HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

Responsibilities Lead Employee Relations Investigations: Conduct timely, thorough investigations into employee concerns, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant outcomes while fostering a respectful workplace culture. Serve as a Strategic HR Partner: Collaborate closely with hospital leadership to align HR strategies with operational goals, patient care priorities, and workforce needs. Drive HR Projects & Operational Excellence: Manage and execute critical HR initiatives that enhance workforce performance, engagement, and organizational effectiveness. Champion Manager Engagement & Accountability: Empower leaders by actively involving them in HR processes, strengthening leadership capability and ownership of team outcomes. Promote Best Practices Across Departments: Identify opportunities to improve and standardize processes, sharing best practices to support high-quality, consistent care delivery. Facilitate Conflict Resolution & Coaching: Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to leaders and staff, guiding resolution of complex workplace issues in a fast-paced healthcare environment. Guide Performance & Corrective Action Processes: Partner with leadership on disciplinary actions and terminations, ensuring sound decision‑making aligned with policy and compliance standards. Oversee Unemployment Claims & Hearings: Manage claims and represent the organization in hearings, ensuring thorough preparation and compliance with regulatory requirements. Ensure Policy Compliance & Consistency: Interpret and apply HR policies while maintaining regulatory compliance and consistent practices across all departments. Support Change Management & Organizational Initiatives: Partner with leadership during planning and implementation of hospital-wide initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and staff alignment. Deliver Training & Communication: Lead educational sessions and briefings on HR programs, policies, and initiatives to support a well-informed workforce. Enhance Employee Communication & Documentation: Assist leaders in developing clear, professional communications related to performance, development, and employee relations matters. Qualifications Experience / Training / Education 8 years of continuing advanced responsibilities in Human Resources service disciplines. Acute Healthcare experience strongly preferred. 3 years management or supervisory experience highly preferred. Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines including compensation practices, organizational diagnosis, employee and union relations, diversity, performance management, federal and state employment laws. Experience in California wage and hour strongly preferred. Bachelor’s degree (B.A.) from a four-year college or university required. Certifications / Licenses PHR/SPHR preferred Other Skills and Abilities Proficiency in HRIS, ATS, and timekeeping systems. Ability to work in a fast paced work environment with shifting priorities and deadlines. Strong organizational skills. Demonstrated knowledge of major areas of employment law to include ADA, FMLA, CFRA, PDL, NLRA, Harassment, Discrimination, Wrongful Termination and CA Wage and Hour. Strong communication skills, both oral and written. Ability to understand, interpret, apply, and explain personnel laws, rules, regulations, standards, and procedures; analyze and make improvements in policies and procedures relating to personnel activities. Benefit Highlights Challenging and rewarding work environment. Competitive compensation & generous paid time off. Excellent medical, dental, vision and prescription drug plans. (K) with company match and discounted stock plan. SoFi student loan refinancing program. Tuition, CEU, certification, licenses reimbursement program. Career development opportunities within UHS and its subsidiaries. #J-18808-Ljbffr Southwest Healthcare System