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How big is your HR team?

Christopher

Hiya,

I've just been having a chat with our MD who has said he thinks our HR team is "chronically under-resourced" in relation to the amount of activity we undertake.

We're a GP provider and work across 7 sites with about 250 employees (both clinical and non-clinical) 

Our HR team is made up of:

1x HR Director (at around 0.5 FTE across 2.5 days, but works out at about 1.5 days with one day taken up with meetings each week)

1x generalist HR Advisor (me - 1 FTE across 4 days)

1x Apprentice HR Admin (0.8 FTE across 5 days)

Our payroll is internal and separate to HR although we obviously have a close relationship. It's NHS so we have a pretty large and continuous (!) recruitment requirement. From my perspective it does feel like we're doing a lot of firefighting and never getting much opportunity to pursue things to make the organisation better. 

I appreciate that all organisations are different (and I have my own thoughts on how our team should look and what improvements/efficiencies could be made technology-wise), but I just wanted to get a bit of an idea of how other teams look.

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  • I am on my own (20hrs over 3 days) for a company with 35 employees. I used to work for a Housing Association which seemed over-resourced (1 FT HR director, 3 HR advisors (2 FTE), 1HR coordinator (0.7FTE) and 1 FT apprentice) for 120 employees. We were constantly fire fighting then though as we had so much recruitment, sickness absence, grievances and disciplinaries to deal with. I think a lot of it depends on how good your line managers are. Some need a lot of hand holding but others are very self sufficient.
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  • I am on my own (20hrs over 3 days) for a company with 35 employees. I used to work for a Housing Association which seemed over-resourced (1 FT HR director, 3 HR advisors (2 FTE), 1HR coordinator (0.7FTE) and 1 FT apprentice) for 120 employees. We were constantly fire fighting then though as we had so much recruitment, sickness absence, grievances and disciplinaries to deal with. I think a lot of it depends on how good your line managers are. Some need a lot of hand holding but others are very self sufficient.
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  • in reply to Elizabeth
    Hi Elizabeth - thank you, that last point is one I've been ruminating on quite a lot. We seem to keep on having sessions with them to support their own decision-making latitude but we still seem to end up having to walk point people to policies and walk them through said policies, and also us getting dragged into a lot of operational stuff!