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For small businesses

We’re here to help with solutions tailored to your needs including ‘Pay As You Go HR’ for as and when you need us, ‘Fixed Price HR Packages’ for on-going support and a range of HR Packs you can purchase online.

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For corporate businesses

We work with a wide range of businesses throughout the UK helping them to align their HR and business strategies to maximise growth.

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For the healthcare industry

We have a dedicated team of HR consultants that have experience of working with the NHS, General Practitioners, Primary Care Networks and with other allied healthcare providers.

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For franchises

We work with franchise owners and their networks across the UK to provide comprehensive support and expert advice for managing a wide range of workforce issues.

HR Support For Small Businesses
Pay As You Go Or Fixed Price HR Solutions
HR Practioners With Specialist Skills
HR Expertise When You Need It

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Nationwide HR Consultants Based in Staffordshire, Supporting Businesses Across the UK

If your business is looking to grow and needs help with its HR, we’d love the opportunity to speak to you.

At Centric HR, we’ve built our reputation by helping organisations of all sizes, from start-ups with fewer than 10 employees to public sector bodies like the NHS, manage their people effectively while staying compliant with UK employment law.

Led by Sandra Berns, Chartered Fellow of the CIPD, our team brings decades of hands-on HR experience across private, public, and unionised sectors. We don’t believe in generic “one size fits all” advice. Instead, we take time to understand your culture, challenges, and goals before recommending practical solutions that work in the real world.

Our specialist HR consultants have guided businesses through:

  • Restructures and redundancy programmes – saving clients thousands in potential tribunal costs.
  • Workforce efficiency projects – helping organisations identify savings while protecting employee wellbeing.
  • People strategies for growth – from setting up contracts and policies for new ventures to designing reward and retention programmes for established SMEs.

Whether you need ad-hoc HR advice at an hourly rate, a bundle of hours, or a fixed monthly package, our flexible support adapts to your business needs. We’re proud that many clients describe us as an extension of their leadership team, trusted to resolve sensitive issues quickly and professionally.

Sandra Berns
Managing Director, Centric HR

Clients We Have Worked With

HR Consultants Based in Staffordshire, Covering the UK

Click below to view our HR Consultant services:

  1. Day to Day Operational HR Services – Our Operational HR services can be accessed either through Pay As You Go HR (ad-hoc hourly rate) or through our Fixed Price HR Packages.
  2. People Strategies – At Centric HR we help various organisations to understand their business objectives and priorities.
  3. Workforce Efficiency & Planning – One of our key specialisms is being able to look at a workforce structure/processes.
  4. Performance & Reward Management – At Centric HR we believe that Performance and Reward Management is an essential element.
  5. Attraction & Retention – At Centric HR we believe that developing a strategic attraction and retention plan will.
  6. Transformational Change – At Centric HR we believe that a Transformational change in the business world, involves.
  7. TUPE – TUPE stands for the Transfer of Undertakings (Protection of Employment) Regulations and its purpose.
  8. Employee Relations – Employee Relations Consultants & Employment Relations Support for UK Businesses.
  9. Line Management People Skills – Any organisation that wants to achieve success needs strong line management people skills.
  10. HR Projects – Human Resources in project management focus on short term or long term HR Projects.
  11. Interim HR Management – The team at Centric HR are fully versed in strategic and operational HR management.
  12. Culture and Values Development – This is what makes your business unique, what makes it thrive and in turn, sums up all of it’s core values, traditions, beliefs, interactions, behaviours and attitudes.
  13. Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Services – Having a diverse workforce and inclusive culture is central to a successful business.
  14. Employee Engagement – Employee engagement is the extent to which employees feel passionate about their jobs and are committed to the organisation and in turn, put discretionary effort into their work.
  15. Employee Recognition & Reward – Recognition is one of the best methods of improving work motivation and employee engagement.
  16. Employee Health & Wellbeing – Healthy and well-motivated employees can have a positive impact on the productivity and effectiveness of a business, which in turn creates a positive wellbeing feeling.
  17. Talent & Succession Planning – Organisations with talent and succession planning programmes in place foster a talent-oriented culture by recruiting skilled workers.
  18. Personal Coaching of Employees – Personal coaching of employees can be an effective approach to developing your team.
  19. Defined HR Consultancy – Defined HR Consultancy can often be used to address a particular problem or deficit and tasked with assessment, auditing, proposal and implementation of a policy.
  20. HR Outsourcing – Identify easy quick wins on workforce efficiency and planning to enable your business to run smoothly and become more cost effective. We provide HR outsourcing services throughout the UK.

HR health check to identify your workforce needs.

Expert telephone support.

HR updates before legislation takes effect.

A bespoke HR plan for your business.

Breathe HR Software

Transform how you manage HR admin by centralising all your information in one place.

Keeping all your employee information in one place and automating all those time consuming human resource administrative tasks, Breathe transforms the way you manage your HR. With customisable reports, automated and streamlined processes, this HR management system gives you the tools you need to support your business.

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Why Use Our HR Consulting Services

Companies who fail to comply with laws and regulations can face large penalties at employment tribunals, along with the legal costs that come with it.

Centric HR are specialists in this area and have a large amount of  knowledge in employment law. This means the chance of a tribunal for an in-house conflict or situation is much less likely.

For more information on our HR consultancy services and how Centric HR can help your business grow, please contact us.

Discover how Centric HR can help your organisation

Discover how Centric HR can help your organisation…

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Align your HR & Business Strategies to maximise growth

  • Anticipate and manage change
  • Attract and retain talent
  • Simplify processes
  • Lay the foundations for the future
  • Make savings through workforce efficiencies

We’re helping SMEs grow.

More Clients We Have Worked With

Our Google Reviews

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Time Assist Ltd
14:51 01 Dec 22
We have been using Centric HR as our outsourced HR provider since we established in 2020. Sandra and her team have been absolutely invaluable in creating company handbook, sorting out our contracts and helping us with generic HR matters.

Centric HR also assisted us with the Kickstarter Scheme and we managed to secure an excellent candidate who supported Time Assist for over a year.

The team is always on hand and willing to help and give advice (no matter how irrelevant the questions might seem).

I have no hesitation in recommending Centric HR to anyone who needs ad hoc HR support (or on a monthly retainer for that matter).

Thank you!
Jaanika and Time Assist team
Nicola Hunt
09:30 24 Nov 22
Amy was so knowledgeable and helpful with a recent query. The expert knowledge supplied by Centric HR allows us to concentrate on our core business activity with increased confidence in our outsourced partners.
Paul Donlon
12:44 22 Nov 22
“I have deferred to Sandra’ expertise many times over the years so it makes sense to work closely with Centric HR. It was a great decision to secure Sandra’s services on retainer at the start of 2017 – since then Sandra’s advice from a technical point of view has been outstanding. She’s also very easy to work with and viewed as a key member of the decision-making team. Thoroughly recommended
Derek Douglas
17:06 21 Nov 22
Centric supported our organisation through a difficult and complicated period with redundancies and restructuring. Very professional and supportive service from all staff who are very helpful. Centric gives you confidence that they are able to resolve HR issues and ensure that you avoid any pitfalls. They ensure that your needs are fully met in line with the organisations objectives and take the weight of your shoulders, whilst you concentrate on other matters. As a Charity we are were grateful for the quality service. I would recommend their service to support and equip you to develop your organisation.
Gemma Farrell
16:53 21 Nov 22
Centric HR is very proactive in their approach and support whenever a need for their services occur. We have been very fortunate to be able to seek the advice required from Sandra and the team. We look forward to our continued partnership and would have no problem providing a full recommendation.

What Our Clients Say

Sue Noyes – TASC The Ambulance Staff Charity

“Centric HR worked with the TASC team over a number of months. Centric worked professionally and put in place a number of policies and a staff handbook, at a particularly challenging time for the charity. They also provided excellent professional advice to myself as we worked through a sensitive issue for a member of staff – very wise counsel at that time was much appreciated.”

Michael Parr, Operational Director of Finance – George Eliot NHS Trust

“Centric HR were engaged to provide professional programme management for workforce transformation at the George Eliot NHS Trust. The Centric team clearly relished the transformational challenge this project presented, their energy, creativity and focus on delivery provided a much needed injection of pace. They provided advice and support to our clinical leadership right across the organisation giving them the confidence to embrace change and get things done. The programme was successful and exceeded target delivery in both time and savings.”

Ben Kain – Insafe

“Centric HR make the whole process so easy – it was the best decision Insafe made to help us  through the acquisition of 50 staff.  They are the experts and we feel assured by their advice and guidance – they are there whenever we need them.  Our staff also feel safe when dealing with Centric colleagues.”

Rachel Chudley – Head of Housing at Housing Plus Group

Sandra is a rare find – technically expert, practical, solutions focused, whilst being people orientated. Add to this that she’s reliable, great fun to work with and gives leaders at all levels confidence and you can see why she’s rare! Can’t recommend Sandra and Centric HR more highly.

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We can help your organisation through a Defined HR Consultancy with…

Business recovery

Business growth plans

Preparedness for merger/acquisition

Audit and compliance validation

Performance evaluation

Vertical integration with corporate strategy

Conflict management support

Managing large scale redundancies

Setting up local joint negotiating committees

Organisational development

3 Key Benefits of Defined HR Consultancy

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Recruitment

An effective and efficient recruiting and hiring process is a must for companies to remain competitive.

Assessment

An honest performance assessment. Often, it’s difficult to see the truth when you are too close to the situation.

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Management

Reduce the stress and strain on your management teams at all levels with a team dedicated to working on your HR functions.

For further information on how Centric HR can help your business and advise you with a Defined HR Consultancy plan within your organisation please…

"Our role is to assist our clients with identification of their HR needs, help them develop an action plan and establish policy and procedures to enhance the success of their organisation."