HR Manager

BIRMINGHAM GREEN

Nursing Home and Assisted Living Facilities

HR Manager

Full-time

Day shift

Birmingham Green, a person-centered care focus community, located in Manassas, Virginia, was recently named as one of the best Nursing Homes in Virginia (in U.S. News). As a highly rated community, we have provided high-quality, high-quality, and affordable care for 91 years.

For a view into our world, please visit our website at www.birminghamgreen.org

Responsibilities/Accountabilities

Summary:

Under general supervision of the HR Director, uses knowledge and skills obtained through education, training, and experience to manage the day-to-day administration of employee benefit plans company-wide. This position aims to help the Director provide an employee-oriented, high-performance organization emphasizing safety, quality, and productivity. Responsibilities include talent management, leadership training and development, performance management administration, benefits and compensation administration, and employee relations. Assists the Director in determining procedures to perform a variety of departmental tasks. Resolves most issues independently, with elevated matters being referred to the Director. Frequent contact with internal customers, insurance carriers, and third-party administrators is required.

Essential Duties and Responsibilities:

Supervises administration of employee benefits programs, including retirement medical, dental, vision, life insurance, disability insurance, and others.

Handles benefit inquiries and complaints to ensure quick, equitable, courteous resolution.

Maintains contact in person, by phone, or e-mail, with brokers, insurance companies, employees, and beneficiaries to facilitate proper and complete utilization of benefits for all employees.

Supervises maintenance of records. Oversees the maintenance of enrollment, application, and claims inquiries for all benefit plans.

Possesses a superior technical knowledge of the workings of group insurance plans - plan documents, summary plan descriptions, and other insurance mechanisms.

Assists the Director in evaluating and comparing existing company benefits with those of other employers by analyzing other plans, surveys, and other sources of information.

Plans, develop, and participates in area and industry surveys.

Analyzes results of surveys and develops specific recommendations for review by management.

Assists in developing specifications for new plans or modifying existing plans to:

Maintain the company's competitive position in the labor market and;

Obtain uniform benefit packages for all company locations where possible.

Assists Director in recommending new or modified plans. Develops census data and solicits insurance companies for quotations. Evaluates quotations and make recommendations to management. Acquires company cost information for new plans and makes recommendations to the Director concerning sharing costs between employer and employee.

Install new plans and changes by preparing announcement material, booklets, and other media to communicate new plans to employees.

Conducts employee meetings and arranges for enrollment of employees in optional plans. Conducts employee benefit seminars for local personnel.

Revises and reissues all communications material on benefits. Advises and counsels management and employees on existing benefits.

Prepares and executes, with legal consultation, benefits documentation such as original and amended plan texts, benefit agreements, and insurance policies. Instructs insurance carriers, trustees, and other administrative agencies outside the company to effect changes in the benefit program. Ensures prompt and accurate compliance.

Assures company compliance with provisions of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act. Supervises preparing reports and applications required by law to be filed with federal and state agencies, such as the Internal Revenue Service, Department of Labor, insurance commissioners, and other regulatory agencies. Reviews and analyzes changes to state and federal laws about benefits, and reports necessary or suggested changes to management. Develops benefit information and statistical and census data for actuaries, insurance carriers, and management.

Serves as a regular contact for staff, internal customers, insurance vendors, and third-party administrators.

Maintains currency in Benefits and Human Resources legislation.

Performs other duties and responsibilities as assigned.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities:

Group insurance and risk management principles and strategies.

Regulations, practices, and procedures of benefits administration.

The Virginia Retirement plan (VRS).

Microsoft Office, OnShift, and ADP HR software

Skill in:

Managing and motivating administrative employees

Maintaining records and preparing reports, documents, and insurance filings.

Designing insurance-related materials for internal and external customers.

Operating standard office equipment and using required software applications to produce correspondence, reports, electronic communication, spreadsheets, and databases.

Ability to:

Quickly learn the company's working structure, culture, policies, and strategies.

Partner with other functional areas to accomplish objectives.

Read, interpret, analyze and apply information.

Organize, manage, and track multiple detailed tasks and assignments with frequently changing priorities and deadlines in a fast-paced work environment.

Communicate effectively, both orally and in writing, at all levels of the organization.

Work independently as well as collaboratively within a team environment

Articulate reasoning behind actions to Director and other management personnel.

Provide high customer service and drive customer service orientation to staff.

Maintain the strictest confidentiality.

Establish and maintain effective working relationships across the organization.

Educational/Previous Experience Recommendations:

1.A bachelor's degree and five years of experience in Benefits Administration Management, OR

2.Ten years in Benefits Administration Management

3.Human Resource experience in the healthcare industry or closely related field preferred.

~or~

Any equivalent combination of experience, education, and training approved by management.

Licenses/Certifications:

PHR, CEBS preferred

Benefits

We offer a competitive package of benefits and perks, which includes:

• Medical, dental, vision, long-term disability, life insurance, legal guard plan, and pet insurance

• 10 Paid Holidays

• 23 days of paid time off (employees can accrue up to 240 hours of paid time off)

• Retirement plans through the Virginia Retirement System (VRS) - www.varetire.org

• Tuition Reimbursement

• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

• Employee Discounts

• LifeMart

• Employee Discounts

• Cafeteria

How to Apply

If you have been thinking about making a change and want to make the correct change in 2022, then this opportunity is for you.

Be a part of a great community and an exceptional team.

Birmingham Green

8605 Centreville Rd.

Manassas, VA 20110

Attn: Alice Decker, HR Director

703-257-6210

703-257-0811 - fax

We sincerely thank all applicants for their interest in Birmingham Green.

Equal Opportunity Employer Veterans/Disabled