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Form of workPeople and Culture Business Partner
Full Time, 38 hours per week
$113,228 pkg (FTE) + salary packaging
Compelling reasons to join us
Strategic and operational internal partnering role working in an organisation with purpose
Great team culture and hybrid work arrangements
Contemporary approach to HR practice with people and business at the centre of all activity
Plenty of opportunity for growth
A bit about The Women’s
The Women's vision and purpose is to create healthier futures for women and babies. The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care. Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health. The Women’s is a progressive and flexible organization that promotes inclusion, embraces diversity and is continuously improving.
Belong to a great team
As a future potential Women's employee, you can be assured that in joining the Women's, is to join an organisation with true purpose and therfore to be joining a P&C team that has a compelling people agenda. The Women’s People and Culture team is responsible for providing effective strategic and operational services which uphold the Women’s values and support the employment and workforce needs of the Royal Women’s Hospital. The People and Culture team supports the Women’s to achieve its goals through the formation of strong partnerships with leaders and employees, building capability, aligning practice to strategy, and integrating with other functions to create value in the provision of human resource management services across the employee continuum.
The role that could be yours
The Women’s People and Culture team seeks a skilled and capable business partner to join our effective, warm, results-oriented and people-focused team. This is an active internal partnering role, with responsibility for the provision of strategic and operational guidance and support to at least one Division. Key stakeholders include executive, directors, managers and employees, along with your People and Culture colleagues. The role provides the challenge of managing varied work at scale, day to day provision of advice, coaching and leadership on a variety of people-related matters, coupled with contributions to the implementation of strategic initiatives and value-add projects. Undertaking this role will see the incumbent have opportunities to problem solve, sharpen their insights, grow personally and professionally, all while making a positive difference to our team and organisation. Being part of this team affords excellent flexibility with a hybrid work model (typically 3 days per week onsite) and there is a genuine openness to balancing operational and personal needs wherever possible.
Your skills, capabilities and qualities
This role would suit an established business partner currently operating as a confident self-starter, capably providing sound advice, interpretation and coaching. To be successful within this role you will need:
- Tertiary qualification in HR or relevant discipline
- Sound experience as an internal HR partner and excellent client service
- Strong business acumen along with an enquiring and analytical mind
- Ability to have challenging conversations to mitigate risk, build capability and deliver required outcomes
- Outstanding focus and care for people and ability to rapidly build and maintain relationships with key stakeholders
- Self-assured, ability read the dialogue / setting, pragmatic, tenacious and approachable
- Highly motivated, growth mindset, desire to make a difference
When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the exceptional in your everyday.
Our staff benefits program includes salary packaging, car parking (paid by employee pre-tax and subject to availability) and childcare (subject to availability), alongside a range of discounted financial, lifestyle and wellbeing benefits provided by our staff benefit partners. To learn more, please visit: www.thewomens.org.au/careers/why-work-at-the-womens/staff-benefits/
We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.
The Women’s is an equal opportunity employer committed to diversity and social inclusion. We welcome applications from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, including those from Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islanders, people with lived experience of disability and people who identify as LGBTI.
Vaccination Requirements
COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement
In line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.
Influenza Vaccination Requirement
In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required. As this role fits into category C of the departments risk ratings, applicants are strongly encouraged (although not required) to be vaccinated against influenza.
Ready to make the move?
For more information about the position, please see the Position Description attached and apply online by selecting “apply now” below. If you have questions or are wondering about the suitability of your qualifications, skills and experience for the role, please do contact the hiring manager. We are looking to secure the right candidate for this role as soon as possible, and as such, will be reviewing applications and commencing our recruitment process immediately. All appointments to the Women’s are subject to the candidate having a satisfactory clearance of Working with Children Check and Police Check as part of on-boarding.
If you would like to receive this information/publication in an accessible format (such as large print or audio) please call our HR Enquiries line on: 03 8345 2080, or email HR.Enquiries@thewomens.org.au
Selection Criteria Essential: Do you have tertiary qualifications in at least one of the following disciplines: HR Management, Psychology, Organisational Development, Business or a related and relevant discipline?
Essential: Can you demonstrate the ability as an internal consultant and partner in the provision of tactical day-to-day HRM advice, and the provision of support, coaching and leadership on complex matters that meet the needs and expectations of stakeholders?
Essential: Can you show solid experience influencing culture through provision of advice and coaching, including the formulation and delivery of culture-shift strategies to strengthen required positive behaviours of individuals and teams?
Essential: Do you have strong ER experience, particularly in building performance, coaching leaders, case managing underperformance and disciplinary matters, resolving disputes / issue resolution, running conduct investigations and closing out matters?
Essential: Do you have strong knowledge of current industrial relations and employment law including sound knowledge of heath sector enterprise agreements and industrial instruments?
Essential: Are you a citizen or permanent resident for work purposes in Australia?
Contact Person Melissa Bear
Contact Number (03) 8345 2863
Closing Date 15/12/2022
