Ruth Wilson is a Pay and Reward specialist who she started her career in HR with the NHS on the Graduate Management programme where she gained her Masters degree in HR Management. After finishing the programme, she joined East Sussex County Council in the HR Department. She has worked for the Council for 10 years and has many different roles within HR in her time, implementing new terms and conditions, manging change and leading on strategic pay and reward projects.
In 2017 she was managing the Council’s temporary agency staffing contract and was responsible for implementing the IR35 changes for the Council for both the agency workers and directly commissioned consultants. In addition to getting to grips with what the changes meant in practice for the Council she also had to work closely with the Council’s Procurement department to identify and engage with hundreds of consultants and the managers who commissioned them. The project to implement the changes took over a year and changes and improvements to the internal IR35 process are still being made today. The changes in 2021 have given her the opportunity to re-engage with commissioning managers and develop e-learning to support managers understand the complex world of IR35