Some of our Essex and South East based clients
We offer different ways to work with us, including:
Retained HR Services
HR
On Demand
Outsourced People Team
Support for inhouse HR teams
HR Consultants in Essex
Our Essex-based People Business Partners and People Specialists provide HR consultancy and support to organisations across Essex and the wider South East.
Some clients use us as their outsourced HR team. Others already have HR or People expertise in-house and bring us in when they need additional capacity, specialist knowledge or support with a particular project.
Whatever brings you to Fitzgerald, we’ll take the time to understand your organisation, what’s happening and what you’re trying to achieve. Then we’ll help you work out what to do next – and, importantly, help you get it done.
HR support for businesses across Essex
Our Essex-based team members support organisations from Buckhurst Hill to Harwich, and across the wider South East. We work remotely, visit clients on-site and can arrange meetings at our Brentwood office, whatever works best for you.
And you’re not limited to the expertise of one HR consultant. Our wider Fitzgerald team includes People Business Partners and specialists across Employee Relations, Learning and Development, Organisational Development, Talent, Reward and People Technology, so we can bring in the right expertise when you need it.
How we can help
Our HR consultancy services cover everything from everyday people challenges to larger, more complex projects.
Outsourced HR support
If you don’t have your own HR team, we can provide ongoing retained HR support, becoming an extension of your business and giving you access to experienced people support when you need it.
If you already have your own HR or People team, we can work as an extension of that team too – providing extra capacity during busy periods or bringing in specialist skills and expertise when you need them.
Whether we’re your outsourced HR team or working alongside your existing one, we can help with the everyday questions that come with employing people, as well as the more difficult situations where you need experienced advice and a clear way forward.
Employee relations
People issues aren’t always straightforward.
Our Employee Relations specialists can advise on, or lead, complex employee relations matters including disciplinary and grievance issues, absence, performance, capability and other difficult workplace situations.
We’ll help you understand your options, manage risk and find a practical way forward.
Leadership, management and learning
Great managers make an enormous difference to the experience people have at work. We design and deliver practical learning and development programmes, management development and executive coaching to help leaders and managers build their confidence and capability. This can range from individual workshops through to bespoke development programmes designed around the needs of your organisation.
Organisational change and restructuring
When your business changes, your people arrangements often need to change with it. We support organisations through restructuring, organisational design and wider business change, including managing restructuring and redundancy processes and collective and individual employee consultation. We can advise from the outset, help you think through the people implications and then provide hands-on support through the process.
Recruitment and talent
Finding good people is difficult. Keeping and developing them matters just as much. We can help you think strategically about the people your organisation needs, design roles, improve your recruitment approach and put better talent and development practices in place. Whether you’re making a handful of important hires or thinking about the skills and capability your organisation will need in the future, we can help you build an approach that fits your business.
Pay, reward and performance
Pay and benefits are important, but reward is about more than deciding what salary to offer. We help businesses develop pay, benefits and reward approaches that are fair, sustainable and appropriate for their organisation. We can also help with performance frameworks, recognition and the wider question of how you encourage, recognise and reward great work.
Contracts, handbooks and HR foundations
As your business grows, it’s important that your employment documentation keeps up. We can draft or review your contracts of employment, employee handbooks, policies and procedures, making sure they’re legally sound, practical and appropriate for the way you want to run your organisation. We can also help businesses putting their HR foundations in place for the first time.
HR systems and people technology
The right technology can take a surprising amount of administration out of managing people – but only if the system and processes behind it work properly. Our People Technology expertise can help you select, implement or improve HR systems, review your existing processes and make better use of the technology you already have.
When might you need an HR consultant?
You don’t have to wait until something goes wrong to ask for HR support. Businesses across Essex and the South East come to us for all sorts of reasons. You might be growing quickly and finding that the way you’ve always managed people isn’t keeping up. Perhaps your managers need more support, your HR team is stretched or an employee issue has become more complicated than expected.
You might be restructuring, introducing a new HR system, reviewing pay and benefits or trying to improve the way you recruit and retain people.
Or you might simply want an experienced second opinion before making an important people decision.
Whatever the reason, you don’t need to have the answer before you call us. Part of our job is helping you work out what you actually need.
More than one HR consultant
When businesses search for an HR consultant in Essex, they’re often looking for someone they can trust to understand their business and give them good advice.
We think that relationship matters enormously. But we also know that no single person can be an expert in every area of HR and People.
With Fitzgerald, you have a People Business Partner who gets to know your organisation, backed by a wider team with specialist expertise in Employee Relations, Business Change, Learning and Development, Organisational Development, Talent, Reward and People Technology.
It means we can bring the right person into the conversation when you need them, while still giving you the continuity and personal relationship that matters.
