Employee Relations Partner Sr
Salem, OR, US
Human Resources
Full Time
Job ID: #18367
Location: Salem Hospital, 890 Oak Street SE, Salem, Oregon 97301
Department: Human Resources
Position Type: Full Time, 40 hours/week, Exempt
Schedule: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday, early/late flexing to round with multiple shifts, primarily on-site
Your role with us
Join a highly engaged and mission-driven Employee Relations team that thrives on collaboration, adaptability, and human connection. As a Senior Employee Relations Partner, you will serve as a trusted subject-matter expert and strategic resource to frontline and senior leaders across assigned service lines.
You will independently lead highly complex investigations, assess organizational and legal risk, and provide strategic recommendations aligned with employment laws, policies, and best practices. You will also coach leaders through complex employee relations matters, oversee provider-related concerns, facilitate conflict resolution, and support labor relations and grievance resolution.
Each partner independently manages assigned service lines while collaborating closely with the broader Employee Relations, Human Resources Business Partner, and HR teams. If you’re ready to bring advanced judgment, empathy, and Care with Respect to Salem Health’s employees, we’d love to meet you.
What you'll do
- Advise frontline and senior leaders on complex employee relations matters, including corrective action, performance management, conflict resolution, and policy interpretation.
- Independently lead highly complex workplace and provider-related investigations, evaluating legal and organizational risk while maintaining thorough documentation.
- Monitor employee experience and labor relations trends, facilitate interventions, support grievance resolution, and maintain visibility through department meetings and staff rounding.
- Guide complex personnel actions, respond to legal inquiries, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment requirements.
- Lead employee relations training, organization-wide initiatives, Lean process improvement, and change-management efforts in partnership with HR stakeholders.
- Monitors practices to ensure customer departments comply with laws, rules and regulations related to employment.
Required qualifications
- Bachelors Degree.
- Minimum of six years of progressively responsible employee relations experience, providing strategic guidance, high stakes consultation, and subject-matter expertise to frontline leaders and diverse employee groups, exempt and non exempt.
- Equivalent combinations of advanced experience and education may be considered in lieu of formal degree requirements.
Additional information
- Experience within a hospital, multi site healthcare system, or similarly complex, highly regulated environment strongly preferred.
- Advanced-level knowledge of federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and administrative requirements governing employee and labor relations, with demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to both routine and highly complex matters.
- Comprehensive understanding of the full spectrum of HR functional domains, including employment law, complex HR investigations, advanced employee relations practices, benefits, compensation, organizational development, change management, HRIS platforms, labor relations, and workforce planning.
- Extensive experience providing strategic employee relations guidance and high-stakes consultation to leaders.
- Demonstrated success independently conducting highly complex investigations, including provider-related matters.
- Advanced knowledge of employment law, labor relations, union contracts, and grievance resolution.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders using data, precedent, sound judgment, and effective presentations.
- High emotional intelligence, strong conflict-resolution skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities across a 24/7, multisite organization.
Total rewards package
Salem Health's comprehensive benefits package prioritizes your mental and physical health, financial stability, family obligations, and professional growth. Click here for details.
Why Salem Health?
Salem Health is a Top Workplace in Oregon, known for fostering a supportive culture where your contributions truly matter. As an award-winning, independent health care system, we serve our region through Salem Hospital, multiple community clinics and West Valley Hospital, ensuring broad access to high-quality care.
We believe in empowering our teams. Through Lean principles, staff help drive innovation and solve real problems. We also invest in your growth with professional development, tuition assistance, and clear career pathways. At Salem Health, you’ll find more than a job, you’ll find purpose, connection, and room to thrive.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by law.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact my.recruiter@salemhealth.org.
Location: Salem Hospital, 890 Oak Street SE, Salem, Oregon 97301
Department: Human Resources
Position Type: Full Time, 40 hours/week, Exempt
Schedule: 8:00 am – 4:30 pm, Monday – Friday, early/late flexing to round with multiple shifts, primarily on-site
Your role with us
Join a highly engaged and mission-driven Employee Relations team that thrives on collaboration, adaptability, and human connection. As a Senior Employee Relations Partner, you will serve as a trusted subject-matter expert and strategic resource to frontline and senior leaders across assigned service lines.
You will independently lead highly complex investigations, assess organizational and legal risk, and provide strategic recommendations aligned with employment laws, policies, and best practices. You will also coach leaders through complex employee relations matters, oversee provider-related concerns, facilitate conflict resolution, and support labor relations and grievance resolution.
Each partner independently manages assigned service lines while collaborating closely with the broader Employee Relations, Human Resources Business Partner, and HR teams. If you’re ready to bring advanced judgment, empathy, and Care with Respect to Salem Health’s employees, we’d love to meet you.
What you'll do
- Advise frontline and senior leaders on complex employee relations matters, including corrective action, performance management, conflict resolution, and policy interpretation.
- Independently lead highly complex workplace and provider-related investigations, evaluating legal and organizational risk while maintaining thorough documentation.
- Monitor employee experience and labor relations trends, facilitate interventions, support grievance resolution, and maintain visibility through department meetings and staff rounding.
- Guide complex personnel actions, respond to legal inquiries, and ensure compliance with federal, state, and local employment requirements.
- Lead employee relations training, organization-wide initiatives, Lean process improvement, and change-management efforts in partnership with HR stakeholders.
- Monitors practices to ensure customer departments comply with laws, rules and regulations related to employment.
Required qualifications
- Bachelors Degree.
- Minimum of six years of progressively responsible employee relations experience, providing strategic guidance, high stakes consultation, and subject-matter expertise to frontline leaders and diverse employee groups, exempt and non exempt.
- Equivalent combinations of advanced experience and education may be considered in lieu of formal degree requirements.
Additional information
- Experience within a hospital, multi site healthcare system, or similarly complex, highly regulated environment strongly preferred.
- Advanced-level knowledge of federal, state, and local statutes, regulations, and administrative requirements governing employee and labor relations, with demonstrated ability to apply this knowledge to both routine and highly complex matters.
- Comprehensive understanding of the full spectrum of HR functional domains, including employment law, complex HR investigations, advanced employee relations practices, benefits, compensation, organizational development, change management, HRIS platforms, labor relations, and workforce planning.
- Extensive experience providing strategic employee relations guidance and high-stakes consultation to leaders.
- Demonstrated success independently conducting highly complex investigations, including provider-related matters.
- Advanced knowledge of employment law, labor relations, union contracts, and grievance resolution.
- Proven ability to influence senior leaders using data, precedent, sound judgment, and effective presentations.
- High emotional intelligence, strong conflict-resolution skills, and the ability to manage competing priorities across a 24/7, multisite organization.
Total rewards package
Salem Health's comprehensive benefits package prioritizes your mental and physical health, financial stability, family obligations, and professional growth. Click here for details.
Why Salem Health?
Salem Health is a Top Workplace in Oregon, known for fostering a supportive culture where your contributions truly matter. As an award-winning, independent health care system, we serve our region through Salem Hospital, multiple community clinics and West Valley Hospital, ensuring broad access to high-quality care.
We believe in empowering our teams. Through Lean principles, staff help drive innovation and solve real problems. We also invest in your growth with professional development, tuition assistance, and clear career pathways. At Salem Health, you’ll find more than a job, you’ll find purpose, connection, and room to thrive.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, national origin, disability, veteran status, genetic information, or any other status or condition protected by law.
Salem Health Hospitals and Clinics is committed to providing access, equal opportunity, and reasonable accommodation for applicants. If reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and/or to receive other benefits and privileges of employment, please contact my.recruiter@salemhealth.org.
Share this job:
Career exploration program
Whatever your background or career aspirations, there’s a place for you at Salem Health. And our Career Exploration Program can help you identify the ideal opportunity to pursue. The Program allows you to work alongside a healthcare professional as you gain insight into a fulfilling hospital career.
Nursing
Since 2010, Salem Hospital has continuously achieved Magnet™-designation – the gold standard for nursing excellence. Only eight percent of all hospitals achieve this prestigious distinction.
We’ve been able to do this by maintaining a nursing culture that is defined by:
- Consistent teamwork and collaboration
- Exemplary resources to support clinical nurses
- Engaged and inspiring leadership
- A focus on well-being, resilience, diversity, equity, and inclusion
- Strong professional development opportunities
- Pride in delivering quality-of-care that exceeds national norms
- An empowering professional governance structure and professional practice model
- New grad residency support, preceptorship, and mentoring
- Open and transparent strategy alignment
- Feedback is encouraged, valued and incorporated from the staff at all levels.
- Partnerships with community organizations that support improved patient outcomes
If you’re looking for a setting where you can achieve your highest potential as a nurse, we invite you to join us. We welcome all nurses, including those from outside of the United States. At Salem Health, you can experience an inclusive culture that values and rewards your unique qualities and background.
RN residency program
Begin your journey from student nurse to confident practitioner with our RN Residency Program. The program features a combination of didactic lessons, simulation, and track-specific class options. It begins with orientation and training and proceeds to preceptorship and mentorship. Through the program, you will gain clinical expertise as well as valuable professional skills such as communication and critical thinking.
Certified nursing assistants
As a certified nursing assistant (CNA), your contributions are absolutely crucial. You will provide compassionate reassurance and vital patient support in order to ensure our patients receive the highest quality care possible. You will receive competitive compensation as you provide patients with physical care and emotional support. We seek empathetic, and non-judgmental individuals with a sincere passion for elevating others’ lives.
Postgraduate year 1 pharmacy residency program
The Salem Health Postgraduate Year 1 (PGY1) Residency Program enhances your PharmD education as you develop your clinical expertise in the medication-related care of patients with a wide range of conditions. The program will be eligible for board certification, and eligible for postgraduate year 2 (PGY2) pharmacy residency training. Upon completion of the Salem Health PGY1 residency, we believe you will be a confident and highly capable general practitioner, and well-prepared for the next step in your career.
We will meet you wherever you are on your career journey, and walk with you to your destination
There are over 900 unique positions to choose from at Salem Health. Whatever your background or your professional and personal aspirations, we offer an inclusive learning environment where you can achieve your highest potential in a career that grows with you. And, we’ll help you along the way with perks like tuition reimbursement and certification bonuses.
With so many options, why work anywhere else?
