Overview As Employee Relations Partner, you will support leaders across Baptist Health Care by guiding escalated performance management, investigations, and employee engagement initiatives. You help ensure consistent policy application, data-driven HR insights, and compliant resolution of disputes in a large health system. You will partner with HR and legal teams to drive culture, engagement, and workforce experience initiatives. This role offers influence over policy development, climate surveys, and reward activities that align with our mission and strategic goals.
Responsibilities- Conduct escalated internal investigations with thorough documentation and objective handling
- Provide consultation on disciplinary actions, performance management, and termination/exit processes
- Advise on EEO, wage and hour, harassment, ADA, discrimination, FMLA issues to ensure compliant resolutions
- Identify trends in workforce life cycle and contribute to policy/process updates
- Manage unemployment claims processing and hearings
- Foster relationships across all levels to enhance culture and engagement
- Support organization-wide reward/recognition activities and climate surveys
- Develop insights from HR data to inform process improvements and strategic plans
- Collaborate with HRBPs and counsel to ensure alignment with business objectives
Key requirements- 5 years of HR experience at senior generalist/employee relations level
- Bachelor degree in Business Administration or related field
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, SPHR or CHHR (preferred)
- strong communication and coaching abilities
- relationship-building across all levels
- conflict resolution and critical thinking
- HR data analysis and reporting
- investigations case management
- unemployment claims processing
