Welcome To

Andrea Jane Consultancy

HR, Diversity & Inclusion CONSULTANCY Service

Our mission is to support People Leaders to become diverse and inclusive to meet high equality standards and quickly and effectively resolve 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
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How we can support you

Strategy Development

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

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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?

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Compliance & Reporting

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

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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

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, Disability Confident
  •  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, which I proudly established in 2018.

If we haven’t connected yet, I’d love to hear from you! Let’s link up on LinkedIn

Andrea Jane Consultancy is 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.

With a friendly way of working that quickly builds strong relationships with clients giving clear no nonsense advice to deliver the right skills, and the right service at the right time. 

Andrea has over 27 years HR experience at a senior level specialising in in equality, diversity and inclusion.  Andrea has worked at a senior level across industries such as Telecommunications, Retail, The Voluntary Sector, IT and Healthcare.  Andrea also works with experienced associates to get the expertise that you need.

Andrea has 15 years experience in the NHS and led the equality, diversity and inclusion agenda across three NHS hospitals in the NHS for a decade.  Andrea has worked at a national level and has a track record of success.

Andrea is a chartered fellow of the CIPD (FCIPD).

In 2019 Andrea set up the Diversity & Inclusion Leaders Space Facebook group 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 here

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HR Consultancy of the Year in 2024
North West England in the HR and Employment Awards with Corporate Vision

HR Consultancy of the Year in 2020
North West and Most Innovative HR Consultancy North West 2021 in the Northern Enterprise Awards

Most innovative HR consultancy of the year in 2021
Awarded as the Most Innovative HR Consultancy of the Year 2021,
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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're always here for you, ready to help and get things done quickly and on time.

Innovative: Thinking Outside the Box.

We're creative and always looking for new ways to do things.

Passionate: Driven to Deliver.

We're enthusiastic and dedicated to doing our best and always trying to improve.

Friendly: People First.

We're friendly and approachable, and we respect everyone.

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Support

Contact us today for a no obligation quote.

For bespoke project work we will arrange an initial consultation with you to get an in-depth understanding of your needs and to advise how we can help you. Following this a quote will be produced for the work involved.

Short term support can be provided on request on a day or hourly rate basis.

Contact

Get in touch

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