Hours:

Shift Start Time:

8 AM

Shift End Time:

5 PM

AWS Hours Requirement:

8/40 - 8 Hour Shift

Additional Shift Information:

Weekend Requirements:

Not Specified

On-Call Required:

No

Hourly Pay Range (Minimum - Midpoint - Maximum):

$44.656 - $57.621 - $70.585

The stated pay scale reflects the range that Sharp reasonably expects to pay for this position. The actual pay rate and pay grade for this position will be dependent on a variety of factors, including an applicant's years of experience, unique skills and abilities, education, alignment with similar internal candidates, marketplace factors, other requirements for the position, and employer business practices.

What You Will Do
This position reports directly to the Director/Manager of Labor Relations, serving under the Vice President of Labor and Employee Relations and Employment Law. This position is responsible for maintaining an individual caseload working with a highly integrated team of attorney and non-attorney professionals with the stated objective of establishing and maintaining a positive labor-management relationship while protecting Sharp Healthcare's interests. The Labor Relations Partner role is responsible for processing union grievances up to the arbitration level, monitoring and ensuring management and union adherence to labor contract provisions, ensuring general compliance with State and Federal labor and employment laws under the guidance of Sr. LR professionals/attorneys, participating in union collective bargaining agreement negotiations and responding to internal and external inquiries from multiple sources including employees, management, union representatives and government entities.

Required Qualifications

• 3 Years of labor relations or like experience required (including employee relations, human resources, compensation, workers compensation or related fields within in a unionized environment).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master's Degree
• Juris Doctor (JD)
• 3 Years of experience in a labor relations role specifically in a healthcare setting.

Other Qualification Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; or 4 years related work experience may substitute for degree. - Required

Essential Functions

• Labor Relations
  Applies labor relations concepts to represent the Sharp enterprise objectives at the bargaining table and has some authority to make binding agreements with local unions on items of limited complexity and scope, utilizing an understanding of organization goals and priorities.
  Represents the Sharp enterprise as a participant in union labor contract bargaining, grievance processing and arbitrations, and has authority to negotiate resolution of grievances on behalf of the enterprise.
  May lead a team to build consensus in a collaborative manner among diverse entities (for example, organization management, employees, and union representatives).
  Responsible for administering highly complex collective bargaining agreements and for interpreting the agreements.
  Works with management to recommend organization's position on labor relations topics.
  Advises organization managers and human resource professionals on labor relations implications relating to highly complex individual and organization-wide issues or courses of action.
  Works in a highly collaborative manner with others across the organization, including all levels of management and leadership, as well as with external contacts of significance.
  Conducts highly complex and varied analyses of issues or concepts and develops resulting recommendations. Evaluate potential operational changes from the Labor Relations perspective and propose strategies to limit exposure to labor claims.
• Training
  Provide group training to department administrators and managers on labor relations (i.e. Managing in a unionized environment). Provide targeted unit training as needed.
• Other Duties
  Maintain confidentiality and exercise discretion in addressing matters of varying complexity and where the consequence of error is high.
  Other duties as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Incumbents should demonstrate initiative, intelligence and critical thinking/analytical skills, creative problem solving skills, a strong work ethic and be comfortable working independently and as part of a team to help achieve the Sharp Healthcare Experience of being the Best place to work, Best place to practice medicine, and the Best place to receive care.
• Must have a broad range of knowledge in human resources, labor/employment law, or like function and serves in a system-wide capacity for the Sharp enterprise.
• The incumbent will participate on behalf of management and/or the Sharp enterprise in formal adversarial dispute resolution processes such as grievances, arbitrations, hearings, mediations, etc., and will be expected to have the ability to negotiate union grievances to completion.

Sharp HealthCare is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, status as a protected veteran, among other things, or status as a qualified individual with disability or any other protected class

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