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FusionHR supports Multi-Academy Trusts across the UK. We provide strategic and operational support helping your MAT leadership team to be as effective as possible.

Strategic HR Support for MATs

  • HR Strategy for MATs – Devising a HR Strategy for future business planning
  • Strategic Recruitment for MATs – Help recruiting your HR team at a trust level
  • HR Support for MATs – Providing a critical friend for a second opinion when needed and the support to help you achieve your objectives
  • Academy conversion – Due diligence for converting schools and academies
  • Job Evaluation for MATs – Helping to design a bespoke job evaluation scheme for the Trust
  • Bespoke education-based training for Multi-Academy Trusts – such as our MAT Programme for CEOs and financial managers
  • Data Protection Compliance – Providing Trust and Academy DPO support and Data Protection Healthcheck
  • Wellbeing support – Occupational Health for Multi-Academy Trusts and Academies, Counselling referral service for academies
  • SAMpeople, SAMpeople Recruit and SAMpeople Payroll
  • Fusion Training Hub – an online training platform for all school-based staff

If you would like any further information about any of these services, download our brochure below.

Bespoke HR support for Multi-Academy Trusts

Our FusionHR Bespoke Trust Package offers your Trust the extra hands-on strategic and practical support you need to progress your HR matters quickly and efficiently.

Accessing a package of support which can be a combination of HR, Legal and HR consultancy to be used over 12 rolling months enables us to become a part of your team to support you to raise educational standards.

We support Trusts directly and where required we also support each Academy within it with their HR matters reducing the burden of the workload centrally. We work with you to further develop a consistent approach Trust wide to all things HR, whilst also developing a close working relationship with the Trust Central Team.

As education specialists we know what Trusts need to make progress and our pick and mix approach can include:

 

  • Legal & HR Advice for the Trust and each Academy, telephone and onsite
  • Consultancy support for academy HR project (see below)
  • Interim HR and / or Investigating Officer Support
  • Access to our suite of HR education specific documentation downloads
  • Regular HR briefing sessions
  • On-site HR Training Sessions including HR Skills for middle leaders and Accredited Safer Recruitment
  • Regular mailshots and newsletters tailored to the education sector

For a discussion about the specific needs of your Trust please don’t hesitate to get in touch. Each quote is tailored around your specific needs as we know each Trust operates in its own unique way. Call 01924 827869 to discuss your needs further.

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HR Projects for Multi-Academy Trusts

Our Trust Integration Manager ensures a smooth transition and your nominated HR Consultants will support you every step of the way to achieve the desired outcomes. Here are just a few of the HR projects we can support you with:
  • HR best practice audit – Trust wide
  • Development of a ‘People Strategy’
  • Conducting an audit of existing policies and procedures identifying differences
  • Constructing a plan for harmonisation including a review of terms and conditions
  • Engaging stakeholders, including unions and staff
  • Managing where needed any outstanding TUPE requirements including the on-boarding of new schools to the Trust
  • HR Casework support and related documentation as required (Excluding legal support)
  • Preparation of model policies, policy review and union consultation (reviewed in line with the Trust requirements)
  • Staff Engagement Surveys
  • Assisting with restructures and redundancies

Download our brochure below or call 01924 827869 for further information.

Think People Strategy for MATs

We also support MATS with defining their vision and values and shaping their people. We can assist with:
  • Staff Recruitment, Retention and Diversity
  • Remuneration and Fair Employment
  • Size and composition of the workforce: effective workforce planning and development
  • Staff Development and Skills Needs Fit
  • Leadership, Involvement and Change Management
  • Performance Management: Linking People Management and Organisational Performance
  • Occupational Health, Staff Welfare and Health and Safety
  • Success Barriers

To discuss your needs with the team call 01924 827869. We will be happy to discuss what you are looking for and how we could help you.

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    What our clients say

    We take delight in receiving feedback from our clients. Here’s what they had to say.

    Choosing a new partner is always difficult but Fusion were recommended to us. We’re delighted with their service, everything that has been promised has been delivered. As well as guiding our casework with quick resolution, they have supported us strategically to harmonise working procedures across the Trust and achieve a consistent approach to HR. They have worked with us to improve industrial relations, provided investigation support and carried out a Trust-wide skills audit making recommendations that we could take forward. I would highly recommend FusionHR to any Trust.

    – Julian Appleyard OBE, CEO, Pontefract Academies Trust