Chartered (FCIPD) Director, Ditton HR Ltd

Ditton HR is a Human Resources, Recruitment and Training consultancy established by Claire Watt and based in Long Ditton, Surrey.

We have a team of HR professionals who have significant practical HR experience from a wide variety of sectors.

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Claire is a qualified HR and training professional who is a fellow member of the CIPD. Claire has worked in HR and Training since 1994 and is highly experienced in all areas of her field.

Claire is a Psychology graduate with a Masters in Personnel and Development, qualified in Psychometric Testing (Level A and B) and an Executive Coach. Her experience spans across a variety of sectors including the professional services, retail, not-for-profit and charitable.

Claire's most recent roles have included Executive Director of People at Samaritans, responsible for all people aspects of the charity both employees and volunteers, and HR Director at the National Centre for Social Research. Claire has also written for the online HR resource, XpertHR.

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

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Michielle is a MCIPD qualified HR generalist with over 20 years’ experience across the complete HR spectrum. Michielle has worked across a number of industries from Distribution, Media Finance, Investment Banking and most recently in Retail at Marks and Spencer. These roles have taken her around the world spending a large amount of time in Asia and Europe. Michielle is available to support organisations with the full breadth of HR activities and is particularly experienced in employee relations.

HR Consultant

Sherry is an energetic & enthusiastic HR Consultant who demonstrates 100% dedication to leading HR in a commercially focused & strategic way.  She is extremely customer focused and always goes above and beyond the call of duty for her clients. Her professional career started in 2001 specialising in recruitment, building strong, talented & motivated teams and has since structured and led other HR initiatives around Talent Management.

Sherry has worked with a variety of sectors but her main focus historically has been in Financial Services working on specific change management projects within big Blue Chip organisations. She has worked across complicated matrixes environments within Marketing, IT and Human Resources departments and brings a great deal of experience to small business that can set them up for success. Many people have described Sherry as an excellent relationship builder who demonstrates a high degree of empathy with people and is always committed to delivering positive results for all those involved. She is a very people-oriented person who fizzes with energy & ideas under the most difficult circumstances. Her passion is for successful Talent Management and she always strives to get the best out of people.

HR Consultant (FCIPD)

Sue is a psychology graduate and a Fellow of the CIPD with over 20 years’ experience covering the full range of HR services. Sue has worked for high profile professional service firms such as PwC, Clyde & Co, a subsidiary of Allianz global investors and more recently within a charity environment.

Sue provides effective and efficient operational and strategic support and high-quality advice and guidance to businesses on the full range of HR policies and procedures. With a proactive and enthusiastic ability to problem solve, clients have said that she is sensitive to their needs with a real commercial understanding, adding value to their business.

Sue has successfully managed an Employee Assistance Programme and Lifestyle Management Service Programme, the full graduate recruitment process including assessment centres for a high number of trainee solicitors, supported senior managers and partners to achieve best practice and change management within their business in addition to the usual day to day tasks of performance management, employee relations, training and development.

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

Isabelle is MCIPD qualified HR generalist with over 10 years’ experience across the Software and Finance industries and was HRD for Morningstar, leading a team who provided a full range of HR services across 8 European offices.

She is experienced in supporting rapid business growth both through high levels of recruitment and UK and European acquisitions. This included supporting TUPE transfers at all stages, from due diligence, to announcement and onboarding. Isabelle is experienced in performance management, reward, international relocation, managing redundancies and liaising with European employment lawyers to ensure legal compliance.

Isabelle is a thoughtful and diligent professional who provides a supportive role to the leadership team in helping to foresee and solve current and potential future issues within an organisation.

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

Vicki has worked as a senior HR generalist for over 20 years in a variety of organisations including the BBC, St Mary’s University and The Royal Academy of Dramatic Art.  Comfortable working both strategically with leaders and delivering operational HR processes, Vicki is solution focused and has a track record of building relationships and understanding organisations.  Vicki brings a depth of professional expertise as well as a sense of fun and creativity to her work.

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

Corinne is an experienced and enthusiastic HR professional with a strong generalist background.  She is MCIPD qualified with a broad range of experience across both public and private sectors.  She holds a Psychology degree from Cardiff University and has worked in HR since 2001, providing consultancy services for approximately 10 years.

Corinne has excellent communication and organisational skills with the ability to relate to and work with staff at all levels. She provides pragmatic and insightful consultancy advice alongside high-quality policy and procedural work.  She is experienced in general HR management and establishing effective internal policies and practices, together with a range of experience across employee relations, performance management and operational HR.

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

Zoe has many years of HR Consultancy, Management and Business Partner experience having worked with a wide variety of SME's in London and the South East. Zoe puts great value in being able to make strong personal connections and a positive impact within a short time-frame and enjoys the opportunity to see results first hand. 

With a broad range of HR generalist cross sector experience gained through a wide variety of roles, Zoe is focused on providing operational and process orientated support, bespoke strategic solutions for shaping business through recruitment, restructure & redundancy, and metrics based people reporting and analysis.

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

Gemma is a MCIPD qualified HR generalist with over 15 years’ experience in senior HR roles in a range of industries including engineering, automotive, retail, education and consultancy. 

Gemma has proven experience across the whole spectrum of HR activities, including HR strategy, change management, talent management, recruitment and selection, international HR, employment law, performance management and business transfers (TUPE). Gemma is available to support organisations with the full breadth of HR activities and is particularly experienced in dealing with complex employee relations cases. 

HR Consultant (MCIPD)

Mark is a generalist HR Consultant with over 20 years’ HR experience across large, medium sized and small companies, predominantly in Financial Services and also Technology, Media and Communications, He has experience supporting management and staff with commercial and pragmatic solutions in increasingly fast paced, challenging and highly regulated environments.

HR & Training Consultant (CIPD)

Julie is a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development (CIPD) and since graduating in Business Studies, has had a varied career within global Financial Services for nearly 20 years.   

Her roles have included HR Consultancy, Business Management, Learning & Development, Internal Communications, Cultural Change and Event Management, many of which have included working with global teams across different cultures. 

 Julie spent two years living and working in Hong Kong where she was responsible for delivering the ‘people strategy’ across Asia Pacific for a global bank. 

Julie is currently a freelance HR, Learning & Development and Coaching specialist with a portfolio of clients across Surrey and London and is also the founder and co-Director of Chancery Training Ltd, a training company which specialises in enhancing individual and team performance.

Recruitment Specialist (MCIPD)

 Chartered MCIPD qualified, Stephanie is a client-focused versatile professional with extensive experience and achievement within recruitment, talent management, customer relationship management, senior management in small businesses, HR and administration.   Having worked as a senior manager in SMEs and as a recruiter in agency recruitment for 20 years, working with private and corporate clients, Stephanie is passionate about ensuring success for her clients by supporting them in recruiting and retaining the best talent. 

Workplace & Employment Mediator (MSoM, MA, FCIPD)

Noelle Davies is a workplace and employment mediator with 20 years experience in operational and global HR.   She resolves workplace conflict with mediations and coaching, independent investigations together with relevant conflict related training. 

The aim of mediation and conflict coaching is to help participants listen, articulate critical points and move forward.  Addressing conflict or disputes as early as possible will lead to quicker and easier resolutions in a far more cost effective manner than time spent on grievances, lost staff hours or in the worst case scenario, employment tribunals. 

As an experienced HR professional, Noelle is well versed in all aspects of workplace disputes and investigations from compensation to reorganisations and strategic disagreements. Furthermore, after two decades of managing and supporting conflicts in a major corporate, Noelle is excited to be able to support diverse industries and companies to deal with conflict in new and constructive ways. 

Employment Lawyer

Ditton HR has an association with an independent employment law solicitor, Asha Kumar of Keystone Law, who is a highly experienced Employment Lawyer having worked in a City law firm for 18 years and who was promoted to partnership in 2012.  Whilst specialising in employment law, she can assist in connecting people to a full array of legal services.

Asha helps individuals and corporates with all aspects of employment law.  She has extensive experience in helping individuals on leaving employment and on joining new employment.  She deals with workplace grievances and disciplinary matters.  Her advice to companies, includes assisting start-ups, Entrepreneurs, SMEs and larger corporates in need of day-to-day employment law advice throughout the employment life-cycle from recruitment, during employment and on termination. 

Occupational Psychologist

Emma is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist with twenty years of behavioural assessment and development experience; she now specialises in career management.  Accredited to Level A and B in the BPS Certificate of Competence, Emma uses a wide range of psychometrics (e.g. Myers Briggs, WAVE, OPQ) for assessment from graduate to executive level.  Emma has worked with clients in both the private and public sector, including Local Government, National Grid and most recently the British Olympic Swimming Team.

Emma designs bespoke assessment solutions and supports her clients to deliver them effectively. Product design experience includes competency based interviews, assessment centre exercises, assessor training materials and evaluation tools. 

Emma’s particular area of interest is in supporting individuals through career transition, outplacement and clients who are exploring ways to re-enter the workplace after a career break.  In partnership, she works to understand each person’s unique situation and then helps them to identify and act upon their key strengths in order to come up with a well-balanced career plan.

HR Administrator (CIPD)

Claire is an experienced, level 5 CIPD qualified, HR administrator providing robust support to a range of stakeholders; HR colleagues, senior managers, the Board and wider workforce. Offering timely and accurate advice and office administration in a range of settings which have included global corporates to smaller businesses. A natural relationship builder, adapting to a range of requirements and expectations. Adept at working with policy, legislation and experienced in managing confidential business & HR data. 

Governance Consultant / Executive Assistant

Helen has been working with senior executives and boards on corporate governance matters for over 20 years following a successful career in the financial services sector.  Her excellent communication and organisation skills have ensured confident project management in a variety of situations including NED recruitment, board development, disciplinary investigation, organisational change, policy review and company closure.  Helen's experience spans public, private and third sector organisations from SMEs to multinationals.