Employee Relations Business Partner

Sutter Health•Antioch, CA

About The Position

The Employee Relations Business Partner provides proactive, consultative employee relations support across an integrated healthcare delivery system, supporting two sites throughout the region. This highly visible role involves travel and offers the opportunity to make an impact across multiple teams and communities. As an embedded People Partner, the role advises leaders and employees on employee relations matters involving management-represented and union-represented employees, consistent with organizational practices, policies, and applicable legislation. The position anticipates and helps prevent workplace issues by coaching leaders, strengthening day-to-day people practices, and using field-level insights to inform broader strategies and risk mitigation. It serves as a neutral, unbiased, and objective partner in assessing employee relations matters and collaborates with HR business partners, legal, labor relations, risk, and other human resources partners to support consistent, compliant, employee-centered outcomes. The role also supports organizational change and workforce actions, translates enterprise people strategy into local practices, and uses case trends, workforce signals, and listening insights to help improve leader capability, inclusion and belonging, and respectful workplace practices.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree; equivalent experience may be accepted in lieu of a degree.
Five years of recent relevant experience.
Progressively responsible employee relations or human resources experience, including direct experience with investigations, performance management, and employee relations casework.
Demonstrated experience handling investigations, performance management, discipline, and employee relations casework.
Strong employee relations and employment law knowledge, including federal and state regulations.
Demonstrated ability to coach leaders through complex and sensitive employee situations.
Sound judgment and ability to balance employee experience, business needs, and risk considerations.
Strong written and verbal communication skills, including documentation and stakeholder communication.
Ability to operate effectively in a fast-paced, matrixed environment and manage multiple priorities.
Commitment to inclusion, fairness, and respectful workplace practices.

Responsibilities

Provide proactive, consultative employee relations support across an integrated healthcare delivery system.
Advise leaders and employees on employee relations matters involving management-represented and union-represented employees.
Coach leaders through complex and sensitive employee situations and strengthen day-to-day people practices.
Assess employee relations matters as a neutral, unbiased, and objective partner.
Collaborate with HR business partners, legal, labor relations, risk, and other human resources partners to drive consistent, compliant, and employee-centered outcomes.
Support leaders and teams through organizational change and workforce actions by translating enterprise people strategy into effective local practices.
Use case trends, workforce signals, and listening insights to contribute to continuous improvement, leader capability, inclusion and belonging, and respectful workplace practices.
Support two sites throughout the region; travel is required.