St. Catherine Hospital has been distinguished with the highest-possible, five-star rating from the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. It has had “A” grades in patient safety from The Leapfrog Group for many years! St. Catherine Hospital is part of the Community Healthcare Network System, the leading healthcare system in Northwest Indiana. This role entails leading and directing the HR team in providing value added services to approximately 900 employees. Responsibilities include, but not limited to: advising both management and employees on employee relations matters, participating on various committees such as Workplace Violence Prevention, Safety, Joint Commission Readiness, and Drug Diversion Prevention, Also, collaborates with Human Resources Directors across the system in creating and rolling out policies, benefits and compensation administration, and creating talent acquisition programs that both attract candidates for hire and retain employees. Also, oversee the worker's compensation administration, onboarding new hires, and partnering with the Quality Team in leading the HR department's Joint Commission efforts.

Leading, directing and coaching the HR team in providing services for approximately 3000 employees. Advising managers and employees on employee relations matters. Other duties include, but are not limited to: Participating on the Total Rewards, Experience, and Workday Implementation Committees, assisting with leading the workforce engagement efforts, creating, editing, and rolling out HR policies and procedures, overseeing talent management, benefits and compensation administration, partnering with the Education Department in leadership and employee training programs, overseeing worker's compensation program, leading the HR department's Joint Commission compliance efforts, and all other generalist functions. ---

Leading, directing and managing the daily operations of the Human Resources Department. Coaching and mentoring the HR team, as well as management and employees. Advising managers and employees in labor relations and employee relations issues. Other duties include, but are not limited to: workforce engagement, contract negotiations, benefits and compensation administration, talent management, HR related training, and all other generalist functions.

HR Generalist role with heavy emphasis on employee/labor relations including contract administration/negotiations, project management./rollout. and exceptional internal customer service. Travel to clinics throughout the Chicagoland area.

Responsible for managing the daily operations of HR; and lead, manage, coach and mentor a team of 10 direct reports, coach/advise managers and employees in labor relations and employee relations, workforce engagement, contract negotiations, talent management, HR related training, and all other generalist functions.

System responsibility with 2 direct reports and 13 indirect reports (dotted line) from the facilities. Oversaw and managed all areas of HR: coached, mentored, and trained HR staff, led teams across facilities for consistency in HR and payroll practices and advised management and employees on handling employee relations situations, talent management, participated on the Risk Management Committee in an effort to minimize unsafe medical practices across facilities, created HR policies, managed the worker's compensation program and all other generalist functions.

Oversaw and managed the talent management/recruitment function for the medical center (approximately 6,000 employees). Managed the operations of the HR Department, oversaw the leave of absence program, and handled employee relations issues (using union avoidance practices) for a customer base of 3,000 employees. Rolled out system and site projects, as well as managed the budget.

Oversaw all process improvement methods for HR service delivery for a customer base of 4200, project management and rollout such as the annual performance evaluation and salary administration process, special projects, payroll administration, and employee relations.

Administered the collective bargaining contract including contract negotiations, recruitment, labor/employee relations, benefits administration, compensation and performance evaluation process, created and rolled out policies, HR related training, payroll processing and administration, and all other generalist functions.

Created Human Resources Department from the ground floor (created employee handbook and policy manual, created performance evaluation and merit increase program, centralized the recruitment function (16 branch locations), supervised HR team, automated the payroll function, and all other generalist functions.

Managed HR team, employee relations, recruitment, benefits administration, and training.

Screen and test candidates for employment, train new hires on cash register duties, schedule staff for store coverage, payroll administration, front desk coverage, and sales floor relief.