HR Generalist - Healthcare (Remote)

Why Join Valley Medical and Wellness?

At Valley Medical and Wellness, you won’t be limited to one narrow area of HR. You’ll work across the full employee lifecycle, take ownership of meaningful projects, and see the direct impact of your contributions on employees, leaders, and the organization.
We are a growing, entrepreneurial healthcare organization where ideas are welcomed, improvements can be implemented quickly, and people who take initiative are trusted with real responsibility. You’ll work closely with experienced senior leadership while gaining broad exposure to recruiting, onboarding, employee relations, benefits, leave administration, compliance, payroll, auditing, and process improvement.
For the right person who demonstrates strong performance, initiative, sound judgment, and alignment with our culture, this role also offers meaningful opportunities for continued professional growth and expanded responsibility.
The HR Generalist performs professional-level, hands-on human resources work across the employee lifecycle. This role is responsible for accurate and timely execution of recruiting, onboarding, employee records, benefits, leave administration, compliance, reporting, audits, performance-process support, and payroll backup activities. The HR Generalist serves as a responsive resource to employees and leaders while maintaining confidentiality, sound judgment, and consistent follow-through.

Success requires strong organization, attention to detail, comfort working across multiple HR and vendor systems, and the ability to identify gaps, complete quality checks, and move work to completion. Senior leadership remains closely involved in significant employee-relations matters, terminations, legal discussions, and final policy or business decisions.
Recruitment and Hiring

Recruitment coordination: Manager partnership: Work with hiring leaders to clarify job requirements, competencies, schedules, and selection criteria.
Prepare offer documentation and coordinate background checks, drug screens, references, required authorizations, and other hiring contingencies.
Hiring records: Maintain complete applicant and selection documentation and support compliant, consistent hiring practices.
Onboarding, Orientation, and Training Administration

Own and monitor the onboarding checklist from accepted offer through successful completion of all pre-employment and new-hire requirements.
New-hire orientation: Conduct HR orientation, benefits enrollment support, policy review, required acknowledgments, I-9 completion, and culture and workplace-expectation training.
Training coordination: Assign and track required training, follow up on overdue items, maintain training records, and partner with operational trainers and leaders.
Process improvement: Employee Relations and Performance Support

escalate sensitive or higher-risk matters appropriately.
Gather relevant facts, maintain organized records, prepare timelines and summaries, and support workplace investigations under senior HR direction.
Performance processes: Assist leaders with coaching documentation, corrective actions, performance improvement plans, and follow-up tracking to ensure required steps are completed.
Help facilitate constructive communication and resolution of routine workplace concerns while applying policy consistently.
Coordinate closely with senior leadership on significant employee-relations matters, terminations, accommodations, legal issues, and decisions with organizational risk.
Administer and track FMLA, Minnesota Paid Leave, ESST, disability, workers’ compensation, accommodations, and other applicable federal, state, and company leave programs.
Data reconciliation: Audit employee, benefits, leave, payroll, and HRIS data for accuracy and promptly resolve discrepancies.
Support compliance with applicable federal, state, and local employment laws and healthcare workplace requirements.
HRIS and personnel records: Maintain complete, accurate, and confidential electronic personnel files and HRIS records, including status, compensation, credential, training, and separation documentation.
Routine audits and quality checks: Perform scheduled audits of personnel files, I-9s, onboarding records, payroll changes, benefits elections, leave records, training completion, credentials, and HR workflows.
Regulatory reporting: Metrics and follow-up: Prepare recurring HR reports and trackers, identify missing or overdue items, communicate findings, and verify that corrective actions are completed.
Policy and HR Operations

Policies and procedures: Draft, update, communicate, and consistently apply HR policies, procedures, forms, templates, and manager guidance.
Daily HR operations: Manage assigned HR inboxes, employee requests, deadlines, recurring tasks, and follow-ups with a high level of responsiveness and ownership.
Partner with Operations, Clinical, Laboratory, Training, Finance, and external vendors to complete HR-related work and resolve process gaps.
Support occupational health and safety initiatives, required training, incident documentation, and corrective-action tracking.
Injury and claim coordination: Bachelor’s degree in Human Resources, Business Administration, Psychology, or a related field; equivalent relevant education and progressively responsible HR experience may be considered.
Three or more years of broad HR generalist, coordinator, or specialist experience with demonstrated ownership of administrative HR processes.
HR knowledge: Working knowledge of employment law, employee relations, onboarding, benefits, leave administration, performance management, recordkeeping, and compliance.
Technology: Proficiency with HRIS, payroll, Microsoft Office, and workflow-tracking tools; Judgment: High integrity, professionalism, discretion, and ability to protect confidential and sensitive information.
Certification: PHR, SHRM-CP, or comparable HR certification.
Process improvement: Experience creating efficient workflows, audit tools, dashboards, standard operating procedures, or HR process automation.
Payroll and benefits: Monday – Friday (Hybrid) – 2 days remote, 3 days in office
Ability to travel to other VMW locations as needed.
Actual compensation may fall slightly above or below this range based on qualifications, relevant experience, education, demonstrated competencies, internal equity, and organizational needs.
Employment with Valley Medical and Wellness is contingent upon successfully completing all required pre-employment screening, including a background check and drug screening, in accordance with company policy and applicable law.
Medical
Dental
Paid Time Off and Holiday Pay
FSA/HSA Life Insurance
Employee Assistance Program