HR Business Partner - 12 month Fixed Term Contract -UPMC Whitfield

at  UPMC in Ireland

As a UPMC HR Business Partner you will undertake a broad range of HR-related responsibilities, working closely with our wider HR Business Partnering Team and reporting to our Head of Business Partnering. The HR Business Partner will conduct both administrative and strategic responsibilities. As a UPMC HR Business Partner you will be part of a highly motivated and dynamic Ireland HR team of talented professionals. As a HR Business Partner, you will be accountable for providing best in class HR supporting onboarding, administering pay, benefits, and leave, and enforcing company policies and practices.

POTENTIAL CHANGES TO JOB DESCRIPTIONS

Job Descriptions are essentially dynamic documents, and they should reflect the ongoing changes within particular jobs and departments. Thus, we emphasise that this Job Description is not a static document and is subject to change as the needs of the business demand.

Competitive salary and benefits package on offer at UPMC Ireland;

• Fixed term contract employees are eligible to avail of our UPMC benefits once they adhere to relevant waiting periods.
• Additional annual leave package available
• Pension Plan
• Flexible working opportunities
• Employee Assistance Program
• Death in Service Benefit
• Long term disability cover
• Paid Maternity Leave
• Paid Paternity Leave
• Access to Education Assistance Program

About UPMC
A $26 billion healthcare provider and insurer, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania-based UPMC is inventing new models of patient-centred, cost-effective, accountable care. Working in close collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Schools of the Health Sciences, UPMC shares its clinical, managerial and technological skills worldwide through its innovation and commercialisation arm, UPMC Enterprises, and through UPMC International.
Providing high-quality healthcare in the South East since 2006, UPMC’s operations in Ireland now include UPMC Whitfield Hospital in Waterford, UPMC Sports Surgery Clinic in Dublin, UPMC Kildare Hospital in Clane and UPMC Aut Even Hospital in Kilkenny. Outpatient care is available at the UPMC Carlow Outreach Centre, UPMC Hillman Cancer Centre radiotherapy locations at UPMC Whitfield and in Cork, the UPMC Sports Medicine Clinic at SETU Arena, Waterford, TUS Moylish Campus, Limerick, TUS Thurles Campus, Tipperary, and the UPMC Concussion Network. The UPMC Institute for Health is located in Mayo and the Global Technology Operation Centre is based in Kilkenny. UPMC is the Official Healthcare Partner of the GAA and GPA.

• Work with business leaders and colleagues to create an environment of trust, dignity, and respect, where values and behaviours are aligned to UPMC values and behaviours.
• Be a first point of contact for all HR related queries, providing superior customer service to all colleagues in line with employment law legislation and internal policies.
• Work closely with managers to ensure probationary periods are managed effectively.
• Administer benefits including time and attendance, benefits -pension ect
• Liaise with payroll monthly on coordinating information for payroll notifications ensuring the payroll department is informed of any relevant changes throughout the employee life cycle.
• Case management of internal employee relations matters where they arise.
• Monitor absenteeism in conjunction with department managers ensure adherence to the absence management procedure and case management of the long-term absence procedure.
• Manage occupational health reviews and referrals in line with company procedure.
• Liaise with management on ensuring the performance management review cycle is implemented.
• Ensure employee data is updated and maintained in line with GDPR requirements and respond to requests made under same
• Ensure the delivery of an effective, efficient, and professional HR service
• Ensure HR processes are applied and adhered to consistently and fairly.
• Maintain an openness to feedback on your own performance and a commitment to implementing agreed performance/behavioural changes.
• Carry out your work in keeping with UPMC Corporate Values and commit to the highest standards of personal behaviour in respect of Flexibility, Teamwork and Helpfulness towards colleagues, customers, and all with whom you make contact through your work.
• Behave at all times when dealing with colleagues and customers to the highest ethical standards particularly ensuring the highest levels of dignity and respect to all.
• Perform any other duties that are assigned to you by your manager and for which you have been provided with reasonable knowledge and training in respect of such responsibilities.
• Working with the administrators, ensuring HR systems are updated and maintained.
• Assist managers to embed our internal policies and procedures consistently.
• Mediation and facilitation of issue resolution
• Case management of long-term absence process
• Assist with preparations of audits from external bodies.