About Us
Courtney Consultancy provides HR, employment law & recruitment support to North West based businesses, and was established in early 2007 by Elaine Courtney.
The company has enjoyed great success to date, and plans to make its mark in 2010.
In the early stages, the company was set up as a recruitment agency, and at that time was known as Courtney Recruitment. However, after just a few months, Elaine took the decision to broaden the scope of services she offered, and in doing so, renamed the company Courtney Consultancy.
No longer a recruitment agency, Elaine completely changed the nature of the business and now offers a more supportive HR & recruitment solution, including helping clients when recruiting by assisting with workforce planning, creating job descriptions, person specifications, job advertisements and more, she would then recruit the member of staff needed, and would then continue on by dealing with offering the role, creating a contract of employment and personnel file containing all relevant documentation, and would take care of every detail, through to the day the person started in the new role. Courtney Consultancy was at this time providing an outsourced HR solution.
Now, after a vast amount of studying and gaining of qualifications in recent years, Elaine and her consultants are able to provide all of the HR & recruitment support detailed on the website, and there are plans to develop this further.
Courtney Consultancy, currently a team of 5 is going from strength to strength and is due to recruit another employee in the near future.
The company has experts with each of the key services areas:
Elaine Courtney, dealing with HR, employment law, recruitment & business development;
Emma Osbaldeston looks after Employment Law support;
Tracey Hopkins takes care of HR support;
Eddy Clarke is our in house recruitment expert & also deals with business development;
And Jess McGuirk provides our administrative support function
The company adheres to the CIPD – Chartered Institute of Personnel & Developments Standards of Professional Conduct. Click for more information
Elaine has a background in sales and recruitment, and enjoyed great success in her former roles, and typically exceeded all targets she would work towards. She has a natural aptitude for HR & recruitment, and enjoys keeping up to date with Employment Law.
Elaine is a voluntary Director of Enable, which is part of the Sirolli initiative, enabling enterprise in the local community.
She is official NWDA Womens Enterprise Ambassador.
Elaine recently established ‘Sefton Business Network’ – a small organisation, not for profit, aimed at helping Sefton based businesses to come together, learn how to network in comfortable surroundings and start to build the confidence to develop new business relationships, with a view to increase local inter-trading.
She is also a voluntary Mentor for NWDA mentoring programme – providing free mentoring support to local small businesses that have been matched according to need.
She is a member of the ‘North Liverpool Business Forum’ which is a group which meets once a fortnight in order to network and develop local business relationships and foster local business.
And recently, Elaine was also selected as a Finalist in December 2009 for the Women in Business ‘Networker of the Year’ award 2009.
Courtney Consultancy was recently selected by Business Link as a prime example of a business which has succeeded, despite facing barriers in its 1st year, and overcoming them only to become stronger as a result – the Liverpool Daily Post ran a story on this and Business Link created a Case Study document on Courtney Consultancy.
Courtney Consultancy aims for excellence, and has gained a reputation for providing outstanding levels of service to its clients.
