HR Partner

**Schedule**
Monday - Friday, 8:30 - 4:30

**Education Level**
University degree with a focus in HR/Industrial Relations or related.

**Career Level**
5 to 7 years experience

The Faculty of Health Sciences Human Resources Office provides leadership, advice, support and resources to faculty and staff to foster the creation of an environment that is inclusive, diverse, and engaging. Working with our partners within the Faculty and beyond, we are responsible for recruiting a large and diverse number of individuals locally, nationally, and internationally. We support the over 2000 staff members as well as, 890 full time and 2800 part-time faculty members who help the Faculty to accomplish its mission and vision. These are dispersed amongst the Schools and Departments in the Faculty of Health Sciences.

As value-added service partners we cultivate human potential and champion an inclusive culture by: Enabling FHS-HR and University strategy; Collaborating with our community; Delivering service excellence; and Empowering learning & growth.

The HR Partner would provide focused leadership and coordination of the Faculty’s comprehensive human resources functions within their assigned portfolio (Department of Health Research Methods, Evidence, and Impact), working within a collaborative environment to ensure an inclusive, positive and productive workplace culture and optimal alignment of staff resources with continuously evolving needs.

HEI is a research-intensive department with over 140 “continuing” staff, 10-15 post-doctoral and clinical fellows, and more than 150 “temporary-casual” staff. It is the third largest department/school in the Faculty of Health Sciences in terms of research funding per year.

**Job Overview**:
The HR Partner provides a full range of Human Resources management and services and support to designated internal client group(s) within the Faculty to optimally support its diverse activities in administration, education and research.

Jointly reporting to the Associate Director, FHS HR and Director of Administration, the HR Partner provides full-cycle HR support to designated client groups, and is responsible for providing guidance and advice within the Faculty for TMG and staff, in the areas of employee relations, compensation and benefits, recruitment and selection, training and development, health and safety, orientation, terminations, retirement, human resources planning, leaves of absence, return‐to‐work, accommodation, and performance coaching and management.

This position is responsible for ensuring compliance with, and/or advocating for continuous improvements in, HR policies and procedures, requiring extensive knowledge of university policies and procedures as well as relevant external legislation (e.g. Employee Standards Act, Canada Human Rights Code, WSIA, etc.) and best practices. The incumbent partners with Faculty leadership and Departmental operational leaders to inform the Department’s strategic initiatives from the perspective of Human Resources planning, programs and initiatives ‐ providing expertise and advising on the impact of HR decisions within the Department.

**Accountabilities**:
**Employee Relations**
- Serve as a trusted advisor to managers and employees on human resources and organizational issues.
- Provides advice and guidance on employee and labour relations issues for unionized and TMG staff, engaging E/LR partners as required.
- Provides support to the Faculty leadership and staff with regards to human resources policies and procedures, and interpretation of the Unifor Unit 1 collective agreement and all other relevant employment agreements.
- Consults with the Faculty leadership team and supervisors as appropriate when employee issues or concerns are brought forward, advises on complex employee relations issues.

**Orientation**
- Develops and facilitates orientation program(s), packages, policies and procedures for all staff in collaboration with the Faculty leadership team and Department Leader(s), engaging the Organizational Development team as required.
- Advises on orientation issues and best practices, and involves appropriate groups as resources for individual orientation needs.

**Leaves of Absence, Return**‐**to**‐**Work, Accommodation**
- Coordinates and/or advises on leaves of absence, accommodations, performance management, and human right/equity issues for staff in accordance with policies, procedures, and collective agreements where applicable.
- Facilitates all aspects of an employee return to work, including ongoing employee communication and documentation, liaising with FHS-HR, EHS and HRSC partners as appropriate.

**Performance Management**
- Advises on performance management including performance evaluations, disciplinary issues, coaching and mentoring strategies, managing performance improvement plans along with coordinating 360 review process for leadership roles, engaging HR centres of expertise as required.

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