People & Culture Business Partner - VIC

At Estia Health, we're more than just a workplace: we're a community dedicated to enriching lives and making a difference. If you're passionate about aged care and want to be part of something meaningful, then we want to hear from you.

Everyday, over 14,000 employees choose to make a difference at Estia Health, sharing a joint purpose to enrich and celebrate the lives of our residents. With 94 homes (and growing), across Queensland, New South Wales, South Australia and Victoria, you will play a part in positively impacting the lives of our residents and their families.

Join us in playing a special role in the future of aged care.

About the role

Assisting in creating a company our residents love, you'll be the face of the People and Culture team for our employees across a portfolio of our Victorian homes in the West and Central North area. No two days will be the same in this diverse role.  One day your focus could be on coaching and supporting our front-line leaders on engaging teams and building culture and the next you could be advising on complex and often sensitive investigations.

The core foundational HR expertise and skills you will bring to this role:

Utilising the breadth of your generalist HR experience and building strong stakeholder relationships throughout your region and central services teams, you will:

• Lead people & culture initiatives aligned with the broader people strategy
• Use your ability to coach and develop employees at all levels to build leadership capability
• Take a balanced, pragmatic and human centered approach to complex IR and ER matters
• Bring a deep understanding of how to interpret and apply industrial instruments
• Drive transformational change; this role will see you collaborating on a range of projects to embed People & Culture initiatives into operations and ensure success and sustainability of new practices
• Be the valued partner to your key stakeholders with an adaptable style that builds strong and trusted stakeholder relationships.
• Facilitate workshops, training and education to home-based employees at all levels in a creative, and interactive way that makes learning fun.

The traits that will help you succeed

• Your pragmatic approach and curiosity to understand issues below the surface level.
• Your genuine care for people and doing the right thing
• Demonstrated application of partnering skills in a P&C/HR Business Partner role and experience working in a shared service model
• Demonstrated capability in coaching and developing leaders to create thriving workplace cultures and build autonomy in people leadership
• Ability to create positive working relationships and influence across a broad range of stakeholders
• Experience delivering change initiatives into the business and supporting leaders implement change
• Confidence to facilitate training and leadership workshops
• Demonstrated ability in navigating complex ER matters within best practice framework
• Demonstrated ability to operate in a fast-paced and often ambiguous environment
• Ability to travel as operationally required and for team development (this portfolio covers from Geelong up to Epping VIC and travel is required a few days per week)

What's in it for you?

At Estia Health, we value you – for the unique skills and experience you bring to the Estia Health family. We invest in our people and offer a range of benefits to ensure this is your "best ever" career move including:

• Autonomy to really own your portfolio within a highly supportive team who are always there when you need them
• Hybrid working environment between our homes and working from home
• Personal Development Workshops and ER Case Study Workshops
• Opportunities to collaborate on a range of P&C initiatives and really stretch and develop areas of your own skill set
• Opportunity for 1:1 Executive Coaching
• Amazing health, wellbeing and financial benefits including competitive remuneration, discounted health cover, retail discounts, paid parental leave, novated leasing, workplace banking, wellbeing counselling, supported legal advice and more

Even though we are based around Australia, our team love to have fun together. We are a diverse team where everyone's ideas are welcome. We collaborate and support each other to achieve we have fun doing it

As one of the largest and fastest growing aged care providers in Australia, we need exceptional people to join us on our journey of providing high quality person centred aged care and services. If this is you, Apply Now

Want to know more?

Estia Health is committed to embracing diversity, equity and inclusion in our workplaces. We encourage applications from people of all ages, cultures (including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples), abilities, sexual orientation and gender identities. If you need assistance to participate in our application process, please let us know.

Note: It is a condition of employment that you will be vaccinated against COVID-19 and Influenza.  You will need to have one (1) dose of the COVID-19 vaccine.  All shortlisted applicants will need to pass required background checks.  If you are interested in a role please ensure you apply online as we do not accept emailed resumes.