Human Resources Business Partner

• Permanent full-time opportunity based in Orange as part of our dedicated and passionate People & Culture Team.
• Mentor, coach & support your service team managers - influence & encourage the building of a positive people culture. 
• Work closely with LiveBetter Service teams to create and implement effective HR initiatives to aid workforce performance, culture and capability.

LiveBetter Employee Benefits include

• Salary Packaging (increase your take home pay)!
• Access to our 24/7 employee wellbeing app 
• Supplementary Parental Leave 
• Additional Purchase Leave
• Employee Referral Program
• Fitness Passport
• Service & Recognition Awards
• Learning and Development opportunities, with diverse career pathway options

(Eligibility criteria/terms and conditions may apply for some LiveBetter Employee Benefits)

About The People & Culture Team

The LiveBetter People & Culture team is responsible for the strategic and operational delivery of People & Culture functions across the whole organisation. The team is dedicated to providing a high level of customer service and support to all stakeholders and delivers operational services and provides Business Partnering, leadership and advice across all People & Culture functions including Human Resources, Payroll, Recruitment & Onboarding, Injury & Care, Industrial relations and all other related people matters that impact our organisation.

About the Human Resources Business Partner Role

The Human Resources Business Partner works closely with the assigned LiveBetter Service teams to create and implement effective HR initiatives to aid workforce performance, culture and capability. This includes consulting with the business managers and working with them to develop and implement solutions across all people matters including planning, resourcing, onboarding, industrial matters, recruitment support, talent management, performance management, diversity, wellbeing, remuneration and benefits. The Human Resource Business Partner also contributes to organisation wide HR and People & Culture initiatives.

Some key accountabilities of the role include:

• Understand the service team strategy, the current status and needs, and assist them to develop their supporting people strategy. 
• Ensure the service team people strategy is in line with the broader LiveBetter people strategy. 
• Share responsibility with the service team for the implementation of people related initiatives. 
• Be the single point of contact on HR matters for the assigned service portfolio and provide strategic and tactical Human Resources advice. 
• Take key accountability for human resource deliverables, working with the service team managers and leveraging internal and external resources, policies, processes and systems as appropriate. 
• Assisting the service team to deliver on growth and change targets through active management of resourcing needs, performance management and capability development.

What LiveBetter needs from you

We would love to hear from you if you are a professional and caring person who is prepared to embrace our values of Integrity, Respect, Cooperation, Empowerment and Excellence in your day-to-day work life. 

To be successful in this role, you will also have these skills and experience:

• Degree qualification in Human Resource Management or related field. 
• 5 or more years of experience in Human Resources field. 
• Proven experience in developing relationships at a variety of levels, developing personal credibility and influencing management. 
• Strong analytical and numeracy skills with ability to analyse information and formulate effective pragmatic solutions to meet business requirements. 
• Self-motivated and able to work independently on multiple activities, prioritise and adapt to changing conditions.
• Pragmatic customer focused style with excellent judgement. 
• Ability to work effectively in a team environment as well as independently, whilst enjoying a degree of responsibility in your position 
• Demonstrated ability to plan and lead difficult conversations and to negotiate. 
• Current unrestricted Australian Drivers 

You will be required to undertake and pass a National Criminal Check and pre-employment medical/functionality assessment (including drug and alcohol screening). You will also be required to obtain a NSW Working with Children Check.

Sounds great? What next?

To convince us that you are the best person for the job, please provide a resume that clearly demonstrates how your skills, experience and qualifications meet the requirements for this role. As part of your application, can you also please provide a cover letter of maximum three pages that address the following two targeted questions:

• Please provide an account of when you have partnered with a stakeholder as part of a Business Partnering relationship to guide them through a performance or industrial matter that concerned one of their staff. What did you find the main challenges of this process to be?
• Please describe a time when you were required to influence stakeholders with varying levels of HR understanding with the aim of provoking positive change in the workplace. During this process how did go about developing personal creditability?  What was the outcome? What were the key factors that you would identify as to why the outcome was successful/unsuccessful?

Closing date: 11:59Pm, Wednesday 17th April 2024
Enquiries: Tegan Baker – Head of Human Resources, 0438 346 191

LiveBetter is committed to equal employment opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce. As such, people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This includes but is not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds.

About LiveBetter

LiveBetter Community Services are one of the largest regionally based providers of community services in Eastern Australia. We strive to enable the people of regional Australia to live their best lives. 

For further info about us and to see for yourself the great things that we do, you can visit:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/livebettercommunityservices/

https://www.facebook.com/LiveBetterAustralia/

https://livebetter.org.au/