Human Resource Advisor

Your role at St John of God Midland Hospital

The Human Resources Advisor provides practical, responsive and trusted HR advice and support to managers and caregivers across St John of God Midland Public Hospital. Working as part of the onsite HR team, the role supports a broad range of workforce matters including employee relations, performance management, grievances, workplace investigations, workforce planning and organisational initiatives.

The Position

• Build trusted and effective relationships with managers and key stakeholders across St John of God Health Care

• Provide practical HR advice and coaching to managers on a broad range of workforce and employee relations matters.

• Support managers to develop strategies that strengthen culture, caregiver capability, engagement and workforce effectiveness.

• Coordinate caregiver recognition initiatives, including Caregiver of the Month, Caregiver of the Year and Going Beyond Team Awards, and work collaboratively with the Mission team to support key caregiver events including Foundation Day and St John of God Day.

• Support the management of employee relations matters including performance management, performance improvement plans, grievances, workplace investigations and fitness for work matters.

• Partner with Industrial Relations and other specialist Workforce teams on complex matters where required.

• Support injury management, workers compensation, flexible work and non-work related fitness for work matters in collaboration with relevant specialist teams.

• Use workforce data and HR analytics to identify trends, inform decision-making and support operational improvement.

• Contribute to workforce projects, organisational change and other HR initiatives.

You will have a tertiary qualification in Human Resources or a related discipline, together with sound generalist HR knowledge and experience gained within a complex workplace environment.

You will be confident building relationships with leaders, providing practical advice and managing competing priorities. You will bring strong interpersonal, communication and influencing skills, sound judgement and the ability to work both autonomously and collaboratively as part of a supportive HR team.

Experience supporting employee relations, performance management, workplace investigations or grievance matters will be highly regarded.

This is an opportunity to join an experienced onsite HR team supporting a diverse and complex hospital environment. The role provides broad exposure across operational HR, employee relations and workforce initiatives, with the opportunity to work closely with managers.

We can offer you

• Salary: $107,200 to $119,100 per annum plus 12% superannuation

• Permanent full-time position

• Salary packaging up to $18,550 on a range of benefits such as mortgage, rent, meal entertainment, holiday accommodation or other everyday living expenses as well as options to salary package benefits above the FBT cap on items such as:

  • Novated leasing 

  • work related expenses

  • self-education and

  • additional superannuation

• A healthy work-life balance through flexible work options, additional purchased leave & well-being programs

• Employee discount on St John of God Hospital & Medical Services and Private Health Insurance

• Employee support through our dedicated free Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Access to a range of Lifestyle, Health & Wellbeing rewards and discounts

• 14 weeks Paid Parental Leave (WA)

• Free on-site parking

• Access to fitness and wellbeing benefits through Fitness Passport

For enquiries contact Alpena Townsend, Human Resources Manager, on (08) 9462 5411.

Please note: If suitable candidates are identified, shortlisting and interviews may begin before the advertisement closes

At St John of God Health Care, we celebrate diversity and warmly welcome applications from people of all backgrounds.

Our commitment is to create a safe and nurturing environment for all children and vulnerable individuals in our care and proactively take steps to protect them from abuse, ensuring their safety and well-being.

Our inclusive culture fosters an environment that is respectful and secure, welcoming and accessible, and unified through our diverse community.