Human Resources Manager

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time

**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 4

**Remuneration**: $137,173 - $163,431 per annum + superannuation + a great range of salary packaging options designed to reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay)

**Hours Per Week**: 38

**Requisition ID**: REQ447317

**Location**: Waratah Campus (Newcastle, NSW)

**Elevate and grow your already impressive HR career to new heights as the Human Resource Manager - Greater Metropolitan Health Services with HNE Health.**

**Who we are**:
Hunter New England Health (HNE Health) proudly provides a wide range of public health services to the Hunter, New England, and Lower Mid-North Coast regions of New South Wales, employing more than 17,000 employees and providing health services to over 900,000 people. Our staff provide exceptional care and support across 27 hospitals, 11 multipurpose service centres and 43 community health clinics, as well as mental health, children, oral health, and drugs and alcohol clinical services.

With a dedication to Excellence - Every Patient, Every Time, our people strive to make a genuine difference to the health and wellbeing of the diverse communities we serve, working together to achieve our vision of 'Healthy People: now and into the future'.

The Hunter New England Local Health District landscape is distinct, unique, and impressive, incorporating stunning coastlines, magnificent mountain ranges and rich agricultural plains. We are the only district in New South Wales with a major metropolitan centre, several large regional centres, and many smaller rural centres and remote communities within its borders.

Learn more about us here: HNE Health (nsw.gov.au)

**Your new role**:
Your new role will see you:

- responsible for planning, organising, directing, and coordinating Human Resource and Workplace Relations activities within your team and portfolio.
- display your extensive generalist HR skills in this high-level role, with a key focus on Industrial Relations / Employee Relations, people management (including coaching, advising, and mentoring), and HR consultancy as you form relationships with and provide high-level advice to a diverse range of stakeholders including HR professionals, managers, senior leadership, and executive.
- showcase your exceptional people management skills as you lead a team of HR professionals to success. Playing a large part in the mentoring and coaching of upcoming HR practitioners, while also working closely with senior leadership and executive, this role affords unique opportunity to shape Human Resources across many levels of our large, complex organisation.
- reporting to a super supportive and highly qualified Senior HR Manager, this is at its core a high-level HR consultancy role - think of yourself and your team as Business Partners to a diverse range of managers and staff, both clinical and non-clinical, at many levels of the organisation. You’ll be sought after for your high-level advice and consultancy by staff, managers, Senior Managers, Directors and General Managers as well as the Executive.
- participate in and oversee change management processes and projects for HNELHD that have workforce and/or human resource implications.
- maintain regular reporting and advice to the Senior HR Manager and HNELHD Executive Leadership on the status of industrial relations matters, disputes, investigations, and workforce change.

**About you**:

- Possess relevant tertiary qualifications in Human Resources Management, Employee Relations, Law, Business, or other relevant field and/or extensive professional experience in human resources management in a relevant field.
- An experienced HR Practitioner, with a solid background in generalist HR and a proven track record of forming effective business partnerships and providing high-level HR consultancy services to a wide range of stakeholders across all levels of an organisation.
- You know your stuff - an expert in your field - and find people seek you out for your experience and knowledge of current HR, IR/ER and Workplace Relations practices, advice, and information relating to policy, procedure, and process.
- You have high-level experience within Industrial and Employee Relations, including extensive experience in advocacy and/or tribunal representation.
- Demonstrated ability to exercise sound conceptual, analytical, and problem-solving skills relating to the assessment, review, or investigation of complex concerns.
- Superior time management and organisational skills - and ability to independently manage a large and varied caseload of complex matters, and to provide accurate and strategic briefings, submissions, and advice within tight timeframes.
- People management is your thing - you relish opportunity to coach, lead, and mentor, and have a great track record of managing HR staff and teams to succeed
- You’re adept at high-level communication, including negotiation, conflict resolutio