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Consultancy service

Affordable, reliable consultancy delivering tailor made solutions.


The Employer Link consultancy service offers affordable advice and support on a wide range of HR and management issues, combining our in-house expertise with a team of associate specialists.

Our connection to the Local Government Association's experienced Workforce team also gives us a unique position at the heart of national pay and conditions bargaining.

Our offer

We provide a range of consultancy services and products across key strategic themes:

We provide advice, design and costing of pay and reward strategies that motivate people throughout their careers and address productivity while helping to manage employment costs.

We offer expertise in a range of job evaluation schemes and can provide support on how to complete job evaluation questionnaires, including running employee and manager workshops.

We also run compliance audits such as equal pay and equality impact assessments to ensure your systems meet legal requirements.  

Additionally we can:

  • undertake pay modelling
  • work up pay policy
  • assist in implementation.

Employer Link can help you through organisational transformation to deliver people-centred and value for money services, using the best organisational design techniques.

Our methodology utilises Decision Making Accountability (DMA) tool. DMA is a re-organisational design tool that establishes two key fundamental for an organisation:

  • the number of management layers needed for an organisation to be as effective as possible
  • the decision rights in different layers that managers require to be empowered.

It is a proven way of creating an efficient management structure. The methodology also provides a diagnostic to improve organisational effectiveness and develop staff skills.

The DMA approach has helped organisations save money, led to timely decision-making, clear responsibilities and empowerment of leadership roles

Employer Link has collected pay data from academy trusts (ATs) across England, all of which are members of the National Heads of HR network. This information serves as a useful tool for ATs to benchmark their pay against similar roles across England.

Pay benchmarking in Academy Trusts – summary

We have a public sector ethos and are committed to delivering value for money.

Contact us to explore how we can provide the targeted support you need at a very competitive rate.

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Employer Link: Analysis of Multi-academy trust workforce costs

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