Senior Hr Consultant

Remuneration: $122,850- $ 139,559 pa + 11% Super +
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
Requisition ID: REQ460708
Location: Waratah Campus
Closing Date: Sunday 28th January 2024
Join a team of dynamic, experienced, and close-knit HR professionals offering an opportunity to step into your dream role!
About the Team:
The Greater Metropolitan portfolio provides an interesting, fast-paced, and challenging array of work and subject matter, including (though not limited to) , , the recently opened , and a range of other community hospitals, community health services, aged care, and other services, located across the Greater Newcastle, Lake Macquarie, and Lower Hunter regions.
The team is led by a supportive and experienced HR Manager who supports staff to find work-life balance, achieve growth and development, and support each other to provide outstanding HR service. Free parking is available on-site and we are also within close walking distance of public transport. Our Waratah Campus employees enjoy working within walking distance of shops, essential services, and great coffee!
This role will involve some travel – our staff enjoy access to our fleet vehicles for work-related travel.
Your new role will see you:

• Responsible for planning, organising, directing, and coordinating Human Resource and Workplace Relations activities within your portfolio.
• Display your extensive generalist HR skills in this senior role, with a key focus on Industrial Relations / Employee Relations, people management (including coaching, advising, and mentoring), and HR consultancy as you form relationships with and provide high-level advice to a diverse range of stakeholders including HR professionals, managers, and senior leadership.
• Showcase your exceptional people management skills as you lead a small team of HR consultants to success. .
• Reporting to a supportive and experienced HR Manager, this is at its core a high-level HR consultancy role – think of yourself and your team as Business Partners to a diverse range of managers and staff, both clinical and non-clinical, at many levels of the organisation. You’ll be sought after for your advice and consultancy by staff, managers, Senior Managers, Directors and General Managers.
• Oversee, manage, and support investigations and industrial relations matters to ensure compliance with relevant industrial instruments, legislation, and policy including research, consultation with industrial organisations, dispute management, bullying, harassment, misconduct, grievances, unfair dismissals applications and other matters before a range of industrial tribunals/bodies.
• Participate in and oversee change management processes and projects for HNELHD that have workforce and/or human resource implications.
• Maintain regular reporting and advice to the HR Manager on the status of industrial relations matters, disputes, investigations, and workforce change within your portfolio.

If this sounds like you, we’d LOVE to see you apply:

• Possess relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources Management, or other relevant field and/or extensive professional experience in human resources management in a relevant field.
• An experienced HR Practitioner, with a solid background in generalist HR and a proven track record of forming effective business partnerships and providing high-level HR consultancy services to a wide range of stakeholders.
• You have experience within Industrial and Employee Relations, including experience in advocacy and/or tribunal proceedings.
• Experience conducting/participating in workplace investigations, including well-developed interviewing, analysis skills, application of legislation, and report writing skills.
• Demonstrated ability to exercise sound conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills relating to the assessment, review, or investigation of complex concerns.
• Superior time management and organisational skills – and ability to independently manage a large and varied caseload of complex matters, and to provide accurate and strategic briefings, submissions, and advice within tight timeframes.
• People management is your thing – you relish the opportunity to coach, lead, and mentor, and have experience in managing a team.
• You’re adept at communication, including negotiation, conflict resolution, preparation of detailed and accurate correspondence, briefing notes, and reports
• A background or experience in the healthcare industry, government sector, not-for-profit, or other large, complex organisation would be highly regarded, however, is not essential.

What we can offer you:
The team provides full orientation to the wider team, campus, and hospitals sitting within the successful candidate’s portfolio as well as a full introduction to key stakeholders. A comprehensive orientation timetable is put in place to ensure the successful candidate is given a holistic understanding of the role and expectations.
Extensive support will be provided by the HR Manager and other Senior HR Consultants with ongoing support and access to professional development opportunities within the context of a healthcare setting. External education is offered when available to ensure the team is aware of contemporary HR practices.
is a great place to expand your career and grow your skills and knowledge. As a recognised leader in the healthcare industry, we provide a range of public health services to the Hunter, New England, and Lower Mid North Coast. Being the largest employer in the region we can offer salary packaging options, educational opportunities, and support from a broad network of health professionals. With CORE Values of Collaboration, Openness, Respect, and Empowerment your professional life is provided every opportunity to succeed and develop in your chosen profession. Working with HNE Health gives you access to a great range of benefits:

• Sustainable Healthcare:
• Proximity to shopping and other services
• ADO's each month (for full time employees)
• 4 weeks annual leave (pro-rata for part time employees)
• 6 weeks annual leave (for eligible full time nurses)
• Superannuation contributions
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and family members
• Opportunity to work and collaborate with a range of non-clinical and clinical professionals.

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This is a Category B position. Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive for Category B positions prior to offer. All new employees must agree to comply with the requirements outlined in the policy.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (AIR Immunisation History Statement) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of COVID-19 vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement (IHS), or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate, or AIR COVID-19 and Influenza IHS. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Salary Packaging: is beneficial to most HNELHD employees and may increase your take-home pay! Salary package a range of personal expenses including novated motor vehicle leases, relocation expenses, and HECS/HELP debt. Find out more by contacting via or 1300 40 25 23.
HNE Health employees may be eligible for a range of such as allocated days off (ADO) for full time employees, long service leave, paid maternity leave, and salary packaging options including meal expenses.
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