Employee Relations Partner

JOB TITLE: Employee Relations Partner

DEPARTMENT: Human Resources

LOCATION: Rochester Regional Health Riedman Campus, 100 Kings Highway

HOURS PER WEEK: 40

SCHEDULE: Monday through Friday, Standard Business Hours

Position Summary:

• Under the supervision of the Director of Employee Relations, the Employee Relations Partner is responsible for coordinating a trusted relationships with the HR Strategy and Operations team, Labor Relations, Centers for Excellence, leadership, and legal at Rochester Regional Health (RRH).
• The Employee Relations Partner will provide consultation and guidance to management and team members on a variety of issues, such as performance management, and policy interpretation, as well as conducts team member investigations, and recommends appropriate actions.
• The Employee Relations Partner has a thorough understanding of and ensures compliance with all applicable policies, laws, and regulations, and promotes treatment of team members in a fair, respectful, and consistent manner aligned within the framework of our core business values and objectives.

Key Responsibilities:

• Conducts and oversees investigations of complex and sensitive HR issues, including conducting claimant, witness, and accused team member interviews; analyzing data from various internal systems; composing investigation reports.
• Proposes remedial action based on investigation findings, recommending appropriate actions to correct concerns based on assessing risks and minimizing liability.
• Provides coaching to departmental unit supervisor and managers in carrying out their responsibilities on team member relations matters.
• Helps a positive work environment facilitating discussions or providing consistent advice.
• Escalates issues and matters to Director of Employee Relations with recommendations as appropriate.
• Applies a continuous improvement mindset across the Employee Relations Partner function to identify and implement change.
• Participates in projects and programs of work as assigned that may include maintaining entity specific or system-wide policies at regular intervals, legal case management, prepares data from internal systems and creates presentations and reports on hot topics or trends.
• Maintains reporting for various data sources related to ER metrics and review to assess where action can be taken to simplify or streamline a process, train managers, etc.
• Serves as a subject management expert on employment laws and appropriately applies information to team member relation matters.
• Consults and collaborate with HR Strategy, the ER/LR team, and Legal on complex associate investigations.
• Supports other internal projects/initiatives as needed.
• Keeps up to date on regulation changes and communicates and implements within the team as appropriate.

Desired Attributes:

• PHR/SPHR or a similarly recognized certification related to Human Resources.

Minimum Qualifications:

• For those hired on or after 7/1/2024, Bachelor’s Degree required, with a Bachelor’s Degree in Human Resources preferred.
• Two years of progressive experience in Human Resources or five years of management, supervision, high-level project management experience in one or more functions of Human Resources, including employee relations and/or employee investigations.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS: S - Sedentary Work - Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time, but may involve walking or standing for brief periods of time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

PAY RANGE: $70,000.00 - $90,000.00