Outsourced HR support across York
Our team works with employers across York and the wider North Yorkshire area, providing experienced HR support when and where it is needed. We work with organisations across the region remotely, on site and through pre-arranged meetings at locations across Yorkshire.
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 York team
York runs on a visitor economy, on higher education, on rail and engineering, and on a financial services presence larger than the city’s size suggests. We support organisations with exactly these challenges. In hospitality and consumer that includes Compass Box Whisky. In professional and financial services, BNF Capital. In manufacturing, Garador. 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 York contact
Abi Meehan, People Business Partner, covers York and the wider Yorkshire area. She is the person you speak to, backed by a team of more than thirty specialists covering employment law, employee relations, talent and reward. Meet the team.
Why employers in York come to us
York carries a visitor economy that swings with the seasons, two universities feeding a young workforce, and an engineering and rail base that has been there far longer than either. Employers here often run a small core team alongside a much larger seasonal one.
That produces the questions we are asked most often here. Running seasonal and zero hours arrangements properly rather than informally. Keeping trained people through a quiet winter. Managing a workforce where a third of the team turns over every year without the paperwork slipping.
Where we work across North Yorkshire
We support employers across York and the wider county, including Harrogate, Scarborough, Northallerton, Selby and Ripon.
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 North Yorkshire 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 North Yorkshire 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.
