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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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  • Hi Christopher,

    We have myself and a PT HR Advisor in a company of 60, across 2 sites, remote and international. I cover HR, Payroll, H&S and as in small companies lots of other random bits and pieces that dont really fit anywhere else!
    However we are relatively up with good tech and systems that drive the admin piece of our world, and we have a developed and established set of Line Managers, who are relatively self sufficient in all things people management and a lovely bunch of employees who are engaged with the business. What this means for us is that we dont get our time sucked away by the ER piece of disciplinaries and greivances - it is rare to be in formal meetings and all the ensuing challenges that brings.

    If we had a more challenging enviroment to be in then I would be light in resource. However I am very appreciative of the world I work in :-)

    Hope that helps

    Rachel
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  • Hi Christopher,

    We have myself and a PT HR Advisor in a company of 60, across 2 sites, remote and international. I cover HR, Payroll, H&S and as in small companies lots of other random bits and pieces that dont really fit anywhere else!
    However we are relatively up with good tech and systems that drive the admin piece of our world, and we have a developed and established set of Line Managers, who are relatively self sufficient in all things people management and a lovely bunch of employees who are engaged with the business. What this means for us is that we dont get our time sucked away by the ER piece of disciplinaries and greivances - it is rare to be in formal meetings and all the ensuing challenges that brings.

    If we had a more challenging enviroment to be in then I would be light in resource. However I am very appreciative of the world I work in :-)

    Hope that helps

    Rachel
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