Caitlin Anniss
Lead HR Consultant - Director
Caitlin co-founded and is a Director of Narrow Quay HR. Caitlin is an experienced employment lawyer by background and holds a CIPD qualification, and she is dual qualified in Human Resources. She is an Associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD). Caitlin uses the skills from her 16 years of work as an employment lawyer to support clients with their strategic and day to day HR concerns.
How Can Caitlin Help You?
• Providing practical and pragmatic HR support and training to businesses, charities and schools.
• Support with disciplinary and grievances, redundancies, complex investigations, and consultation exercises.
• Management of day to day matters and complex strategic projects.
If you would like to discuss the support Narrow Quay HR can provide to your organisation, call Caitlin on 07909 683 938.
Sarah Martin
HR Consultant - Director
Sarah co-founded and is a Director of Narrow Quay HR. Prior to becoming a HR specialist, Sarah spent many years as an employment lawyer. Sarah uses the technical and analytical skills she developed as a lawyer to ensure she can support clients across a range of sectors to deliver well thought out and pragmatic solutions to HR issues. Sarah is a Trustee and Chair of the Staffing Committee of an outstanding Multi-academy Trust, providing Sarah with a different perspective and further valuable insight.
How Can Sarah Help You?
• Providing support with projects and consultation exercises.
• Undertaking workplace investigations into sensitive and complex matters.
• Providing training on a range of HR topics such as Essential HR for Line Managers and Unconscious Bias.
If you need support with any of the above, please call Sarah on 07799 136 091.
Simon Martin
HR Consultant
Simon is an experienced HR consultant at Narrow Quay HR. He is a qualified and experienced employment lawyer with over 20 years’ experience of advising and assisting employers on all employment law related matters.
How Can Simon Help You?
• Carrying out investigations into matters such as disciplinary processes, grievances and complaints of discrimination.
• Support with disciplinary and grievance hearings, redundancies, discrimination, and consultation exercises.
• Management of both day to day matters and more complex strategic projects.
If you need support with any of the above, call Simon on 07384 813 076.
Helen Couchman
HR Consultant
Helen is a MCIPD qualified HR professional with 18 years’ experience working across a range of organisations in both the public and private sector, including healthcare and education.
How Can Helen Help You?
• Support with day to day operational HR matters such as employee relations issues, policy and process review and performance management, all in line with HR best practice.
• Carry out independent investigations, employee panel hearings, redundancies, consultations and implementation of change.
• Support the strategic goals of your HR function through strategy development, organisation design and culture transformation.
If you need support with any of the above, call Helen on 07799 901 669.
Sue Meehan Boyes
HR Consultant
Sue is an HR Consultant at Narrow Quay HR. Sue is MCIPD qualified with over 25 years of HR expertise gained within a wide range of organisations. Having worked previously as an internal HR Business Partner, Sue’s experience is across a wide range of HR topics, including change management, employee relations, organisation design and performance management.
How Can Sue Help You?
• Support with day to day operational HR matters such as employee relations issues, policy and process review and performance management, all in line with HR best practice.
• Carry out project work such as independent investigations, employee panel hearings, redundancies, consultations and implementation of change.
• Support the strategic goals of your HR function through strategy development, organisation design and culture transformation.
If you need support with any of the above, call Sue on 07384 468 797.
Kirsty Hunt
HR Consultant
Kirsty previously worked as an employment lawyer for over 10 years before to moving into a HR focused role. Kirsty provides a commercial and pragmatic approach to supporting businesses with day to day operational issues and has worked across a range of organisations in both the public and private sector. In particular, Kirsty has worked with a number of large health organisations.
How Can Kirsty Help You?
• Support with day to day operational issues including, employee relations, drafting contracts and policy reviews, staff training and helping to implement positive change.
• Support with staff management in relation to conduct, sickness absence and performance management.
• Carry out project work such as grievance and disciplinary investigations, panel support and redundancy consultations.
If you need support with any of the above, call Kirsty on 07384 813 077.
Jo Bradbury
HR Consultant
Jo has over 16 years’ experience providing tailored HR solutions, having worked both as a qualified employment solicitor acting for both public and private sector clients, and as a senior HR specialist working in the education sector. Jo has over ten years’ experience as a trustee and governor of an outstanding academy, strategically leading as Chair of Governors for six years; she is also a Trustee of a local gymnastics club (a Charitable Incorporated Organisation).
How Can Jo Help You?
• Undertake investigations into complex, sensitive or confidential staffing matters, including disciplinary allegations and grievances involving senior postholders.
• Support with panel hearings and appeals, consultation and restructuring, strategic planning exercises and projects, bespoke training.
• Day-to-day operational support including staff under-performance, absence management, conflict, equality, wellbeing, recruitment and pay.
If you need support with any of the above, call Jo on 07570 372118.
Sarah Carrington
HR Consultant
Sarah has 25 years’ experience working as a Director in HR across the public, charitable and private sectors, including the NHS, Social Care and most recently the cultural sector.
Sarah is also a fellow of the CIPD, an accredited Mediator, a CIPD Enterprise Advisor and mentor, a school governor for a pupil referral unit, and a Mental Health First Aider.
How Can Sarah Help You?
• Providing strategic and on site HR support with transformational change initiatives such as restructures, mergers, TUPE transfers and designing, negotiating and implementing new pay and reward systems.
• Providing support with disciplinary and grievance hearings, redundancy processes, complex investigations, and consultation exercises
• As an accredited mediator, offering mediation as a tool to resolve workplace conflict and find positive outcomes.
If you need support with any of the above, call Sarah on 07918 451 453.
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