HR BUSINESS PARTNER
About The Position
Care for our community, and your career. This position supports Samaritan Medical Center's Human Resources department. The HR Business Partner will understand the business and the teams they support, making proactive recommendations on talent-related issues and initiatives. They will coach leaders on best practices for employee engagement, communication, and performance management, and provide consultative support on HR policies and practices. This role collaborates with management to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention. The HR Business Partner ensures compliance with HR policies, procedures, collective bargaining agreements, laws, standards, and government regulations, while maintaining relationships with union leadership. They will proactively manage and resolve employee and labor relations issues, conduct workplace investigations, and initiate corrective actions. Responsibilities also include coordinating unemployment claims, representing the company at hearings, ensuring accurate reporting of workplace accidents and incidents, assisting supervisors with investigations, and managing the on-the-job accident process, including return to work. The role also involves working with management to ensure OSHA compliance, supporting training initiatives, assisting with new hire orientation, and managing the off-boarding process, including analyzing data and making recommendations for improvement.
Requirements
- Bachelor's Degree in Human Resources or related field.
- At least 2 years of labor and employee relations experience in Human Resources in a unionized setting.
- Knowledge of Federal, NY State and employment law and compliance issues is required.
Responsibilities
- Understand the business and the teams you support and make proactive recommendations on talent related issues and initiatives.
- Coach leaders at all levels in the organization on best practices around employee engagement, communication and performance management.
- Provide consultative support to the business on all HR policies and practices.
- Collaborates with business unit management to improve work relationships, build morale, and increase productivity and retention.
- Partners with business units to ensure compliance with various Human resources policies, procedures, current collective bargaining agreements, laws, standards, and government regulations.
- Maintains a relationship with union leadership at the business unit level.
- Proactively manages and resolves employee and labor relations issues such as harassment allegations, employee disputes, and employee misconduct. When appropriate, conducts thorough workplace investigations to ensure appropriate response. Initiates corrective action as indicated.
- Coordinates unemployment claims and represents the company as needed for hearings.
- Ensures accurate and timely workplace accident and incident reporting. Assists supervisors in conducting investigations. Responsible for working with injured employees and business unit’s management regarding on-the-job accident process compliance including return to work.
- Works with site management to ensure compliance with OSHA regulations.
- Supports training to assigned business units by collaborating with Learning and Development staff. Assists in conducting new hire orientation.
- Manages off-boarding process, analyze data and make recommendations to the management team for corrective action and continuous improvement.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
