Outsourced HR support across Kent
Our Kent team works with employers across the county, providing experienced HR support when and where it is needed. We work with organisations across Kent 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 Kent team
Kent employers are concentrated in logistics and freight, manufacturing, care and horticulture. We support organisations with exactly these challenges. In wholesale and distribution that includes PenCarrie and Philip Dennis Foodservice. In manufacturing, Garador. In healthcare, Kebomed UK. Read how we supported PenCarrie through relocation and successive reorganisations.
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 Kent contact
Emily Hunter, People Services Director, leads specialist HR support for clients across Kent. She is the person you speak to, backed by a team of more than thirty specialists covering employment law, employee relations, talent and reward. Read more about Emily.
Why employers in Kent come to us
Kent leans on logistics and freight through Dover and the Channel Tunnel, on agriculture and horticulture with its seasonal workforce, and on a care sector that keeps growing. Add the commuter belt in the north west of the county and you have employers competing for staff against London salaries while running on regional budgets.
That combination produces the questions we are asked most often here. Keeping good people who could earn more an hour up the line. Running seasonal and fixed term contracts properly rather than rolling them over and hoping. Handling absence and performance across a workforce spread over several sites.
Where we work in Kent
We support employers across the county, from Dartford and Gravesend in the north west, through Maidstone, Sevenoaks and Tunbridge Wells, out to Canterbury, Ashford, Folkestone and Dover on the coast.
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 the county 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 in Kent 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.
