Education Services

• Day to day HR advice dealing with recruitment, contract changes, maternity, paternity etc.
• Disciplinary, grievance, appeal, mediation and conflict resolution.
• Managing performance, objective setting, succession planning and career development.
• We are highly experienced in TUPE, acquisition and merger, including the movement of converting academies into Multi Academy Trusts.
• Occupational Health Services are provided by our fully qualified associate nurses with referrals to specialist occupation health doctors and therapists as appropriate.

• Having the right staff to meet the challenges today, and tomorrow, in the right place at the right time to ensure the organisation performs to the highest level.
• Providing modern policies, procedures and frameworks such as pay, performance and capability management that support the organisation ambitions.
• We have extensive experience of organisation development and working proactively with staff and trade unions to achieve this.

• Giving fair, flexible and affordable opportunity to recognise and reward staff contribution, both financial and non-financial.

Working with existing clients we have developed a range of tailored staff development programs designed to better prepare staff to meet the management challenges of a modern school and get the best from the HR environments we are helping to create for our clients. Current programmes include training to support both teaching and non-teaching staff with performance management, appraisals and mananging difficult conversations.

We can provide 1-2-1 coaching for aspiring and existing members of the senior leadership team.  This will be hugely supportive in terms of succession planning for your future and supporting the development ambitions of your staff.

• We have staff who are currently Governors and have been Governors across primary and secondary schools with current experience.
• We are acutely aware of the challenges facing governing bodies in the now and in the future.
• We offer training and support in general HR, employment law, and TUPE transfer.
• We also offer coaching and support for new Chairs and Deputies.

Let us handle your recruitment – our team will support you through the complete process of locating, identifying and securing the best people for your organisation.

• We will assist you in defining the people specifications and core competencies needed for your roles.
• We can advise and arrange on advertising solutions to best tailor candidates to you.
• Offering a range of support, we can help with shortlisting through to suggesting recruitment day agendas and logistics.
• We are happy to provide first stage interview filtering services or other interview support as required.
• After selection, we can manage the process through to completion, including obtaining references, negotiating offers and issuing contracts.

Whether moving a school into a trust or transferring staff in or out of a contractor relationship, the neo:pm team will guide and support you through the complete process.

The neo:pm payroll team deliver an end to end outsourced payroll service that will pay your staff accurately and on time.

Handling all reporting requirements to LGPS, TPS and HMRC, the neo:pm team take on the task and grind of your statutory operational reporting.  Our friendly and approachable team will support you through the process of using the iTrent online payroll portal to submit and process payroll change, produce contracts and handle auto enrolment.

For our MAT clients, time will be taken to produce financial summaries and cost centre structures that match the requirements of a growing MAT.

The neo:pm pensions team deliver a complete pensions service that will give you the confidence that employee and employer pension contributions are correct and compliant. The team will monitor the requirement for the auto enrolment of your employees and support your organisation through any auto-enrolment staging. We will handle all the relevant forms for starters, leavers and change submissions to LGPS and report to TPS via MDC. We will also manage your payments to the authorities via BACs.

Our payroll and pensions system has been created with the requirements of growing trusts at its core. Interaction with the system can be configured to support either centralised, or distributed services. iTrent’s flexible role management ensures that your staff are provided with access to the information and functionality you require anywhere within your organisation. Comprehensive iTrent management reports are supported by neo:pm monthly payroll, costing and finance reports that provide both school and MAT views.

At the core of the neo:pm payroll process are a suite of management reports that keep you in control of your payroll and help deliver an accurate service to staff. Differences reports are provided during the process to help colleagues save time by focusing on areas of change. The core iTrent system provides authorised staff with a complete view of an employee, their contract and their pay.

Helping schools and trusts manage absence is a key benefit of neo:pm’s outsourced payroll service. Absence is recorded as a function of the core payroll service with that information then being available to help the organisation manage and support its people more effectively. Easy to access tolerance and Bradford factor reports put managers in control, with a further suite of management reports providing the statistical analysis of absence by employee, by school and by trust. Absence data can be imported or exported from iTrent to provide for single entry.

Employees can access their pay and employment information 24/7 with Employee Self Service from iTrent.  The service uses internet banking level security giving employees confidence that their data is secure and accessible when they need it.  The portal can be configured to allow employees to make their own personal details changes, as well as offering holiday request and expense submission options.

Built on the gold standard employee data from its Outsourced Payroll service, neo:pm clients can extend their use of the iTrent system to include industry defining HR processes and functionality.    Manage your people and your organisations more effectively with comprehensive people and payroll information by school, or across whole trusts.  Use workflows to improve processes, or to provide audit and authority for change.  Improve and extend employee records across the organisation and provide your people with 21st century access to their information and HR services.

Recruitment within schools and trusts is a two-way process, with your school/trust in the shop window equally as much as the candidate. Neo:pm’s Recruitment Module is a modern HR software solution. The module enables the user to streamline and automate repetitive tasks, allowing the whole recruitment process to be managed on a single platform. iTrent Recruitment allows users to open a job requisition in a single action and publish to a designated career portal. An easy to access recruitment dashboard makes requisitions, applications, interviews and recruitment time frames, easy to manage. Time is saved in many ways, sending information to huge amounts of applicants in a single instance, as well as transferring applicant records through to employee status seamlessly.