Services

Three ways I can help your business grow well.

As an ongoing strategic partner, on specific projects, or when something lands on your desk and you need someone experienced, fast.

You’ll usually work with me directly. Behind me is a small team of trusted advisors, so bigger projects get the capacity they need.

Every engagement starts with a conversation. No proposals until I understand the business.

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Strategic HR Partnership

You’re growing. You need senior HR thinking in the room, but not a full-time salary on the books.

I work alongside your leadership team as your fractional HR Director or Chief People Officer. That means I’m in on the strategy, the structure, the hard conversations and the big decisions, not just the admin.

We always start with an HR Diagnostic, like a health check for your HR. It gives us a clear, honest picture of where you are now, where you want to get to, and the gaps in between. From there, we tackle the quick wins first, usually making sure the essentials are solid and compliant, so you’ve got firm foundations to build on.

This is retained, ongoing work. I get to know your business properly: your people, your culture, your commercial pressures. You get a senior HR partner who picks up the phone, knows the context, and doesn’t need a brief every time.

This is right for you if: you’re a business of 30 people and up, you have ambitions to grow, and you want someone who thinks like a board-level HR leader, not just a policy writer.

Talk through your situation

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HR Projects and Change

Sometimes you don’t need ongoing support. You need someone to come in, sort something specific, and hand it back in good shape.

  • Leadership and management training, designed and delivered for your team
  • Restructures and redundancy programmes
  • TUPE transfers
  • Mergers and acquisitions
  • Culture and engagement work
  • Employee engagement surveys
  • Pay and benefits benchmarking
  • People strategy design
  • Talent and succession planning
  • Recruitment campaigns for key hires

I also design and deliver leadership and management training, built from scratch around your managers and your business. No off-the-shelf slides. Just practical, confidence-building sessions your managers will actually use.

On bigger projects, we bring in the right people from our small team of trusted advisors, with me still leading, so you get the capacity you need without losing the personal touch.

We also partner with HR Directors and Chief People Officers who need extra senior capacity or specialist skills for this kind of work.

Every project has a clear scope, a timeline, and a fixed fee agreed upfront. No surprises.

Talk through your situation

03

Employee Relations and Investigations

This is where things get real. Someone’s made a complaint. There’s a grievance. An investigation needs running. A dismissal needs handling properly.

I’ve handled hundreds of these. Disciplinaries, grievances, appeals, complex ER cases, workplace investigations. I know the law, I know the process, and I stay calm when everyone else is (understandably) panicking.

If you need someone to step in and manage a difficult situation properly, quickly, and with the right legal footing, that’s what I do.

Talk through your situation

Core HR support

Strong foundations still matter.

Contracts, policies, handbooks, recruitment support, day-to-day HR advice. The fundamentals that every business needs to have in place.

I offer this as part of a retained partnership or as standalone support. If you’re not sure what you’ve got or what’s missing, start with a conversation and I’ll tell you honestly where the gaps are.

Focused starting points

HR Diagnostic

Know where you stand, and what needs attention.

Think of it as a health check for your HR, or an audit without the dread. As businesses grow, HR often develops piecemeal. The HR Diagnostic is a clear review of your current arrangements, highlighting the gaps, risks and priorities, so you know what to fix first. And no judgement from me.

Ask about an HR Diagnostic

New Starter Package

The essential foundations for your first or next employee.

A one-off, fixed-price package with an employment contract, core employment policies and a practical onboarding checklist. A clear, usable starting point without committing to ongoing support.

Talk about the package
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Hiring, made easier

Recruitment without the stress.

As an official Hireful partner, I can give you everything you need to hire well: smart applicant tracking software, discounted job adverts on the major job boards, and agency support when you really need it.

From £300 + VAT a year

I’ll set up your own branded applicant tracking system and careers page, and support you every step of the way.

Let’s talk hiring
  • Keep track of candidates easily

    Applicants, interviews and feedback, all in one place.

  • Stay GDPR compliant

    Applications and messages are stored safely and properly.

  • Make a great first impression

    A branded careers page linked to your website, with your brand on every step and every message.

  • Keep your hiring managers in the loop

    Give them access to their vacancies, with automatic updates as things move along.

  • Advertise in one click

    Post a branded job advert to lots of job boards at once.

Trusted partners

The right tools, when they’re relevant.

Where specialist technology would help your business, I can introduce trusted suppliers through my partnership arrangements. I’ll only recommend one when it fits what you need.

  • Official Hireful partner badge

    Hireful

    Applicant tracking software to make recruitment simpler and more organised, plus employee engagement surveys and benchmarking.

  • HiBob logo

    HiBob

    Bob is a modern HR platform for mid-sized and scaling companies that have outgrown legacy HR systems.

  • Official Cezanne HR partner badge

    Cezanne HR

    Flexible HR software for growing organisations’ core HR processes.

  • Official Training Sensei partner badge

    Training Sensei

    E-learning that makes workplace training accessible and easy to manage.

  • Zinc logo

    Zinc

    Online employee checks, including right-to-work checks.

Coming soon · For HR and people pros

Thinking of going it alone?

I’ve been there. I’m putting together practical, nuts-and-bolts help for HR and people professionals setting up on their own, drawing on everything I’ve learned building FARRELL HR.

  • · Practical articles and honest lessons
  • · A downloadable guide
  • · One-to-one sessions

It’s called SOLO HR.

Join the SOLO HR waitlist

Common questions

The things people usually ask me first.

What is a fractional HR Director?

A senior HR leader who works with your business part-time, on an ongoing basis. You get board-level HR thinking in the room for strategy, structure and the big decisions, without the cost of a full-time HR Director on the books.

What does an HR Diagnostic cover?

Think of it as a health check for your HR. I look at what you’ve got, what’s missing, and where the risks and opportunities are. You get a clear, honest picture of where you are now, where you want to get to and the gaps in between, plus the quick wins to tackle first.

What size of business do you work with?

Growing businesses, typically 30 people and up. Usually you’ve got ambitions to grow, things are on the move, and you’ve (politely) outgrown winging it, but you don’t need a full-time HR director.

Do you only work with businesses in one area?

Not at all. I support organisations across the UK and globally.

Can you help with an urgent employee relations issue?

Yes. Grievances, disciplinaries, appeals and workplace investigations are a big part of what I do. I can step in, handle it calmly and quickly, and make sure it’s done on the right legal footing. And if my team and I can’t take it on ourselves, I’ve got a large network of trusted providers I can pass you on to.

How do fees work?

Every project has a clear scope, a timeline and a fixed fee agreed upfront. For ongoing partnerships, we agree what you need and what it costs before anything starts. No surprises.

What happens on a discovery call?

You tell me what’s going on, and we work out together whether FARRELL HR is the right business to help, or whether I know one who is.

Not sure what you need?

Honestly, that’s completely normal. Most people don’t arrive with a tidy brief. They arrive with a worry, a question or a hunch that something isn’t quite right. Let’s talk it through calmly and work out the next step together.

Book a no-obligation discovery call

Shall we chat?

Not sure what you need? No problem. I’ll help you untangle it.

Grab a call with me. No pressure, just a friendly, confidential chat about your business.

Book a no-obligation discovery call