Carr-Gomm Plan Future

Carr-Gomm, National Charity and Supported Housing Provider, Plans Future of HR Software with Select Software

After an extensive and thorough shortlisting process, Carr-Gomm, the national charity and supported housing provider whose HR office is based in South London, chose Select Software as their HR and payroll software provider this month. 

Carr-Gomm has been in business for over 40 years and was originally set up by Richard Carr-Gomm, now 83 and still involved with the organisation and many other charitable ventures.  Today, Carr-Gomm supports nearly 3000 disadvantaged adults and has over 300 housing schemes and other services including self-contained flats, homeless projects, floating support for families and an award-winning client involvement programme.

The introduction was made via IT Shortlist, a company who specialise in matching business’s software projects to relevant software suppliers.  IT Shortlist drew up a list of 6-7 other HR and payroll providers who all held meetings with the HR team at Carr Gomm during the latter part of this year.  Michael Stock, Director of Strategic Resources, said, “As a small organisation we do not have the time to research the IT market ourselves and IT Shortlist found suppliers we would not have known about.”

Carr-Gomm purchased Select HR Insight, Clearvision and Select Recruit to enable them to streamline their current HR processes, reduce their administration burden and give their management teams access to HR information and reports.

Pam Davies, Interim Head of HR, said, “The Select HR team presented us with an impressive array of functions and features within their software package.  We are particularly looking forward to bringing in Select HR Clearvision, the intranet access module and Select HR Recruit, the e-recruitment tool.  The new system will help us to provide a better HR service to existing and future staff and improve the efficiencies within the HR Department.”

Carr-Gomm is an award-winning charity offering a range of housing and support services to 3,000 people each year across England. Many of the people who use Carr-Gomm services have a learning disability, mental ill-health, or a physical disability. Most experience poverty and would otherwise be homeless. Carr-Gomm encourages and supports its service users to work towards their own personal goals, and lead a better quality of life.