Who we are
The HR Dept Highlands and Moray (covering the wider Highlands region and Moray) provides employment law and Human Resources support to small and medium sized businesses just like yours. By choosing to work with us, you’ll have access to expert HR advice and support from our expert HR team including Director Kim Hunter, an HR professional with over 25 years’ experience across a wide range of industries and locations across Scotland, United Kingdom and globally.
What makes The HR Dept different? We’re a small business based in the Highlands, passionate about helping SME’s achieve great success and thrive through offering pragmatic and personal advice to you and your business. We support SME’s across The Highlands and Moray regions.
How can we help? Our services cover everything to do with employing and developing people and will help you prevent people problems or resolve problems when they do occur:
- HR Consultancy
- Talent acquisition and employer branding
- Talent management and succession planning
- Recruitment and talent planning
- Employment law
- Auto Enrolment
- Contracts of employment
- HR policy and procedure
- Disciplinary and grievance
- Performance management
- Training and development
- Absence management
- Appraisals Process
- Redundancy management
- TUPE transfers
- Employee engagement/satisfaction surveys
- Employee Counselling
- Reward – compensation and employee benefits
- Staff Discounts
- Health and Safety
- Organisation Design
- Reward and Compensation
- Leadership development, coaching and facilitation
So, do you like to feel confident that you’re doing all your HR correctly and in the best interests of your business? Get in touch today!
Call us for a discussion today on – 01463 548129
Email us: highlands@hrdept.co.uk
Highland Business Woman Awards
Nominated as a finalist in the Highland Business Women’s awards in the New Business of the year Category. 
Meet the team
Kim Hunter
Director
Kim is an award-winning HR professional with 25+ years HR experience at Senior levels in a wide range of industries and locations both throughout the United Kingdom and globally. Kim holds an MBA and she is an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and has worked hard to build the business to where it is today! Kim specialises in HR Consultancy and HR project management and has been involved in multiple large scale exercises involving business acquisitions, organisation design, talent management and acquisition, change management and cultural transformation.
Laura Thoms
HR Advisor
Laura joined us in 2022 as an HR Coordinator, she is a qualified associate CIPD HR professional, having previously spent 15 years working within Operations and HR in the oil and gas industry, covering a wide range of HR responsibilities. Laura specialises in recruitment and talent planning, client management, employment law and employee relations, she is looking forward to developing her HR career with the team.
Kayleigh Smith
HR Coordinator
Kayleigh joined us in 2023 as a HR Coordinator, she is a qualified associate CIPD HR professional with a varied background in multiple industries. Kayleigh is committed to continual professional development and is undergoing a LLM Dispute Resolution qualification with the University of Aberdeen. Kayleigh specialises in handbooks and contracts as well as employment law and redundancy management.
Looking for expert HR support?
We can help you focus on your business by taking care of all your human resources needs.
Let us know how we can help or ask about our free initial HR review.
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