by us, we will collectively advise you on the best way to ensure HR compliance, now and in the future.

If you would like to find out more, please call us for a chat and tell us your HR issue.

We’d be happy to help.

Our Guarantee To You

  • You will deal with a real person
  • They will personally get to know your company
  • The service will be flexible and tailored to your company
  • The service will be professional, honest and reliable
  • We will get you the best outcome for any HR situation that may arise

Examples of Our Work

Here are some recent examples of the work we have successfully completed for our SME clients.

HR AUDIT & LEGAL COMPLIANCE

HRCentral specialises in auditing businesses, highlighting the improvements required to reach best practice standards and legal compliance. Our HR audit service allows businesses to pragmatically remediate and prioritise the issues to be addressed.

We will address concerns like:

  • Am I compliant with the current Pensions legislation?
  • How does GDPR impact my business?
  • Is my appraisal system adequate?
  • Why am I having problems with absenteeism?

RECRUITMENT

HRCentral will manage the process of recruiting new staff, streamlining and automating the process through our applicant tracking system. Unlike specialist agents, we can work on a variety of roles from any business sector. Through our established network and with our extensive knowledge of resourcing we will fill vacancies with the right person for your company’s needs.

We will address concerns like:

  • How do I maintain GDPR compliance within the recruitment process?
  • How much will it cost to hire someone?
  • How should we carry out the interview process?
  • Can you help us with a list of behavioural interviewing questions?

BESPOKE HR DOCUMENTATION

HRCentral will work with you to ensure your business has the correct HR procedures documented, articulating ‘how things are done here’. Through thorough documentation of the appropriate HR policies, HRCentral can enable your business to guide its staff on the correct way to operate and perform.

We will address concerns like:

  • Why don’t all my staff follow the correct procedures?
  • Do I have a clause in the contract to protect me against that?
  • How do we show the staff what is expected?

PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

HRCentral is experienced in the design, development and implementation of performance management systems. We can help you unlock and recalibrate the performance of your staff, wherever they are on the performance scale. We will work with you to create tailored appraisal systems, design your succession planning, and help to get the best from your staff.

We will address concerns like:

  • How can I set effective staff targets?
  • How can we improve the productivity of underperforming staff?
  • Who should be next in line for that role?

CONFLICT RESOLUTION

Conflict within a company’s workforce happens from time to time. HRCentral will step into these areas of conflict to help resolve the issues as quickly as possible, and with the minimum amount of fuss. Ignoring HR conflicts within a business will lead to larger problems and more conflict. This can be the most distracting and time-consuming part of managing staff.

We will address concerns like:

  • How should I handle a grievance from a member of staff?
  • What is the correct way to make redundancies?
  • How should I discipline a member of staff?

CHANGE MANAGEMENT

At HRCentral, we understand that companies experience periods of change, growth or contraction, acquisition or merger. We have a great deal of experience in assisting businesses to manage the required process for the change in staffing profile. HRCentral will guide you through the process of growth, downsizing, and change of core business emphasis, often so time-consuming and fraught with pitfalls.

We will address concerns like:

  • What are my TUPE responsibilities?
  • If we relocate the office, what are my responsibilities to the staff?
  • How do I get the staff to buy into the changes in company structure?
  • How can we retain our best staff, even though we’re making redundancies?

Offering bespoke HR solutions and pragmatic advice since 2006

We get to know your business requirements and goals. We work with high-level decision makers and business owners as their sounding board.

Top Lawyers

We have access to experienced employment law partners in the Thames Valley area, along with their team of experts, and will liaise with them on your behalf when necessary.

Flexible Charging

We are flexible and transparent with our billing, preferring to invoice hourly on a ‘pay for what you use’ basis.

Small one off projects

Happy to help when needed – think of us as your remote HR Manager available for advice or to attend your offices as required. We are happy to work alongside and supplement your HR function. You choose.

CIPD qualified

Our consultants are all CIPD qualified, giving you that much needed assurance.

Out of hours

We are happy to discuss issues outside of normal working hours; we understand that you cannot always discuss sensitive HR issues during your operational working day.

Specialise in working with SME

But this doesn’t mean that we only have experience of SMEs. Our consultants have vast and varied HR knowledge gained from working in large corporate organisations in a variety of sectors. We are a good fit for organisations of all shapes and sizes.

Top Lawyers

We have access to experienced employment law partners in the Thames Valley area, along with their team of experts, and will liaise with them on your behalf when necessary.

Flexible Charging

We are flexible and transparent with our billing, preferring to invoice hourly on a ‘pay for what you use’ basis.

Small one off projects

Happy to help when needed – think of us as your remote HR Manager available for advice or to attend your offices as required. We are happy to work alongside and supplement your HR function. You choose.

CIPD qualified

Our consultants are all CIPD qualified, giving you that much needed assurance.

Out of hours

We are happy to discuss issues outside of normal working hours; we understand that you cannot always discuss sensitive HR issues during your operational working day.

Specialise in working with SME

But this doesn’t mean that we only have experience of SMEs. Our consultants have vast and varied HR knowledge gained from working in large corporate organisations in a variety of sectors. We are a good fit for organisations of all shapes and sizes.

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Testimonials

"Rebecca has been giving ZapGo outstanding HR support and guidance for two years now. We are a very fast growing, entrepreneurial business, and as well as needing solid HR practice are very focused on building the team around core values and best practice. In this respect Rebecca is in a class of her own and she has been truly inspirational. She is a clear thinker and has been a most effective mentor to me personally, and to our very busy team. She is also possessed of a wicked sense of humour and is simply a great person to work with."
David McTurk - ZapGo Limited COO
"I highly recommend HRCentral. Rebecca did some stunning work for us, change management, consultation, employee relations, terms and condition changes and handling some very difficult situations."
Sandra BassHuman Resources, Compensation & Benefits
"Recently Rebecca has spent a lot of time with me implementing the necessary work to help our company to be compliant with the GDPR along with new contracts for staff and company policies. She offers an excellent service and always has the time to run through any questions or queries I have had while making all the work easy to understand. I would highly recommend Rebecca for any HR related work."
Martyn Smith Director
"Rebecca combines the dark art of HR and Business thinking with consummate ease, she always put the business needs first, combining any message to the team with equal doses of motivation, care and severity. Great person to do with business with, I highly recommend her to anyone that needs a helping hand through the mine infested swamp that is HR law."
Marcus Harris Incite Insight - Helping organisations solve people problems in technology
"Rebecca’s HR and business knowledge is first class. Her major strength is to identify the issues at hand quickly, apply excellent solutions and always to apply the pragmatism one needs at the time in a very cost effective way. She is able to think 'outside of the box'. Rebecca did all these things for me recently with a sensitive recruitment process. Without hesitation I can recommend her to anyone needing practical and effective HR support."
Alun Thomas HR Manager
"Since originally working with Rebecca in a client capacity on a recruitment project in early 2013, we developed an excellent working relationship which has since grown into a Business Partnership where we now use Rebecca's services as a HR Consultant / Advisor to our company. Rebecca is an exceptional HR Consultant, who has restructured our own internal recruitment & HR procedures for new and existing employees. I can highly recommend Rebecca's services to any potential companies or organisations who require the services of a HR Consultant."
Gary King - Collins King & AssociatesDirector
"Rebecca is a first class HR professional with wide ranging expertise and experience in this field. She can handle the most difficult of situations whilst still delivering excellent customer service as evidenced by glowing testimonials we have received from them."
Graham Coleshill Client relationship Manager Clarkslegal LLP
"I cannot recommend Rebecca highly enough. We are a creative agency which means our employee profile is very varied, Rebecca has the ability to understand our people, understand issues and solve problems. We tend not to have serious escalation as she diffuses them before they grow."
Duncan Gardner Partner Avvio
"Navigated me through a dismissal process through extensive knowledge of the relevant legislation and guiding me through the appropriate measures to take at every step. Refined, organised and completed our company policy documents Moved our HR systems from paper to on-line, massively streamlining day to day HR administration. Handles recruitment skill-fully, negotiating effectively with recruitment companies, developing job specifications and screening CVs. Is active throughout the interview process, assessing candidates' behavioural traits and cultural compatibility with the company. Rebecca's positive, nurturing and open approach to conflict management has successfully defused a couple of workplace altercations. Rebecca's contribution has made the lives of everyone at emapsite better and has made emapsite a better company to work for. Emapsite is a better company as a result of her efforts. "
John BrettService Delivery Director, emapsite ltd.
"I’ve worked with Rebecca since 2010 and she continues to be a hugely positive and supportive force for me, in the challenging world of hospitality HR. Rebecca understands our business model and culture very well and is always happy to pick up the phone to share her knowledge and experience. I’m also impressed with the ATS recruitment portal that she set up for us – it makes a real difference. Rebecca and her team are professionals and a pleasure to work with."
Michal Wawrzenczyk General Manager at The Swan at Streatley

Our Clients

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Emapsite
Albertfields
Berkeley
Coombe-House
RareBird
Hubba
Consort
Puraffinity
Cifa
Quantum
Harbor
Cocoon-Hair-and-Beauty
EUSA-Pharma
Blue-Peak
Kitchen-and-Bar-Chelmsford
Pierreponts
Planet
Thames-Rib-Boat-Experience
Nibsys
Bananasplit
Zuant
West-Mercia
Bodyset
First-Natural
BA
Formula

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