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HR and Payroll Service

The Service Offer

Subscription Services  Buy as You Need Services  Training Courses

Our service helps schools to succeed through proactive, targeted support and advice to facilitate excellent people management. You will have access to the professional services you need which enable you to reduce sickness, manage performance and pay your staff accurately and on time.  Our service will save you money and improve staff productivity.

Benefits

  • Through proactive and targeted support that is solution focussed, we help you to manage under-performance and conduct issues and reduce sickness absence so that you can develop a workforce that delivers the best outcomes for your pupils.
  • We offer solutions to help you achieve the best outcome for your academy in a timely manner.
  • We are quick to respond to legislative and statutory changes due to our links with a wide range of partners, services and national agencies.
  • We support your recruitment campaigns by sourcing engaged candidates from a wide pool leading to more appointments being made from the first advert.
  • Our service gives you confidence that your staff will be paid accurately and on time – our error rates are consistently well below 1% meaning you spend minimal time dealing with payment errors.
  • We remove the burden and responsibility of reporting payroll information to third parties such as HMRC and Teachers’ Pensions.
  • You have one number to call for Customer Services across HR and Payroll and your query will either be dealt with at the first point of contact or referred to service specialists as required. 

Why Buy our Service

Maintaining effective employee relationships takes a lot of work, time and commitment.  Performance management in particular can often be a very time consuming process especially when disciplinary and grievance actions are required.  In such cases you will need to use a range of policies and procedures to produce an effective result and support and guidance through the process can be crucial.

Our service provides comprehensive advice and guidance that is accessible through the WES website, over the phone or through face-to-face support.  Add to that a highly effective Payroll Service and you will have access to an integrated service to support excellent people management in your school.

The Effectiveness of our Service

  • Schools that subscribed last year benefited from our pro-active absence support and have seen a reduction in absence days.  Non-subscribing schools have seen an increase over the same period.  This reduction equates to a saving of 46 absence days on average per school the cost of which is £7,300. 
  • We process over 330,000 payslips per year
  • 100% of payrolls have been processed on time for the past six years.  
  • 100% of deadlines for the provision of statutory returns to various external bodes have been met consistently for the past six years.

Our Specialisms

  • Payroll legislation
  • HR advice
  • Absence management
  • Performance management
  • School recruitment
  • Disclosure and Barring Service and other vetting checks and advice

Tailored Services

Our services are flexible and can be tailored to meet your individual needs – please contact us if you would like to discuss arranging a tailored package for your school.