Proactive HR Services and Consultancy
For over a decade, our clients have relied on us not only to advise, but to actively recommend and implement strategies that enhance management capabilities and empower leaders to drive their teams to success. We take a proactive approach to HR services, offering comprehensive solutions tailored to your business needs. From management development training that equips leaders with the skills they need to thrive, to workplace mediation that resolves conflicts and promotes a harmonious work environment.
We work closely with businesses across Brighton & Hove, London, and throughout the UK, offering both on-site and remote proactive HR services. Whether you’re a local business or operating UK-wide, we’re here to ensure your leaders are empowered, and your teams are supported wherever you are.
Proactive HR
From redundancy consultations, to managing employee performance and support with recruitment. At OneHR, we’re here to support you and give trusted advice.
Your culture extends to and impacts on every part of your business. We’ve seen our clients put their culture and staff development at the top of their agenda over the past few years, underpinned by solid foundations such as reward & recognition initiatives.
This can be the most resource-hungry aspect of HR for a growing business. If you need help to relieve the administrative burden, we can free up your time by drafting adverts and job descriptions, sift applicants, support interviews, manage the offer process, and coordinate the onboarding with the line managers.
Are you looking to attract the best talent? Do you want to motivate and retain your people? You can rely on our experience of putting in place meaningful appraisals, regular 121s, monitor performance and manage capability.


Our clients find that engaging their employees' opinions provides them with invaluable feedback. When we carry out engagement surveys on their behalf, we don't just collate feedback; we also outline recommendations. This opens up a two-way communication channel, which leads to meaningful consultations about working arrangements and implementing changes. By increasing job satisfaction and productivity, you become an employer of choice.
Downsizing and restructuring can often result in unavoidable redundancies and we know this is always a difficult aspect of keeping a business as sustainable and efficient as possible. With our help, you can mitigate against loss of jobs and potential costly tribunal claims. By managing the entire consultation process for you, we use our commercial acumen and employment law knowledge to provide a consultation process which is consistent and fair for all impacted.
With an ever changing market, we like to keep our clients updated with job evaluations and salary benchmarking. We manage annual pay reviews and annual bonuses payments. With limited budgets, it can be challenging to know what Reward & Recognition scheme to choose. We pride ourselves in understanding how to tailor benefits management specific to your sector, and how to implement them within your organisation.
Are you seeking additional ideas to become a fully diverse & inclusive employer? Looking after your staff and focusing on employee wellbeing will have positive effects on managing costly absence levels and increasing staff retention. We can help by reviewing your absence data and recommending all relevant policies around managing mental health at work. Through us, you will have access to an Employee Assistance Programme called Bhsf Connect, which is an easy-to-use App for mobile devices. In addition to enabling your people to access the support they need on the go, it has the advantage of ensuring compliance with the Equality Act 2010, enabling you to make reasonable adjustments for staff with protected characteristics.
Are you satisfied with your recruitment and retention plans? Are they making a difference to attracting and keeping the right people into your business? Our expertise in designing bespoke development plans enables companies to plan for succession in the short, medium and long term - we'd love to help your organisation plan for future growth proactively!
These reports can be tailored to your needs, but could include reporting on staff turnover, absence rates, starters and leavers, annual leave, training attendance, 121s, and reward & recognition.
We are CMC (Civil Mediation Council) Registered for workplace mediation and CIPD qualified, ensuring we meet the highest professional standards in human resources and leadership training.
Compliance Support
By letting us carry out an audit of your business, we report on what essentials are missing and what we recommend you consider putting in place - now, in the medium term, and in the longer term. Our suggestions are specific to your priorities and ensure you always remain compliant with the law.
Is your business missing the necessary framework policies to run effectively, such as disciplinary and grievance policies that you need for statutory compliance? By reviewing what you already have in place, we ensure compliance and minimise the risks, but always with what is right for your specific sector in mind - we know one size doesn't fit all!
The Employee Handbook is an essential tool for organisations to make available as a welcome guide to current employees and new starters. Handbooks come in all shapes and sizes, which is why we provide one that fits your culture and values, while still meeting statutory guidance.
Everyone who is offered a role must be given a contract of employment that meets current legal requirements. We only use the most up-to-date templates, which include service agreements for self-employed freelancers and contractors and casual and bank contracts.
It is vital to make sure IT and HR storing processes are secure, GDPR compliant and mitigate against breaches of data. The cost of getting this wrong can run into the hundreds of thousands. When you become a client, we give you access to 'Breathe', an easy-to-use HR system that acts as a central place to hold company documents, company announcements, pay and job history, timesheets and so much more. Line managers are able to review and approve leave requests, log absences, review expense requests and capture easy-to-refer-to performance review notes. We work with Breathe because it meets GDPR and ISO compliance requirements. We use it to provide you with a structured management process, to give you a better communication channel that everyone has easy access to and we use it to provide you with a monthly or quarterly management report. When we manage your admin, you and your team can concentrate on projects and deliverables - as it should be.
Our retained clients benefit from receiving our easy-to-digest updates full of useful information on employment law, including any learnings from recent employment tribunal rulings as a useful what to do/what not to do guide including links to external resources. Called ‘Coffee Break’, the update can be easily read in 15 minutes.
We work with the Federation of Small Businesses, which is the UK’s leading business campaigner. FSB focuses on delivering change which supports smaller businesses to grow and succeed. Benefits to business include debt recovery, employment protection, healthcare, insurance, a legal protection scheme, tax investigation protection and so much more.
We are a trusted partner of Breathe, which offers solutions that simplify HR management and reduces HR admin work. With Breathe, we help you save time by streamlining holiday requests, sickness tracking, document management, and centralising employee information. Plus, with Breathe’s ISO27001-accredited software, your employee data remains secure and GDPR-compliant.
HR Terminology
There are many facets of Human Resources and we get involved with many different elements that come with employing people and reporting on key data. Our HR Glossary Series explains the definitions of some of the most commonly searched HR-related workplace topics.









