HR Business Partner III - Independence Center

About Independence Center

Independence Center (IC) is an internationally recognized, community-based behavioral health organization for adults in St Louis living with a mental illness. IC’s employment arrangement with BJC Health allows us to offer our staff quality benefits, alongside BJC Behavioral Health. This HR Business Partner role will act as the liaison between IC and BJC Health, offering our organization the human resource expertise in various areas of Human Resources.

IC’s mission is to provide all the services and resources a person living with a serious and persistent mental illness needs, to manage their symptoms, find belonging and purpose, and gain the independence to live a healthy, quality life. If, like us, you believe that every person has the right to a meaningful, caring, and challenging community, then we have a career for you at Independence Center.

About BJC Behavioral Health

BJC Behavioral Health is a community health center that provides and coordinates behavioral health services for more than 8,000 seriously mentally ill adults and seriously emotionally disturbed children in St. Louis City, St. Louis County, St. François, Iron and Washington counties. As an Administrative Agent of the Missouri Department of Mental Health (DMH), BJC Behavioral Health serves as a major point of entry for people eligible for mental health services funded by DMH and is responsible for serving as gatekeeper to the public mental health system.

Role Purpose

Responsible for providing proactive HR consultation directly connected to the immediate and long term business needs of the hospital. Serves as a hands-on, progressive HR generalist who develops a thorough understanding of business challenges and related human capital needs of all assigned departments and functions and ensures alignment of the strategies and programs to the broader organizational goals. Partners with management and employees to provide service and support in a variety of HR functions, with an emphasis in performance management, employee relations, management training and organizational development, compensation and benefits administration, rewards and recognition.

Responsibilities

• Utilizes strong interpersonal skills and abilities to effectively interact with employees and leaders at all organizational levels.
• Monitors and analyzes various human resource metrics and provides proactive consultation to address potential business issues.
• Strategically partners with senior leadership to manage complex business issues including legal/employee relations, regulatory compliance, compensation/benefits, organizational development/effectiveness matters, and talent acquisition.
• Effectively serves as a change leader or champion.
• Manages large projects impacting the enterprise/multiple business units.

Minimum Requirements

• Education: Bachelor's Degree
• Experience: 5-10 years

Preferred Qualifications

• Education: Master's Degree
• Supervisor Experience: Less than 2 years
• Licenses & Certifications: PHR

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and legal services available first day of the month after hire date
• Disability insurance paid for by BJC
• Annual 4% BJC Automatic Retirement Contribution
• 401(k) plan with BJC match
• Tuition Assistance available on first day
• BJC Institute for Learning and Development
• Health Care and Dependent Care Flexible Spending Accounts
• Paid Time Off benefit combines vacation, sick days, holidays and personal time
• Adoption assistance