Chris Wimshurst

Wondering how to engage Line Managers in supporting the People Profession? The have a look at this guidance from the CIPD which covers all the information you need. https://lnkd.in/eHQqtxRN

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This month we celebrate Pride and those who identify as part of the LGBTQ+ community. As an employee of Maximus UK, I am proud to be a part of an organisation that stands for diversity and actively supports the rainbow community. Unfortunately, the LGBTQ+ community continues to experience widespread discrimination in the UK and globally. Research conducted in 2018 and 2021 found the following: Only half of lesbian, gay and bi people (46%) and trans people (47%) feel able to be open about their sexual orientation or gender identity to everyone in their family. More than one in ten LGBT people (11%) have faced domestic abuse from a partner in the last year. Almost one in five LGBT people (18%) have experienced homelessness at some point in their lives. Half of black, Asian and minority ethnic LGBT people (51%) have experienced discrimination or poor treatment from others in their local LGBT community because of their ethnicity. More than a third of LGBT staff (35%) have hidden that they are LGBT at work for fear of discrimination. Almost two in five bi people (38%) aren’t out to anyone at work about their sexual orientation, compared to 7% of gay men and 4% of lesbians. One in four trans people (26%) aren’t open with anyone at work about being trans. This number increases to about two in five non-binary people (37%) who aren’t out at work. Almost one in five LGBT staff (18%) have been the target of negative comments or conduct from work colleagues because they’re LGBT. Almost one in five LGBT people (18%) who were looking for work said they were discriminated against because of their identity while trying to get a job. These and other statistics highlight just how important it is for programmes like Maximus UK's Work and Health Pioneer to exist, providing support to those in greatest need overcome challenges and barriers to employment and health. If you are part of the LGBTQ+ community or know someone who is and you need support to find employment, reach out to us today and find out how we can help. #LGBTQ #Employmentsupport #CVWriting #Interviewprep #Diversity #Domesticabuse #Homelessness #Traininganddevelopment #Socialsupport #PrideMonth

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🔍 Struggling to maintain a fully staffed and skilled care team? As a social care provider, your focus is on delivering consistent, quality care – but keeping your teams fully staffed with dedicated professionals is just as critical. That's why we've curated #TopTips from our Cohesion recruitment process to help you maximise the potential of your teams. 🌟 ➡ Check out our latest blog to elevate your recruitment strategy: https://lnkd.in/eHqv3WFt #SocialCare #Recruitment #CohesionProcess #HiringTips 

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Don’t miss out on this webinar on how businesses can transform their workplace mental health culture 💙

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Do you want to attract high-quality talent in the NHS? Download our FREE recruiters guide now! Learn why diversity matters in the NHS and get practical tips to improve your hiring process. Don't miss out on hitting your recruitment targets! https://hubs.li/Q02sTfNg0 #NHS #recruitment #diversity #inclusion #recruitmenttech #ATS #CRM #wednesdaymorning

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The Healthcare Recruitment Landscape in 2024: What you need to know Did you know the average time it takes to fill permanent healthcare roles is increasing across the UK? Competition for skilled professionals is fierce, but strategic recruitment can give you an edge. Our team has deep insights into industry trends, candidate expectations, and how to stand out as an employer of choice. Stay ahead of the curve - partner with recruiters who understand your challenges and know how to solve them. Comment "interested" below, and we'll share how we can help you stay ahead in 2024/5 ! #healthcarerecruitment #healthcareprofessionals #staffingsolutions #toptalent #permanentroles #healthcarejobsuk

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☑ Explore psychological safety within your own organisation Our free checklist gives you the opportunity to score your organisation against key psychological safety measures, helping you identify strengths and opportunities for improvement. Download yours here: https://lnkd.in/ebMD2fTK

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Our recent webinar focused on effective strategies for retaining staff📣 Notably, the UK now has 5% more job vacancies than pre-COVID times, which heightens competition for talent, overburdens existing staff, and reduces morale and productivity, all negatively affecting retention. ❌ If you want to learn more about the different ways you can retain your staff, get in touch, and we'll share the full recording with you! 📧 [email protected] ☎ 01442 874884 #webinar #retention #recruitment #engineering #engineer #software #mechanical #manufacturing #electronics

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HR Hub members... 👇 ACCESS THESE NEW RESOURCES PUBLISHED TODAY... 🙋 Briefing to Accompany Engagement Survey Questions 💰 Gender Pay Gap Employer Guidance 📈 Letter Advising of Pay Increase due to NMW / NLW rate increase ✅ Letter Confirming Pay Increase due to Cost of Living 🙅 Letter Declining Pay Increase due to Cost of Living 📝 Letter to Employee Informing about Voluntary Gender Pay Gap Reporting 😄 Letter to Employee Informing of New Benefits Scheme All documents can be found under our 'What's In it for Me?' section of our HR Hub. This section contains information relating to pay, benefits (including holiday) and employee engagement. 𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗥 𝗛𝘂𝗯 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲: https://lnkd.in/eYdggDEn Check back for updates 𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥𝗬 𝗧𝗨𝗘𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗟𝗨𝗡𝗖𝗛𝗧𝗜𝗠𝗘! 🥪 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - We upload new resources weekly so the HR Hub can continue to be your 'one-stop-shop' for everything HR... even with new trends, technologies, and changes to employment law, we are dedicated to ensuring our HR Hub will bring relevant and modern content to help you grow, manage and develop. You can expect our weekly uploads to bring useful policies, letter templates, guidance, exclusive interviews, ideas and inspiration! #HRTool #ItsAllAboutPeople #HRResource

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Free Webinar: Unlock the Power of Talent Management 🗓 Date: 25 July 2024 🕒 Time: 16:00-17:30 (CAT) 💻 Virtual via Zoom 📈 CPD Points: 1 Clinical Join us for an insightful session on how HR professionals can support line managers in fostering employee experience and development. This webinar will explore: 🔹 The crucial role of line managers in Talent Management 🔹 The impact of line managers on talent development 🔹 Changes since the pandemic and necessary actions 🔹 Tools and strategies for HR to equip line managers 🔹 Motivating and inspiring line managers 🔹 Identifying, developing, and coaching talent without increasing workload 🔹 Practical tools and success stories for line managers' success Register here: https://lnkd.in/dz2n2rWE #TalentManagement #HRWebinar #ProfessionalDevelopment #CPDPoints #EmployeeExperience

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With an evolving and expanding remit, HR teams will need to focus on their own capabilities and agility to respond effectively to the complexities and tensions over the coming year and beyond. No more cobbler’s shoes, as is so often the case. The article highlights numerous priorities (thank you for sharing, Emma-Claire Kavanagh) to exercise our collective minds, and a few key themes are: 1. Delivering cost savings whilst costs of employment are set to rise and employees are seeking more financial support and individualised benefits. 2. Balancing investments in technologies that will support employee experience and retention in the medium term with immediate budget constraints. 3. Delivering high quality colleague and candidate experience today AND better anticipating skill and workforce shifts to remain competitive for tomorrow. 4. Navigating the challenges of embedding hybrid and remote working globally, including managing diverse and distributed cross-border teams, and leading changes in organisation footprint resulting from economic and political uncertainties. Although AI can deliver operational efficiencies, reveal engagement insights, and enable a shift towards predictive capabilities, many organisations and HR teams don’t believe they’re ready to fully embrace and benefit from the tools available. There’s a danger that a piecemeal response to changes in compliance/ policies, AI/digital solutions, and workforce/skill requirements will undermine a strategic approach, generate confusion and delay efficiency gains. I was fascinated to learn recently from behaviour and organisation science expert, Burak Koyuncu, PhD, that brains love to aggregate losses and disaggregate gains. Translating this into organisation change, it’s helpful to drip feed good news to reinforce positives over time. Conversely, challenges and difficult messages are better delivered together to minimise the compounding effect of ongoing, disjointed change, which can encourage and perpetuate a negative mood and narrative. There’s a compelling argument that the top priorities for HR’s own capability build aren’t AI, employment law and the myriad other critical specialisms after all, but are instead strategic planning, business acumen, influence, and leading change, which together will help land the complex people agenda.

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Expert advice on UK Employment Law ensures bulletproof HR practices. Trust our specialists to keep your business legally sound. #expertlawadivce #hrpractices #hrspecialist

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Is your charity falling behind on HR compliance & efficiency? Learn how Appogee HR can help your organisation: ✅ Save time & resources with HR automation ✅ Simplify staff management including ✅ Meet compliance standards with ease Join our FREE webinar! Sign up today | https://hubs.la/Q02V5g-J0 #Charity #HRManagement #Nonprofit #HRSoftware #Event #Webinar #HRTransformation

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One of the main things I know people worry about when thinking about starting to offer HR Consultancy services is whether there will be enough work available. 📍Will they be able to find clients? 📍Are businesses taking on Consultants right now? These questions aren’t actually the same. Yes businesses are taking on Consultants. They always are no matter what the current economic environment is. Either things are good and they need people for additional capacity or specialist skills Or times are tough and the prospect of temporary support is preferable to a long term fixed cost. But does that mean you’ll be able to find clients? Not necessarily Something I have learned over the past 10+ years of working with HR Consultants is that finding clients and projects doesn’t actually have that much to do with how much work is out there. It’s to do with your approach. 📍How visible you are prepared to be 📍how willing you are to get past your worries about what people will think 📍How often you are prepared to post about your offer, whether you will go the extra yard when really you just want to stop. There’s always something more to do, there’s always something you know you are choosing not to do because it feels uncomfortable or you just don’t want to. And no judgment from me - I’m not always showing up when I should. But I find a lot of comfort in the idea that my success or otherwise is not about outside factors or the state of the economy. Mainly it’s up to me and what I am ready to put into it. And it’s the same for you Will it be easy? No Is it possible? Yes It Can you make a success of it? Yes. The projects and clients are out there - but you will have to get out of your comfort zone to find them. #hr #hrconsultancy #corporatetoconsultancy

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