Our Services
What can we do for you?
Our services cover the full range of HR issues and challenges that face every business, large or small. We have extensive experience working with clients around Australia in the veterinary services industry, and we also consult with operators in other business sectors.
Whether your operation is just getting started or is already well-established, you’ll need expert and up-to-the-minute HR advice, skills, insights, and knowledge to achieve success. That’s where Harmonise HR can help with targeted and personalised solutions that meet all your HR requirements.
General HR Advice
HR and employment law is constantly changing, and it can be a real challenge for small to medium-sized businesses employing staff to keep up. Harmonise HR can support you in all HR related matters and queries to ensure you are Fair Work compliant without the overheads of taking on a permanent HR Manager within your business.
HR Documents
Harmonise HR can provide a range of essential HR documents that can be customised to your specific needs. They include Policies and Procedures, Position Descriptions, Employee Handbooks and Contracts of Employment. While some of these may be available online, there is a serious risk that a generic template will not be fully compliant for your business. A tailored document that meets your particular situation is by far the best solution.
Fair Work Matters
In the year 2021-2022 there were more than 34,000 Fair Work applications lodged by employees against employers. Compliance is always the best way of ensuring that you don’t end up as one of these statistics and spend hours of your time preparing and facilitating at Fair Work conciliations quite often having to settle financially – even when you had the best of intentions for your employees. Harmonise HR can work with you, providing advice, consultation and information to achieve the best-case outcome. You’ll save time – and you’ll avoid stress.
Performance Management
Employee grievances and disciplinary issues in the workplace present time-consuming challenges for business operators. In both cases, Harmonise HR can assist by clarifying your responsibilities as an employer in relation to the relevant employment laws, correctly manage and deal with a grievance or carry out a disciplinary process. You’ll benefit from our experience in providing a platform for decision-making and achieving a resolution based on an objective view of the situation.
Workplace Investigations
Well-conducted workplace investigations are crucial to the successful resolution of a complaint or the defence of a legal claim against your business. It’s important that you have clear policies and procedures in place and that any investigation is conducted in a lawful manner and in accordance with any governing legislation. Harmonise HR can provide advice to help you ensure compliance, or we can conduct the investigation on your behalf.
Redundancy and Termination
These are challenging situations that must be handled with care, fairness, and sensitivity. It is essential that employers understand the legal framework around redundancy and termination. That’s why it’s important to engage an independent HR professional who can provide expert and impartial advice consultation.
Training
Staying up to date with the changing demands of legal compliance and mandatory professional development is a critical aspect of operating a business. We can assist with a variety of training modules to address any HR issue and ensure that your operation remains current and compliant.
Our full day HR Fundamentals workshop provides you the base knowledge and tools as a leader or business owner that you require in the HR space. This is our most popular course.
We can also write and facilitate workshops and training on a wide variety of topics to
suit your particular interests and needs, from Workplace Investigations to Performance Reviews, from Award Interpretation to Navigating FairWork, along with many other essential HR areas.
Recruitment and On-Boarding
After working closely with you to understand your recruitment needs, we prepare effective advertising to attract the right quality candidates. We can act as the first point of contact with applicants and short-list the best candidates for interview. We can organise and attend interviews on-site or remotely and undertake reference checks. When you have made an appointment, we can prepare all on-boarding documentation to ensure compliance and plan an effective induction program.
HR Coaching
At Harmonise HR, we understand that HR challenges can be complex and overwhelming, especially if you’re managing them without a strong HR background. Our tailored HR Coaching service provides personalised one-on-one support to help you navigate your unique HR issues with confidence. We offer expert guidance, flexible coaching sessions, and access to valuable resources, so you can focus on growing your business. Don’t let HR issues hold you back – book a session with us today and empower yourself to tackle your HR responsibilities effectively.
All this means massive timesaving for you – time that you can invest in running your business.
Prevention is better than cure
This well-known truism in the animal care industry is relevant across the full range of business enterprises, SMEs, and NPFs, especially in the HR area. Successful managers look ahead, identify challenges, and establish procedures to meet them.
Fee for service, not an annual fee
When you work with Harmonise HR, there are no lock-in contracts – you pay only for the services you use. Our fees are very competitive, lower than the industry standard. You’ll know upfront about the charges for each service, so there are no surprises.
A tailored solution or off-the-shelf?
One size doesn’t fit all – what seems to be the easy way out can end up wasting time. Online templates for contracts and compliance, automated induction procedures or generic HR software can’t possibly be designed to suit the particular needs of your unique business. Instead, Harmonise HR can tailor the exact solution you require.