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HR Consultants for Coventry Employers, Starters Through to Leavers

SafeWise are HR consultants for Coventry businesses that have people to manage and nobody whose actual job that is. You get a named advisor, unlimited advice by phone and email, and Omnia, our HR system, which carries the employee lifecycle from starters through to leavers. Local, in practice, means knowing who you are ringing and getting an answer inside 24 hours.

The Contract Has to Be There on Day One

A written statement of employment particulars is a day one right. Since April 2020 the Employment Rights Act 1996 has required it to be given on or before the first day of work, and it covers workers as well as employees. Small businesses miss it by accident all the time, because the person starting on Monday was only confirmed on Friday. Then three weeks pass, the contract still is not signed, and nobody wants to bring it up.

Omnia builds the contract from the employee record you already hold and sends it out to be signed online. The signed copy lands back against that person with a date stamp on it, which is where you will want it when somebody queries what was agreed.

Probation Stops Protecting You at Six Months

Our note of 21/07/2026 on probation sets out what the Employment Rights Act 2025 does to it. Any employee with six months of continuous service by 1 January 2027 qualifies for unfair dismissal protection from that date, so anyone recruited on or after 1 July 2026 can reach it while still inside a contractual probation period. A probation clause does not remove the duty to follow a fair procedure. Our advice is a three month probationary period, which leaves room to extend it and still be inside six months. Book the reviews early rather than in the final week, and write conversations up while they are fresh.

Everything a Starter Signs Becomes the Leaver File

Both ends of employment are the same documents read at different times. Exits go wrong because of what nobody wrote down at the start: an unsigned contract, a handbook nobody issued, a probation review held in a corridor, notice periods two people remember differently.

A contract of employment and an employee handbook written around your business
Contracts built from the record you already hold and sent out for signing online
The signed copy stored against that person, date stamped
Staff notified automatically when one of your policies changes
Return to work forms completed in the system rather than left in a drawer
Reports you can download when somebody asks what happened and when

Handling a Leaver So It Stays Handled

Resignation, redundancy or dismissal, the same questions come up. What notice is owed, what holiday is left to pay, what you can safely put in a reference, and what you keep once they have gone. Your advisor works through it with you before you say anything to the employee, while it is still cheap to change your mind.

A claim can land months after somebody's last day, and by then the only account of what happened is the one in their file.

You take it as a monthly HR membership: a dedicated advisor, unlimited telephone and email advice, an initial consultation with an HR action plan, and a six month review in your first year. If the safety side needs covering too, there are our health and safety consultants in Coventry. SafeWise Health, Safety & HR Advisors Ltd have advised employers since 2012.

Coventry HR support, from the first contract to the last day.

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Day One, Not Week Three:
The written statement is a day one right under the Employment Rights Act 1996. Omnia gets the contract out and signed before a new starter has finished their first morning.

Probation Needs Watching Now:
Anyone recruited from 01/07/2026 can reach unfair dismissal protection at six months of service from January 2027, probation clause or not.

Local Means Reachable:
You get a named advisor and a reply inside 24 hours, which counts for more than how far away the office is.

The File Outlives the Job:
Contracts, policies and return to work forms stay against the employee, date stamped, long after the last day.

Ask Us About Your Next Starter

Ring 01922 279 129 and we will price it on your headcount and how long you want the cover for, or leave your details below and you will hear from an advisor within 24 hours.

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