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CA-HR Business Partner-1032444

Pathways of California

CA-HR Business Partner-1032444

Los Alamitos, CA
Full Time
Paid
  • Responsibilities

    Welcome to Pathways of California’s career website! If you are passionate about helping others and enthusiastic about your future, we want you to join our team!

    Our company is known for an unwavering commitment to exceptional value and recovery-focused, quality care. We are experts in the field of behavioral health care, providing cutting-edge mental health and substance use community-based services and offer a dynamic employment experience! Pathways offers competitive salaries and benefits, comprehensive on-boarding and job training, a supportive learning environment, ongoing education in the use of evidence-based, promising practices and much more! We have over 30 outpatient behavioral health locations nestled throughout our communities located in Kern County, Los Angeles County, Orange County, and San Diego County.

    Pathways is seeking an innovative and purpose driven individual to join our team as a HR Business Partner at our Corporate office in Los Alamitos.

    POSITION SUMMARY

    The Human Resources Business Partner works closely with the Senior HR Leadership (or Director, Human Resources) in supporting geographic regions. The HRBP will act as a consultant to Operations on all HR-related issues, act as a change agent and employee champion, assessing and anticipating HR-related needs. The HRBP develops is a day to day partnership with State leaders he/she supports and across HR functions to deliver integrated business solutions to management and employees that reflect the objectives of the Operations unit. This position carries out responsibilities in the following functional areas: employee relations, training, performance management, onboarding, retention initiatives, policy implementation/interpretation and employment law compliance.

    Acts as a consultative business partner to Operations in order to ensure effective alignment of HR partnership with strategic organizational objectives. Has a clear understanding and knowledge of business operations, culture and goals

    Provides day-to-day talent and performance management guidance to all levels of staff (coaching, counseling, human capital development, disciplinary actions) in order to assess and minimize legal risk with effective follow through and resolution

    Manages and resolves complex employee relations issues.

    Conducts effective, thorough, and objective investigations including hotline complaints and other state and regulatory agencies

    Serve as trusted advisor to State Leadership, providing sound business guidance around human capital issues.

    Build a reputation as a credible and value-added member of the Pathways Human Resources Team demonstrating the highest level of integrity and ethics

    Conducts ongoing training for compliance, development and policy implementation

    Lead programs and projects such as climate surveys, job descriptions, compensation model review, etc

    Conducts exit and stay interviews and provides monthly reporting to identify trends and areas of concern

    Proactively mitigate current and future legal risk through continuous assessment

    Maintains in-depth knowledge of legal requirements related to day-to-day management of employees, reducing legal risks and ensuring regulatory compliance. Partners with the Legal department as needed/required. Ensures compliance with Federal, State and Local requirements.

    Interprets, recommends and effectively communicates HR practices, policies, procedures and initiatives and makes best practice change recommendations for business alignment purposes

    Collaborate with Operations and other HR leaders/business partners to drive a coherent enterprise culture based on a shared set of values and company mission

    Performs all functions according to established policies, procedures, regulatory and accreditation requirements, as well as applicable professional standards. Provides all customers of organization with an excellent service experience by consistently demonstrating our core and leader behaviors each and every day

    Other duties as assigned or necessary to support the program and/or the company

    Monitors all state level/enterprise wide retention initiatives including tracking data, provides recommendations, solutions and pivoting as needed to drive low turnover and employee engagement

    Partner with HR Team for various compliance audits including FLSA, compensation and systems data integrity

    Responsible for responding to unemployment claims and subpoenas. Gather documentation in coordination with field management.

    Assist with preparation and attendance at unemployment hearings

    Monitor leave administration, workers compensation and/or ADA to provide guidance as needed

    NOTE: The essential functions are intended to describe the general content of and requirements of this position and are not intended to be an exhaustive statement of duties. Specific tasks or responsibilities will be documented as outlined by the incumbent's immediate manager.

    SCOPE AND COMPLEXITY

    The key challenges of this job are to be able to support large scale change, support teams effectively, and foster positive and collaborative working relationships between multiple stakeholders; requires strong HR and business knowledge within a complex environment and with complex applications; works in a partnership with numerous departments, e.g. IT, Payroll, Finance, to achieve overall goals.

    MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS

    Bachelor’s degree with 2-5 years of progressive HR experience.

    Strong knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines, including employee relations, performance management, compensation practices, organizational diagnosis, diversity, performance management, and federal and state respective employment laws.

    Employee Relations: Strong experience with employee relations practices, investigations, and disciplinary actions required.

    Personal Effectiveness and Credibility: Proven ability to challenge and motivate teams in an atmosphere of mutual respect.

    Project Management: Ability to lead projects and programs, establishing and monitoring projects plans, and communicating with key stakeholders.

    Communication: Strong verbal and written communication skills with the ability to express and logically articulate a point of view.

    Business Acumen: Understands and appropriately acts upon business operations, including leadership and motivation of action towards goals.

    Change Agent: Enabling and uniting employees to work effectively as they plan, implement and experience change to meet business goals.

    PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

    Master's degree and SHRM Certification