Sophie Wood

41 St Katherine’s Mews, Hampton Hargate, Peterborough, PE7 8BA, UK. 07971 925001. woodseo@hotmail.co.uk

Experience HR Consultant
April 2009 to present, NorthgateArinso, UK
 Provide HR advice and support to a range of clients across the UK in both public and
private sectors who have outsourced their HR function. Employee numbers ranging
from 50 to 6,000, with both single and multiple site operations.
 Provide HR advice on legislation and best practice guidance for managers with line
management responsibilities
 Design, review and maintain policies and procedures
 Design and deliver training; e.g appraisal process, handling disciplinary & grievances
and equal opportunities
 On site support for managers handling formal procedures; redundancy, disciplinary,
absence management
 Liaise with third parties on behalf of clients and employees, (such as unions
representatives, private health care, relocation services, Bupa Occupational Health
services)
 Attend client management meetings to provide strategic support
 Work with HR analyst to produce statistics reports for clients on utilization of service,
ongoing projects and HR issues

HR Adviser
April 2008 – April 2009, NorthgateArinso, Peterborough UK
 Provide generalist HR advice to NorthgateArinso advice line clients from public and
private sectors
 Maintain and develop HR policies, employee handbooks, template letters, and
guidance notes
 Provide legislative updates and design bespoke training for clients as required
 Support new clients with project work and review of existing documentation
 Support NorthgateArinso HR administration teams with queries and checking draft
documents to ensure legal compliance
 Provide legislation guidance to non HR colleagues responsible for developing
company software

HR Adviser
October 2005 – April 2008, Education Personnel Management (EPM) Ltd, Huntingdon, UK
 Provide HR consultancy service to schools across the UK by advising School’s
Governing Body’s, Head Teachers and Senior Management Team on personnel
matters (contractual issues, safer recruitment, disciplinary, grievance, absence
management, redundancy)
 Design and deliver training. 2007 / 2008 year included;
o Presentation to Newly Qualified Teachers on the School teachers pay and conditions
document and terms and conditions of their employment
o Presentation to Governing Body on the recruitment of a Head Teacher
o Training on absence management
o Employment law updates for Head Teachers
o ‘Introduction to Personnel’ for new Head Teachers
 Work with Local Authority officials and regional union representatives to ensure
statutory and local policy compliance
 Support and monitor HR administrators

Sophie Wood
41 St Katherine’s Mews, Hampton Hargate, Peterborough, PE7 8BA, UK. 07971 925001. woodseo@hotmail.co.uk
 Recruitment Consultant
August 2004 – October 2005, Adecco Recruitment Solutions, Peterborough, UK
 Generate new business, and business from existing local and national client base
 Work with business directors and HR to understand objectives and working
environment of client to successfully recruit suitable candidates for interview
 Recruit temporary staff for commercial and industrial placements, (interview, assess
and register candidates)
 Develop recruitment strategies to attract candidates
 Market and advertise available opportunities using the most appropriate methods,
including local press, recruitment fairs and flyers
 Sales; cold calling and client visits
 Analysis and evaluation of Adecco services to increase and improve business in line
with company targets and objectives

Shift Manager
August 2002 – June 2004, JD Wetherspoons, Plymouth / Peterborough, UK
 I joined JD Wetherspoons as an associate at a newly built site and within 6 months I
had been promoted to supervisor and then onto management level. Along side the
general running of the premises, (health & safety, stock management and food
hygiene,) I was responsible for recruitment and induction through to training, appraisals
and disciplinary action.
 As a manager at a new site I had to support the development of working practices and
strategies for recruitment, staff training, budget planning and stock control all needed to
be tailored to fit the business at that location.

Sales Assistant
August 2001 – August 2002, Christiane Roberts, Cambridge, UK
 An independent retailer selling designer clothes from across Europe.
 Responsible for buying new stock, sourcing new stock from trade fairs, pricing new
stock, banking, customer care, principle key holder

Professional Masters Degree: Human Resource Management

Membership and ARU Cambridge June 2008 – May 2009
Further Qualified with distinction
Education
CiL&M and CIPD Qualifications
ARU Cambridge September 2005 – January 2008

Bachelors Degree: with Honors Textiles and Fashion

Winchester School of Art September 1997 – June 2001

Education Kimbolton School, Cambridgeshire, UK

September 1993 – June 1997
 A-levels
o B Grade achieved: Art & Design, Design & Technology, General Studies
o D Grade achieved: English
 GCSE’s
o A Grade achieved: Art & Design, French, Geography, History
o B Grade achieved: English, English Literature, Design, Mathematics
o C Grade achieved: Physics

Sophie Wood
41 St Katherine’s Mews, Hampton Hargate, Peterborough, PE7 8BA, UK. 07971 925001. woodseo@hotmail.co.uk