Consultancy service

The Employer Link consultancy service offers affordable advice and support on a wide range of HR and management issues, combining our in-house expertise with a team of associate specialists.

Our connection to the Local Government Association Workforce team also gives us a unique position at the heart of national pay and conditions bargaining.

Our offer

We provide a range of consultancy services and products across key strategic themes:

Pay and rewards

We provide advice, design and costing of pay and reward strategies that motivate people throughout their careers and address productivity while helping to manage employment costs.

We offer expertise in a range of job evaluation schemes and can provide support on how to complete job evaluation questionnaires, including running employee and manager workshops.

We also run compliance audits such as equal pay and equality impact assessments to ensure your systems meet legal requirements.  

Additionally we can:

• undertake pay modelling
• work up pay policy
• assist in implementation.

 

Workforce relations and engagement

Workforce relations

When relationship issues develop at work – especially involving senior people in the organisation, a trusted independent advisor is likely to be the best solution to resolve the situation

We are able to provide support to organisations dealing with complex employee relations casework. We have a team of experienced practitioners who are able to undertake investigations and arbitration or help resolve problems using less formal approaches such as mediation.

Workforce engagement

TEDD: The Employment Deal Diagnostic Survey –  TEDD® is a diagnostic tool to help organisations identify the right actions to take to improve engagement and increase performance. It enables the employer to find out how staff perceive their employment relationship and how this translates into enablers and barriers to performance.

Organisational design

Employer Link can help you through organisational transformation to deliver people-centred and value for money services, using the best organisational design techniques.

Our methodology utilises Decision Making Accountability (DMA) tool. DMA is a re-organisational design tool that establishes two key fundamental for an organisation:

• the number of management layers needed for an organisation to be as effective as possible
• the decision rights in different layers that managers require to be empowered.

It is a proven way of creating an efficient management structure. The methodology also provides a diagnostic to improve organisational effectiveness and develop staff skills.

The DMA approach has helped organisations save money, led to timely decision-making, clear responsibilities and empowerment of leadership roles

Pay benchmarking in MATs

Pay benchmarking for the "central" teams of Multi-Academy Trusts

We have a public sector ethos and are committed to delivering value for money. Contact us to explore how we can provide the targeted support you need at a very competitive rate.