Senior HR Business Partner for leaders across multiple hospitals and service areas including clinical, ancillary and business departments.
This role is primarily virtual with expectations to attend leadership or team meetings in person. Locations include Saint Luke's East Hospital in Lee's Summit, MO, Saint Luke's South Hospital in Overland Park, KS, and the BJC Saint Lukes System Office in Kansas City, MO
Scope
The Sr. HRBP serves as a key advisor to a team of leaders for assigned departments and services, ensuring the alignment of human resources practices with business goals.
Business Partnering
Act as a strategic advisor to business leaders on all people matters
Analyze and synthesize people metrics to guide people strategies
Partners with leaders to influence positive improvements for turnover / retention / workforce stability
Partner and advise leaders on effective employee engagement strategies and tactics
Recommends strategic staffing solutions to improve labor productivity and efficiency including use of agency, incentives and premium pay
Act as liaison with Talent Strategies Team as appropriate in data gathering, workforce plan development, and execution on talent strategies.
Understand the current workforce demographic, labor market, 5-year business plan, and any resourcing concerns
Assesses the impact of strategic initiatives to ensure that appropriate change and transition plans are in place
Partners in organizational changes including:
New business or services
Acquisitions
Department closures
Organizational restructuring
New staffing models
Execute on business projects to support the people strategy (e.g., integration)
Identify business best practices to share across the region or enterprise
New job/position planning in partnership with Compensation Team
Job design (e.g., creating new jobs/roles, building career ladders, etc.)
Job Evaluation (e.g., upgrade level of a position)
Build strong relationships with business leaders
May support process improvement initiatives
Provide and support HR related information, HR goals, and new/ongoing initiatives in leadership meetings.
Triage and escalate delicate and/or high-level confidential and/or acute business issues as they arise to key stakeholders.
Workforce Development
Partner to create and implement strategies for attracting, retaining, and developing talent
Forecast workforce needs including evaluating the labor market, identifying diversity gaps, and assessing skillsets for current and future business needs.
Leader development in partnership with Learning & Development Team
Support and guide succession planning
Identify leaders for development programs
Coach and develop leaders in areas of strengths and opportunities
Guide leaders to self-led resources or other sanctioned tools
Partnering with Advise & Counsel Team (i.e., Employee Relations) to work with leaders on trending employee relations issues or concerns to identify root cause(s) and develop mitigation plans for improvement and prevention
Coach leaders by guiding to available resources for post-event needs and after-action review
Partner on people belonging and inclusion strategies and be culture champions
Ensure compliance with all relevant HR policies and regulations
HR Partnering
Guide leaders to the HR self-service functions or Centers of Practice (CoP) to get the right level of service in the right place or with the right SME
Support people initiatives and programs led by CoPs and help leaders successfully navigate change
Connects with CoP partners to effectively navigate technical people issues
Informs and escalates to other HRBPs/HRMs/HRDs that may be impacted when a situation, event, concern, etc. impacts more than the HSO and/or has a high acuity level or visibility
Regulatory Compliance
Partners with leaders, educators and HR Compliance on Joint Commission or other certifying agency readiness in HR purview areas
Prepares for and helps with information upon requests during surveys
May lead out on or support HRM in regulatory survey HR file review sessions
Partner with Quality and other appropriate departments to ensure action plans are completed timely, due to survey findings
Applicable Experience:
6-9 yearsBachelor's DegreeFull TimeDay (United States of America)
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About Saint Luke’s
Saint Luke’s serves the West Region of BJC Health System as a faith-based, nonprofit, aligned health system committed to providing the highest levels of excellence in compassionate health care and health-related services. Saint Luke’s cares for patients in 65 specialty services across 67 counties in Missouri and Kansas. Saint Luke’s Hospital has been recognized by U.S. News & World Report as one of the elite hospitals in the nation. For more than 140 years, Saint Luke’s has been dedicated to enhancing the physical, mental, and spiritual health of the diverse communities we serve.
Saint Luke’s offers:
- The region’s longest continuously operating adult heart transplant program and one of the nation’s leading cardiovascular programs at Saint Luke's Mid America Heart Institute
- Treatment for complex brain and spinal cord diseases and one of the nation’s leading stroke reversal programs at the nationally ranked Saint Luke’s Marion Bloch Neuroscience Institute
- The region’s only treatment center dedicated exclusively to treating metastatic breast cancer—the Koontz Center for Advanced Breast Cancer at Saint Luke’s Cancer Institute
- Saint Luke’s Convenient and Urgent Care clinics for treatment of minor illnesses and injuries
- Liver and kidney transplantation programs
- A comprehensive maternal-fetal diagnostic and treatment center
- Three Neonatal Intensive Care Units, including a Level IIIb NICU at Saint Luke’s Hospital of Kansas City
- Saint Luke’s Rehabilitation Institute, the only comprehensive inpatient rehabilitation hospital of its kind in the region
- A nationally recognized children's behavioral health center, Saint Luke’s Hospital Crittenton Children’s Center