Human Resource Specialist

Our Company

StepStone Family & Youth Services

Overview

The HR Specialist is responsible for providing support to operations for various human resources responsibilities including training, recruitment, hiring, onboarding, HR compliance and retention. The HR Specialist is focused on maintaining local compliance with state, federal, and BrightSpring Health requirements. The HR Specialist should have a full understanding of the recruitment cycle to provide support to operations. The HR Specialist should partner with each service site to develop and implement a recruitment and retention plan and by partnering with Talent Acquisition. The HR Specialist should provide recruitment strategies, ideas, and tools to operations to assist with hitting hiring goals.

Responsibilities

• Providing administrative support in the areas of employee recruitment, hiring, retention, and evaluation

• Processing, verifying, and maintaining documentation relating to personnel activities such as staffing, recruitment, training, grievances, performance evaluations, and classifications

• Processing and reviewing employment applications in the ATS in order to evaluate qualifications or eligibility of applicants

• Examining employee files to answer inquiries and provide information for personnel actions

• Requesting information from law enforcement officials, previous employers, and other references in order to determine applicants' employment acceptability

• Responding to employee, manager and HR team requests and escalating issues as appropriate

• Providing support for employee on-boarding as well as employee exit meetings

• Conducting orientation and training for administrative staff as needed

• Train HR Coordinators and Supervisors on progressive corrective action process and ensure fair and consistent implementation of corrective actions. Consult with Regional HR Manager on corrective actions, determine corrective action level, complete appropriate documentation. Provide support to supervisors in corrective action meetings, as needed.

• Assisting with data management and file maintenance to include day to day data entry and employee data maintenance in the HRIS

• Creation and processing of Personnel Action Forms (PAF) for your assigned service site

• Providing on-boarding administrative support, and arranging for in-house and external training activities

• Ensuring compliance with federal, state and local employment laws and regulations

• Train HR team members

• Provide objective feedback and solution-focued recommendations in resolving conflict and employee relation matters

• Maintain thorough knowledge of company policies, state and federal employement related rules and interpret policy for stakeholders

• Maintain positive employee relations with staff and management

• Inform operations of worker's compensation claims process. Assist as needed with claim processing. Keep supervisors and management team informed of open claims and return-to-work status

• Conduct workplace investigations, as needed

• Other duties as assigned

Qualifications

• High school diploma or GED required

• One year experience in an administrative position

• Excellent Customer Service Skills

• Knowledge or previous experience working in an office setting with computers, phones, and other related tasks

• Knowledge in the areas of labor standards, data entry, worker's compensation reporting, OSHA reporting and Affirmative Action data integrity

• General knowledge of federal, state and local labor laws and regulatory compliance

• Must communicate professionally and positively with employees, customers and all levels of management

• Experience using Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and PowerPoint

• Capacity to solve problems independently and as a member of a team

• Strong organizational and time-management skills and the ability to easily maintain several projects and priorities concurrently

• Travel 25-50% or as needed

About our Line of Business

StepStone Family and Youth Services provides the full spectrum of support to children in need of alternative, safer and more positive living environments with residential and family services. StepStone connects children and youth who need homes with foster families, as well as foster care training, respite care and support services. For young adults transitioning from foster care to independent living, StepStone provides personalized guidance and training on basic life skills, including money management, life skills and education. For more information visit www.stepstoneyouth.com.

Salary Range

USD $22.00 - $25.00 / Hour