Employee Relations Senior Manager

2 weeks ago

Saint Paul MN United States Sevita Full time
REM Community Services , a part of the Sevita family, provides community-based services for individuals with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Here we believe every person has the right to live well, and everyone deserves to have a fulfilling career. You'll join a mission-driven team and create relationships that motivate us all every day. Join us today, and experience a career well lived.

OUR MISSION AND PERFORMANCE EXPECTATIONS

At Sevita, we believe that everyone deserves to live well. For more than 50 years, our team members have provided home and community-based health care for adults, children, and their families across the United States. Our extraordinary team offers innovative, quality services and support that lead to growth and new opportunities for the people we serve and for our employees.

SUMMARY
The Employee Relations Senior Manager leads the Employee Relations function for an operating group or region of an operating group, including following and promoting employee relations best practices. Recommends procedures and courses of action, provides consulting to ER Specialist(s). ER Managers and operations management on employee relations issues. Interfaces with legal on complaints and serves as link for triaging of issues with employee relations team. This role interfaces with the Shared Service Center on issues related to leave of absence and unemployment. For select operating groups, also oversees, leave of absence, and works with management on programs to increase retention, engagement and morale.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to satisfactorily perform each essential function listed below:
  • Serves as main point of contact for employees and supervisors to answer questions related to employee relations issues or concerns.
  • Formulates and recommends employee relations procedures in all areas of employee relations.
  • Provides counsel to field operations issues related to employee discipline, reviews and makes recommendations on CAPs, PIPs, termination decisions and provides follow-up as necessary.
  • Determines need to involve legal team, following prescribed guidelines or based on independent judgment and/or counsel with manager; Partners with legal on researching and responding to agency claims and legal actions.
  • Works with internal customers to implement positive and efficient processes that are compliant and demonstrate integrity in approaches to employee relations investigations.
  • Provides oversight and subject matter expertise to ensure standardization of service delivery and tracking of employee relations activities across a geographically diverse workforce.
  • Provides direction to ER Specialist(s), ER Sr. Specialists, ER Manager(s)and serves as expert in employee relation practices for the operating group or region of an operating group.
  • Responds to and evaluates employee relations inquiries with a high level of customer focus and sensitivity, following best practice guidelines. Corresponds with appropriate parties as needed during the course of evaluation and research. Determines or recommends course of action and writes timely outcome reports for submission to appropriate parties. Complaints may be related to working conditions, disciplinary actions, and/or other employee and applicant concerns
  • Utilizes case management system data to identify trends and patterns and reports out findings. Updates case reports with details of employee relations issues and the results of investigations.
  • Prepares narrative and statistical reports and makes recommendations for preventing or reducing employee relations issues.
  • Serves as an HR point of contact with Leave of Absence department to facilitate LOA decisions and actions.
  • Coordinates with the shared service center on issues related to unemployment.
  • May serve as main point of contact for employees and supervisors to answer questions and/or provide direction to the appropriate area of Shared Service Center.
  • Performs other related duties and activities as required.
SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES

Will supervise ER Specialists, ER Sr. Specialists and/or ER Managers and is r esponsible for hiring, coaching, performance management, and decisions impacting staff.

Minimum Knowledge and Skills required by the Job



The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or abilities required to perform the job:

Education and Experience:
  • Bachelor's degree required.
  • Seven+ years of related experience required.
  • At least one year in a management/supervisory preferred
  • Ability to mentor and motivate direct reports.
  • Prior experience in navigating complex employee relations concerns required
  • Union experience preferred


Certificates, Licenses, and Registrations:
  • None required.


Other Skills and Abilities:
  • Knowledge of internal policies and external regulations that impact on employee relations resolution process.
  • Customer service focused.
  • Excellent interpersonal skills, problem solving, analytic, and written communication skills.
  • Detailed oriented.
  • Ability to maintain a high level of confidentiality.


Other Requirements:
  • Travel as needed.


Physical Requirements

Sedentary work. Exerting up to 10 pounds of force occasionally and/or negligible amount of force frequently or constantly to lift, carry, push, pull or otherwise move objects, including the human body. Sedentary work involves sitting most of the time. Jobs are sedentary if walking and standing are required only occasionally and all other sedentary criteria are met.

AMERICANS WITH DISABILITIES ACT STATEMENT

External and internal applicants, as well as position incumbents who become disabled, must be able to perform the essential job functions either unaided or with assistance of a reasonable accommodations to be determined on a case by case basis through the interactive process.

Sevita is a leading provider of home and community-based specialized health care. We believe that everyone deserves to live a full, more independent life. We provide people with quality services and individualized supports that lead to growth and independence, regardless of the physical, intellectual, or behavioral challenges they face.

We've made this our mission for more than 50 years. And today, our 40,000 team members continue to innovate and enhance care for the 50,000 individuals we serve all over the U.S.

As an equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, or gender identity), national origin, age, disability, genetic information, veteran status, citizenship, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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