HR Business Partner

Banner Health•Torrington, WY

6d•Onsite

About The Position

The HR Business Partner position offers an exceptional opportunity to serve as a strategic member of the senior leadership team at Community Hospital Torrington, working directly alongside the CEO, CNO, and facility leaders as their trusted advisor on all people-related matters. In this role, you'll be the people champion for the hospital, with a seat at the table where organizational strategy, operational decisions, and facility-wide initiatives are shaped and implemented. This position offers the chance to join an organization with an exceptional culture and top box engagement scores. Rather than fixing broken systems, you'll have the rewarding responsibility of sustaining and enhancing what's already working well through proactive employee relations, comprehensive onboarding programs, engagement strategies, leadership development, and change management initiatives like the HRO Journey rollout. Operating within a center of excellence model, you'll focus on the most impactful aspects of the employee experience—culture, engagement, and organizational development—while transactional functions like benefits, compensation, and payroll are handled centrally. Working in a critical access hospital environment means you'll have the opportunity to wear multiple hats and make a broad impact across the organization, with the flexibility to be comfortable with ambiguity and variety. Most importantly, you'll work directly with the CEO and senior leadership team, ensuring your voice is heard and your contributions directly influence the direction of the organization. This is a role where you can truly make a difference in people's lives while advancing your career as a strategic HR leader. The schedule is typically Monday through Friday 8am - 5pm with occasional rounding on nights and or weekends. Community Hospital in Torrington, Wyo. is a 25-bed critical access hospital. We take pride in providing thoughtful medical care to residents in southeast Wyoming and bordering Nebraska communities, and we live our commitment to these communities in many ways. In fact, with the recent completion of an extensive expansion and remodel initiative, we are at an exciting and pivotal point in our development. We offer an innovative environment that includes digital mammography, a state-of-the-art emergency department, electronic medical records and a computerized OB system designed to reduce the chances of complications during labor and delivery. In addition, our location in close proximity to the Black Hills, Rocky Mountains and Denver offers a wide variety of lifestyle advantages, including small town charm and limitless recreational activities.

Requirements

Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Human Resources Management or related discipline.
Extensive knowledge and background in talent development, talent acquisition, retention/engagement, and coaching.
Operating knowledge in the areas of planning, developing, training, budgeting and organizing programs and services.
Minimum of three years of progressively responsible human resources management experience.
Extensive experience in a large, complex, highly-matrixed, multi-site organization staffed by professionals in multiple disciples.
Proven experience in leading best-in-class HR organizational practices.
Experience in organizational settings comprised of diverse missions and economic drivers.
Knowledge and thorough understanding of rules and regulations governing employment law and the health care business.
Skilled in leading a best-in-class HR organization and practices; effectively handling multiple conflicting assignments, demands, and priorities with great attention to detail.
Excellent human relations, organizational and communication skills are essential.
Demonstrates conflict management skills tactfully navigating and advocating while building trust and bringing clarity to conversations.
Has an understanding of the business strategy and overall vision of the organization, practicing at the top of their capability.
Possesses strong business acumen, knows how the businesses works and is knowledgeable in current and possible future policies, practices, trends, technology, and information affecting the organization as a whole.
Leadership style and characteristics necessary to effectively perform in this role include: strong work ethic; results-oriented; persuasive and influential; inspirational; able to make rational decisions in complex and ambiguous situations; highly visible; honorable; self-confident and humble; systems-thinker; innovative; life-long learner; courageous; high-energy; integrity; collaborator; ability to work with diverse stakeholders; strong listener; values multiple disciplines and diversity; and passionate about continuously improving and providing high quality care and service excellence to consumers and employees.
Employees working at Banner Behavioral Health Hospital must possess an Arizona Fingerprint Clearance Card at the time of hire and maintain the card for the duration of their employment.
An Arizona Criminal History Affidavit must be signed upon hire.

Nice To Haves

Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) certification preferred.
Master's Degree preferred.
Additional related education and/or experience preferred.

Responsibilities

Participates in driving business solutions, culture development and talent management strategies across Banner and their respective business in partnership with the broader Human Resource organization.
Leverages metrics, data, and analytics for solutions that drive the business’s performance.
Functions as the feedback loop to ensure HR programs are aligned with business needs.
Consults and advises business leaders on broad talent issues that impact engagement, retention, and overall business performance and results.
Participates in planning, aligning design and own the development of critical talent management solutions to complex business situations for assigned business groups that drive performance and integration.
Plans and aligns an interactive ongoing process with leaders in the development and implementation of innovative strategies leading to positive business outcomes around the four perspectives and actively transferring best practices from/to different functions within the organization.
Acts as a courageous fully functioning, highly visible and influential member of the leadership team for business and communities they support.
Instills trust while providing counsel and guidance demonstrating interpersonal savvy in all areas of human resource management, ensuring consideration of appropriate policies, practices and employment law consulting on how labor affects people strategy helping to maintain an environment of high retention and engagement and free of third party influence.
Strong and influential role model for expected Banner behaviors, particularly for those in leadership of Optimizing Organizational Talent, Shape the Future, Executive Presence, collaboration for integration across the continuum, and modeling a consumer oriented culture.
Provides current, direct, complete, and actionable positive and constructive feedback to others, facing people problems quickly and directly-regardless of who is involved and what the situation may be not being afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Builds effective high performing teams acting as the lead responsible for creating appropriate solutions while building strong business relationships, continuously but collaboratively representing the proactive business perspective in the design, two way communication, and implementation of all HR programs with other segments of the HR team.
Effectively assesses organizational talent helping others to do the same in an aim to ultimately drive positive outcomes for the organization.
May plan and align HR strategies for merger and acquisition activity within assigned business units and communities that promotes cultural integration for Banner.
Ability to excel in a highly matrixed organization to establish performance measures, assess and evaluate operations, and work with leadership to assure efficient and effective delivery of clinical and non-clinical services that drive us to an integrated delivery network.
The position promotes system consistency while addressing unique business issues for assigned business groups.
This position requires the skill to influence management at all levels in the creation of an environment of choice in a fast paced environment.
This role faces unpredictable situations that may have significant financial and exposure for Banner’s brand.
This role may be responsible for coordinating services with other administrators, internal legal counsel, executives, and other staff.
This position has constant contact with leaders, staff members, division and department heads, and medical staff that drives system integration.
Customers of this position are both internal and external, including leadership, staff, physicians, medical staff, regulatory agencies, and community partners.
Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards.
Provides all customers of Banner Health with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day.