Outsourced HR support across Bournemouth
Our team works with employers across Bournemouth and the wider Dorset coast, providing experienced HR support when and where it is needed. We work with organisations across the area remotely, on site and through pre-arranged meetings at locations across the county.
Sometimes that means becoming your outsourced people team. Sometimes it means adding extra expertise or capacity to an existing HR team. And sometimes you simply need someone experienced to help you work through a difficult people issue or a period of change.
Whatever brings us in, we’re practical. We’ll get to know your business, understand what you’re trying to achieve and give you advice you can actually use.
We offer different ways to work with us, including:
Retained HR Services
HR
On Demand
Outsourced People Team
Support for inhouse HR teams
Sector experience behind your Bournemouth team
Bournemouth runs on financial and professional services, on hospitality and tourism along the coast, and on a care sector shaped by one of the older populations in the country. We support organisations with exactly these challenges. In hospitality and consumer that includes Compass Box Whisky. In professional and financial services, BNF Capital. In wholesale and distribution, Philip Dennis Foodservice. Read how we supported Compass Box Whisky as a full HR partner.
How we can help
Our team supports businesses with everything from day-to-day HR challenges to bigger people and organisational projects, including:
- Outsourced HR support and people partnering
- Employee relations and complex people issues
- Leadership and management development
- Organisational design and change
- Recruitment and talent planning
- Pay, reward and performance
- HR systems and technology
You’ll have experienced people around the table when you need them, but we’re just as happy rolling our sleeves up and getting things done.
How support changes as you grow
As businesses grow, their people needs change. What worked with 20 employees often doesn’t work with 50 or 100.
We help you work out what you need now, what can wait and what will make the biggest difference. That might mean putting better foundations in place, helping managers become more confident, improving the way you recruit and retain people, or giving your existing HR team access to specialist expertise they don’t have in-house.
The aim isn’t to make HR more complicated. It’s to make managing people easier and help you build a business where good people want to work and stay.
Your Bournemouth contact
Bournemouth is covered by our South West based team. You speak to a named consultant, backed by a team of more than thirty specialists covering employment law, employee relations, talent and reward. Meet the team.
Why employers in Bournemouth come to us
Bournemouth carries an unusual mix for a town of its size. Large financial services employers sit alongside hotels, restaurants and visitor attractions that swing hard with the seasons, and a care sector serving an older resident population than most of the country.
That mix produces the questions we are asked most often here. Running seasonal contracts and variable hours properly rather than informally. Competing for office staff against employers who can pay London rates for remote roles. Managing absence and performance in care settings where cover cannot simply be dropped.
Where we work across Dorset
We support employers across Bournemouth, Poole and Christchurch, and further into Dorset including Wimborne, Ferndown, Dorchester and Weymouth.
Looking for a different part of the country? See our full list of locations, or read more about outsourced HR and employee relations support.
Common questions
You do not. We support employers across Dorset remotely, on site and through pre-arranged meetings, so where your office sits matters less than the support you need.
Yes. Plenty of clients bring us in for a single tribunal claim, a restructure or a TUPE transfer, then come back when the next one lands.
Usually within a few days. Where something urgent has landed, such as a grievance or a suspension, we can normally speak to you the same week.
Yes. Much of our work along the Dorset coast is with businesses between 20 and 250 people, where a full in-house HR function is hard to justify but the people issues are the same.
