
Andrea Jane
Consultancy

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Welcome To
Andrea Jane Consultancy
HR, Diversity & Inclusion CONSULTANCY Service
Our mission is to support People Leaders to become fair, diverse and inclusive to meet high equality standards and quickly and effectively resolve your people issues.
Andrea Derbyshire, Owner
Our Clients
- Warrington & Halton Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust
- Wirral Community NHS Foundation Trust
- NFC
- Primary Care 24
- The Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Pennington Choices
- Conexus Healthcare
- The Clatterbridge Cancer Centre NHS Foundation Trust
- Irish Community Care
- Sussex NHS Commissioners
- St Helens and Knowsley NHS Hospitals
- Oasis Community Learning
- The University of Salford
- NHS Sussex
- David Lewis
- The Autism Wellbeing Project
- Better Society Capital
















How we can support you

Strategy Development
Do you need support to develop a strategy to improve equality, diversity and inclusion performance (EDI)?

Attract Diverse Talent
Do you want to attract, retain and develop diverse talent that represents the population you serve and gain recognition for best practice?

Compliance & Reporting
Do you need help to ensure you can meet your legal and national equality requirements and standards?

Managing Your People
Do you need access to professional insured expert advice to quickly and effectively manage your day to day people problems ?
Andrea Jane Consultancy Services
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Staff and Manager Training
We design and deliver bespoke training sessions to meet your needs. The range of training we can provide includes:
- Managing capability
- Managing disciplinaries & grievances
- Managing sickness absence
- Managing bullying and harassment
- Performance development review training
- General E & D awareness
- Unconscious bias awareness
- E & D training for managers
- Dignity at work
- Managing organisational change programmes.
Advice and Guidance
We provide clear comprehensive advice and guidance including:
- Reviewing your policies and providing best practice/model policy guidance
- How to attain best practice employment accreditations e.g. Disability Confident
and Mindful Employer - Guidance and co-ordinating entry in to national equality benchmarking exercises
e.g. Stonewall, ENEI - Research in to best practice
Developing Strategies
We use a robust methodology to develop equality, diversity and inclusion strategies,
and action plans that address your real equality problems and drive improvements to remove differences for minority groups in representation in the workforce, in recruitment and selection, in staff satisfaction, in bullying, harassment, grievances, capability and disciplinaries to support you to meet high equality standards and goals.
Facilitating staff engagement sessions
We will arrange focus groups and engage with your people to understand your equality issues and how they would like them to be solved.
We will empower your workforce to have a voice and input in to your strategies and action plans.
Investigations
We will investigate your complex employee relations issues including bullying, harassment, discrimination, disciplinary and grievance cases.
We also provide investigation advice and guidance.
Leading Change Programmmes
We lead small and large change programmes.
We complete robust equality impact analysis.
Compliance
We will support you and provide advice and guidance to ensure that you are fully legally
compliant.
We can audit and review your practice to ensure that you have everything in place to
meet the requirements of equality legislation including the Equality Act 2010, the public sector equality duty and mandatory pay gap reporting.
andrea JaNe
A Bit About Me
I’m Andrea Derbyshire, the HR, Diversity, and Inclusion Consultant behind Andrea Jane Consultancy, founded in 2018.
Andrea Jane Consultancy is female-led, qualified, experienced and professional with a can do pragmatic approach that helps you to get the best out of people, improve your culture and equality performance and minimise risk.
I have a friendly way of working that quickly builds strong relationships with clients giving clear no nonsense advice and delivering the right skills, and the right service at the right time.
I have over 27 years HR experience at a senior level specialising in in equality, diversity and inclusion. I have worked across industries such as Telecommunications, Retail, The Voluntary Sector, IT and Healthcare.
I have 15 years experience in the NHS and headed the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda across three NHS hospitals in the NHS for a decade including work at a national level and leading the hospital in to the top ten of the Stonewall Health Equality Index and my work being showcased as best practice nationally.
I am a chartered fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD), I also have an ILM4 in Managing Equality and Diversity in an Organisation and a certificate in Equality and Human Rights. I am an accredited unconscious bias testing facilitator a Strength Deployment Facilitator and a qualified coach.
In 2019 I set up the Diversity & Inclusion Leaders Space Facebook group. This is a community for people working on, in or passionate about equality, diversity and inclusion to work together to share ideas, resources, ask questions and learn from each other. To join the group click on the icon below.
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Our Values

Inclusive: United We Stand.
We work together with your people and ensure everyone feels welcome and included.

Responsive: Your Success, Our Priority.
We are always here for you, ready to help and get things done quickly and on time.

Innovative: Thinking Outside the Box.
We are creative and always looking for new ways to do things.

Passionate: Driven to Deliver.
We are enthusiastic and dedicated to doing our best and always trying to improve.

Friendly: People First.
We are friendly and approachable, and we respect everyone.
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Support
Contact us today for a no obligation quote.
We will arrange an initial consultation with you to get
an in-depth understanding of your needs and consider how we can help you.
Short term support can be provided on a day rate or hourly rate basis.
Contact
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