Manager, Employee and Labour Relations

Position Profile:
**Humber River Health. Lighting New Ways In Healthcare.**

Since opening our doors as North America’s first fully digital hospital, we remain unwavering in our belief that we can change the hospital where we work, the community where we live, and the world of healthcare beyond our borders. Serving a community of 850,000 residents in North West Toronto, Equity Inclusivity and active participation in the North West Toronto Ontario Health Team are key initiatives important to our Team. At Humber River Health, we use a custom combination of technology and clinical expertise to rebuild elements of care. We make technology work for staff and physicians; giving them more time to spend with patients, to eliminate inefficiencies, and to reduce the chance of errors. Humber River Hospital is formally affiliated with both the University of Toronto and Queen’s University and committed to becoming a community academic hospital. Clinical Excellence, Optimizing Care through Technology and Community Connection frame our Research Strategy.

At Humber River Health, we’re not hoping for a renaissance, we are making it happen. As part of our dynamic team, you can lead the way, as we continue our journey towards high reliability care

Right now we are looking for
**a Manager of Employee and Labour Relations** to join our People Team.

**Overview**

The Manager, Employee and Labour Relations is a strategic individual who is solution-oriented, reliable, has a positive attitude and engaging demeanor who thrives in a fast-paced, deadline-driven, multi-tasking environment and consistently supports and communicates the Mission, Vision and Values of Humber River Health.

**Responsibilities**
- Actively initiates alternative dispute resolution (ADR) principles related to employee conflict management.
- Works directly with legal council on formal dispute resolution for grievance, arbitration and Human Rights Tribunal meetings.
- Participates in key strategic and operational discussions and decisions on human resources issues, priorities, systems, processes, performance indicators, human resources and budgets.
- Manages the development and updating of Labour Relations policies and ensures a common understanding and interpretation of policies and of the collective agreement. The manager exercises managerial responsibility of their work unit**.**
- Acts as an integral member of HRH negotiation team, lead in preparing negotiation strategies and prepare and review drafts of collective agreement language. Ensure that negotiations are properly documented.
- Educates management on negotiated contract changes and assist with implementation where required.
- Coordinates the various Labour-Management Committee (s), including preparation of the agenda on behalf of management and documentation of discussions. Participate as a member of the Committee. Actively contribute to the establishment of a positive relationship with the union.
- Responsible for guiding and steering the complaint, grievances and arbitration processes including timely responses at each stage.
- Manages, with the support of the Labour Relations and Occupational Health and Safety Specialist, termination cases and complex employee relations cases by supporting the HR Business Solutions team and managers in building the case, determining corrective measures, supporting management in delivering the decision to the employee and liaising with union representatives.
- Conducts and provide oversight for employer investigations.
- Participates as a member of the Human Resources management team in the development of the Division’s policies, guidelines, standards, and strategies to guide senior management at HRH in conducting human resources activities.
- Works with the Director Employee and Labour Relations to develop objectives, set priorities, and plans for the Division and contributes to corporate HR monitoring and reporting.
- Provides HR leadership with regards to strategy, policy, design, development, implementation and continuous improvement of the areas related to the mandate of the work unit, ensuring that the frameworks, policies, standard operating procedures (SOP), and practices align with and support the achievement of HRH’s strategic objectives and people plans including HR’s implementation plan.
- Provides strategic advice to senior management on various HR management disciplines related to the mandate of the work unit.
- in partnership with OHSW, this role will provide guidance for the hospital’s disability and long-term sick leaves program, workplace incidents and accommodation program
- Responsible for the execution of the HR People Plan, which may include leading certain related work unit projects under this plan.
- Manage the Labour Relations staff and HRPB, develop objectives and annual work plans to ensure that the incumbents work towards shared objectives, plan and assign work and priorities, monitor progress as well as manage hiring,