HUMAN RESOURCES MANAGER

About the Role

Join the Rancho Springs/Inland Valley Team at Southwest Healthcare's Dual Campus Medical Centers in Murrieta & Wildomar, CA, which includes Rancho Springs Medical Center and Inland Valley Hospital. Both campuses provide quality medical care in a comfortable and convenient environment. Rancho Springs Medical Center is a 120-bed acute care hospital featuring the largest Women's Center in the region, which includes Rady Children's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit with an Emergency Department open around the clock, an OB/Emergency Department program providing expectant moms 24/7 on-site access to OB/GYN physician coverage, and the region's only Pediatric Emergency Services (for children 14 and under) provided by board-certified Rady Children's emergency medicine physicians. Inland Valley Medical Center is a 122-bed acute care hospital offering Level II Trauma Services, an Advanced Certified Primary Stroke Center, a Total Joint Center with advanced certification from the Joint Commission for hip and knee surgery as well as core certification for shoulder surgery, and a nationally recognized center for weight-loss surgery by the Metabolic and Bariatric Surgery Accreditation and Quality Improvement Program. Both campuses are proud to be part of Southwest Healthcare, a network of five acute care hospitals and several non-hospital access points. We focus on career development and promotion, where people are at the core of everything we do.

Key Responsibilities

• Lead Employee Relations Investigations: Conduct timely, thorough investigations into employee concerns, ensuring fair, consistent, and compliant outcomes while fostering a respectful workplace culture.
• Serve as a Strategic HR Partner: Collaborate closely with hospital leadership to align HR strategies with operational goals, patient care priorities, and workforce needs.
• Drive HR Projects & Operational Excellence: Manage and execute critical HR initiatives that enhance workforce performance, engagement, and organizational effectiveness.
• Champion Manager Engagement & Accountability: Empower leaders by actively involving them in HR processes, strengthening leadership capability and ownership of team outcomes.
• Promote Best Practices Across Departments: Identify opportunities to improve and standardize processes, sharing best practices to support high-quality, consistent care delivery.
• Facilitate Conflict Resolution & Coaching: Act as a trusted advisor and mentor to leaders and staff, guiding resolution of complex workplace issues in a fast-paced healthcare environment.
• Guide Performance & Corrective Action Processes: Partner with leadership on disciplinary actions and terminations, ensuring sound decision-making aligned with policy and compliance standards.
• Oversee Unemployment Claims & Hearings: Manage claims and represent the organization in hearings, ensuring thorough preparation and compliance with regulatory requirements.
• Ensure Policy Compliance & Consistency: Interpret and apply HR policies while maintaining regulatory compliance and consistent practices across all departments.
• Support Change Management & Organizational Initiatives: Partner with leadership during planning and implementation of hospital-wide initiatives, ensuring smooth transitions and staff alignment.
• Deliver Training & Communication: Lead educational sessions and briefings on HR programs, policies, and initiatives to support a well-informed workforce.
• Enhance Employee Communication & Documentation: Assist leaders in developing clear, professional communications related to performance, development, and employee relations matters.

Qualifications

• 8 years of continuing advanced responsibilities in Human Resources service disciplines.
• Acute Healthcare experience strongly preferred.
• 3 years management or supervisory experience highly preferred.
• Working knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines including compensation practices, organizational diagnosis, employee and union relations, diversity, performance management, federal and state respective employment laws.
• Experience in California wage and hour strongly preferred.
• Bachelor's degree (B.A.) from four-year College or university required.
• PHR/SPHR preferred.
• Proficiency in HRIS, ATS, and timekeeping systems.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced work environment with shifting priorities and deadlines.
• Strong organizational skills.
• Demonstrated knowledge of major areas of employment law to include ADA, FMLA, CFRA, PDL, NLRA, Harassment, Discrimination, Wrongful Termination, and CA Wage and Hour.
• Strong communication skills, both oral and written.
• Ability to understand, interpret, apply, and explain personnel laws, rules, regulations, standards, and procedures; analyze and make improvement in policies and procedures relating to personnel activities.

Benefits

• Challenging and rewarding work environment.
• Competitive Compensation & Generous Paid Time Off.
• Excellent Medical, Dental, Vision and Prescription Drug Plans.
• 401(K) with company match and discounted stock plan.
• SoFi Student Loan Refinancing Program.
• Tuition, CEU, Certification, Licenses Reimbursement program.
• Career development opportunities within UHS and its 300+ Subsidiaries!