Human Resources Business Partner - #256278

Job Description

Nemours is seeking a Human Resources Business Partner (Full-Time) to join our team in Wilmington, Delaware.

Provides HR consulting to assigned business units on HR matters. Partners with leaders to prepare the workforce for high performance. Diagnoses and solves barriers to organizational effectiveness and high performance. Takes proactive steps to promote Associate engagement. Addresses employee relations matters promptly and impartially. Serves as a resource/consultant to management ensuring HR policies and procedures are clear and applied fairly and consistently. As an HR Business Partner, you will collaborate with our Talent Development team to advance desired Nemours culture and improve Associate capability through 1:1 coaching, workshops, and a variety of individual and team development activities.

Essential Functions

• Serves as a strategic business partner to assigned business units or regions, providing consultation and solutions on a variety of HR related matters.
• Provides effective support to assigned clients in an advisory capacity on strategic and tactical HR related matters and current HR trends.
• Performs all aspects of the HR function with concentration in employee development, compensation, performance management, succession planning, policy interpretation, employee relations, and change management. Seeks out subject matter expertise as needed.
• Identifies opportunities for learning and skills acquisitions that will have direct benefit to assigned location/function.
• Correctly applies knowledge of HR laws, rules, regulations, case law, principles, and practices to employee conduct, performance, and dispute resolution.
• Conducts investigations and handles employee relations issues including recommendations and implementation of corrective actions.
• Responsible for the day-to-day application, communication, and implementation of HR policies and programs at the business unit level.
• Champions efforts to promote Associate engagement.
• Provide change management expertise to all levels of leadership during critical or large scale organizational change endeavors.
• Develops and delivers educational and team development programs. Works closely with the Talent Development department on the development of appropriate programs.
  
  

Additional Responsibilities

• Supports the enterprise HR team by gathering feedback, leading/participating on project teams, developing programs and tools to meet the regional needs.
• Collaborates with other HR divisions on development and delivery of HR policies, practices, and procedures.
  

Performance Skills

• Demonstrates thorough understanding of HR laws and regulations.
• Demonstrates ability to solve difficult problems with effective solutions; probes all appropriate sources for answers; can see underlying or hidden problems or patterns; effectively utilizes factual and intuitive analysis; looks beyond the obvious and doesn’t stop at the first answer.
• Listens, questions, and conveys an understanding of others’ ideas, behaviors, feelings, attitudes, and values.
• Demonstrates ability to establish and maintain effective relationships.
• Demonstrates ability to perceive things in new and unfamiliar ways, making unusual associations and generating original ideas, new possibilities, and new or improved solutions.
• Demonstrates ability to package and market human resources products and services to meet organizational needs.
• Demonstrates desire to set and meet challenging objectives, to find better or more efficient ways to accomplish different processes, and to compete against a self-defined standard of excellence.
• Demonstrates an understanding of HR functions, products, services and compliance, and the effect of the current business climate.
• Demonstrates an understanding of the synergies created when aligning people strategies with business strategies.
• Ability to work in a team environment, under aggressive deadlines, while maintaining poise and a high level of accuracy.
  

Required

• Bachelor's Degree required.
• A minimum of five (5) + years of prior HR experience.
• Experience resolving complex employee relations issues.
  

Preferred

• HRCI or SHRM Certification (PHR, SPHR, SHRM-CP or SHRM-SCP)
• Healthcare experience preferred.
• Change management/organizational effectiveness experience.
• Experience with building cultural competence and a culture of inclusion.
  

About Us

Nemours Children’s Health is an internationally recognized children’s health system. With more than 1.7 million patient encounters annually, we provide medical care in five states through two freestanding state-of-the-art children’s hospitals — Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware and Nemours Children’s Hospital, Florida. Our pediatric network includes 80 primary-urgent-and specialty care practices and more than 40 hospitalists serving 19 affiliated hospitals. We generate annual revenues of more than $1.7 billion derived from patient services, contributions from the Alfred I. DuPont Trust, as well as other income.

As one of the nation's premier pediatric health systems, we’re on a journey to discover better ways of approaching children’s health. Putting as much focus on prevention as cures and working hand in hand with the community to make every child’s world a place to thrive. It’s a journey that extends beyond our nationally recognized clinical treatment to an entire integrated spectrum of research, advocacy, education, and prevention, leading to the healthiest generations of children ever.

Inclusion and belonging guide our growth and strategy. We are looking for individuals who are passionate about, and committed to, leading efforts to provide culturally relevant care, reducing health disparities, and helping build an inclusive and supportive environment. All of our associates are expected to ensure that these philosophies are embedded in their day-to-day work with colleagues, patients and families.

To learn more about Nemours Children’s and how we go well beyond medicine, visit us at www.nemours.org .