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Supporting businesses achieve success through their staff

Employees are the biggest asset of any business and the biggest cost.

Byrne Jones HR will help your business get the most from your greatest asset – your employees. We will alleviate the HR pressures faced by your business by providing a professional service tailored to suit you.

Byrne Jones HR is a flexible, commercially focused and a cost effective way to deliver your people strategy.

Our expertise and common sense approach will ensure your HR issues are handled sensitively and in a non-bureaucratic way.

We contacted Helen for assistance with our TUPE requirements. She played a crucial role in facilitating the transfers, demonstrating exceptional expertise throughout the entire process. I highly recommend her services especially for her utmost professionalism.
Sam Simpson FICB PM.Dip

Director

Approached Helen for advice relating to HR documents, turnaround on feedback and advice was immediate and we will be using her services again. Very personable and helpful.
Owen Smith

Director, Association of Learning

Helen O' Byrne Founder and CEO of Byrne Jones HR

Helen O'Byrne - CEO and Founder

Fully Qualified Chartered FCIPD Consultant.

I am a qualified HR professional and Fellow Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and am a highly experienced HR professional with over 30 years experience of HR gained in a variety of sectors including education, private, public and the third sector.

Having worked at a senior level I have a wide portfolio of skills and generalist HR experience to draw on including; designing and implementing HR policies and procedures, recruitment and selection, compensation and benefits, employee relations, change and restructuring, disciplinary and grievance matters and training.

I have successfully managed HR and training teams, am familiar with the strategic and operational issues which face organisations and how people management strategies and practices impact on these.

I ensure all aspects of your HR requirements can be met by working with other associates and professionals with specialist expertise, as and when required.

Services

Byrne Jones HR consultancy brings a valuable independent external perspective to address client’s specific HR needs by using our technical and commercial expertise to develop practical, cost-effective and professional HR solutions that help organisations to develop.

We provide professionally qualified expert HR support and advice on all HR issues as and when you require it. We work with clients on either a retained or a project basis providing outsourced HR support, HR consultancy, project management and HR documentation.

We recognise that each organisation is unique and focus on understanding your business to provide clear HR advice, support and guidance specifically tailored to your needs. Regular face-to-face meetings help ensure we work in partnership with you and provide practical solutions that truly support your business.

Our HR expertise helps you comply with employment legislation, solve employment problems and removes the worry of HR issues.

HR Documentation

Byrne Jones HR can supply you with the right documentation to ensure your business operates within legal boundaries and best practice. Some of the areas include:

Employment Contracts

Staff Handbooks

HR policies and procedures including:

  • Confidentiality & Business Protection
  • Data Protection
  • Disciplinary & Grievance
  • Email, Internet and Telephone
  • Equal Opportunities
  • Maternity and Paternity
  • Recruitment and Selection
  • Redundancy
  • Relocation
  • Sickness and Absence

HR Project Management

Byrne Jones HR provides project management in a variety of areas including:

Business Restructuring including Redundancies

Working with you to establish your staff requirements for the future to ensure your business structure gets the best from your staff.

Recruitment and Selection

A complete recruitment and selection service including design of recruitment campaigns, selection procedures, support with interviews and assessment centres.

Performance Management

Creation of bespoke performance management schemes to meet business aims and objectives.  Delivering training in performance management schemes to managers and creating a communication strategy to staff.

Outsourced HR Support

Byrne Jones HR provides clients with HR consultancy services to address specific HR needs and outsourced HR project support. Used by clients of all sizes when they require HR help and an external independent perspective, lack in-house expertise or need additional resources to undertake a particular HR project; we draw on our considerable HR and business experience to provide an effective solution.

Typical consultancy assignments include:

  • Project management
  • Disciplinary and grievances, including investigations or hearing and appeals panels
  • TUPEs, both in and out
  • Managing recruitment and retention
  • Restructuring, redundancy and change management
  • Advising on complex people issues which are restricting organisational growth
  • Analysing and improving staff turnover, absence and sickness
  • Design and implementation of performance management systems to support business objectives
  • Implementing strategies to improve employment relationships
  • Ensuring HR policies and procedures support business strategy
  • Developing HR strategy to support business objectives
  • Equal opportunities and diversity
  • Workplace mediation
  • Employee surveys
  • Induction
  • Counselling/coaching
  • Training and development in a variety of HR disciplines.  We can deliver HR training tailored to suit your business needs.

Testimonials

Helen was an amazing support for us as we recently went through the process of recruiting our first employee. From interview advice to supplying our company handbook and contract, Helen was on hand at every step.

Both ourselves and our new employee feel confident and happy in our working agreement, which has all been handled very professionally. I would not hesitate to recommend Helen, she has been fantastic for us at a time of big change in the business which could very easily have caused us a lot of stress.

Kate Curry

Director, Cudos Creative

I would recommend Helen O’Byrne as she has proved her knowledge and expertise in the field of HR to be a vital resource, which I found to be invaluable when managing an establishment of over fifty staff in my last organisation.

Over a period of three years working with Helen I required advice and guidance dealing with complex and often difficult situations ranging from restructures to performance management of staff. Her knowledge, expertise, advice and guidance ensured I was in a position to confidently make difficult informed decisions.

Helen’s advice and guidance in supporting my direct reports (middle managers) performance manger their staff has proved time and time again to be a real asset.

John Devine

Founder, Alexander Devine Children's Hospice Service

I worked with Helen for a number of years in the Further Education sector. During that time I found her to be a highly competent H/R professional and also an approachable one.

She gave excellent advice, support and service to both management and employee, even if it was not what they wanted to hear because she was forthright and fair when doing so. I had no hesitation recommending Helen to two organisations that are planning to merge and wanted an independent H/R professional to help then with the appointments process for the new senior leadership team. Helen knows her stuff.

Everton Burke OBE DL FCFE

Vice Chair, Corporation at Burton and South Derbyshire College