HR Coordinator

Founded in 1910, Dignity Health - Mercy Hospital is a 229-bed, acute care, nonprofit hospital located in Bakersfield, California. Serving nearly 90,000 patients annually, the hospital offers a full complement of services including Level II NICU, cancer care, women’s health, and orthopedics. Additionally, Mercy Hospital Downtown & Mercy Hospital Southwest have been recognized as an LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality High Performer by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation. They are both Joint Commission-certified Primary Stroke Centers. Mercy Hospital Downtown offers the only inpatient Oncology Unit in Bakersfield while Mercy Hospital Southwest has the only Obstetric Emergency Department in Bakersfield.

One Community. One Mission. One California 

As our HR Coordinator, you will support critical HR functions and foster positive employee experiences by building partnerships with Centers of Excellence and streamlining processes.

Every day you will provide comprehensive support for onboarding new employees, facilitate manager and employee self-service transactions, and meticulously ensure data integrity across various HR systems.

To be successful in this role you will demonstrate a strong ability to collaborate effectively across HR functions, manage multiple tasks with precision, and commit to delivering exceptional service that enhances the overall employee experience.

• Service Excellence
  
  
  
  
  • Ensure needs are met in a timely manner and with the highest level of customer service in support of HR functional support, as well as manager and employee transactional HR support.
  
  
  
  • Provide HR Policy guidance to assist employees in locating and navigating enterprise and divisional policies.
  
  
  
  • Oversee onboarding activities for all new hires to ensure complete and accurate information is collected and entered into HR systems and to ensure positive experience for all candidates.
  
  
  
  • Support Day One Orientation, as well as monitoring of candidate experience to ensure alignment with culture and efficiency of activities.
  
  
  
  • Coordinate day-to-day HR administrative tasks to ensure compliance and accurate entry of data into HR systems.
  
  
  
  • Assist and oversee initiatives for the office to include coordinating candidate interviews, employee engagement initiatives and facility specific programs.
  
  
  
  • Partner with HR teams to design effective programs, processes, and policies to ensure standards across the facility/division are aligned within each facility and across all areas.
  
  
  
  • Identify and implement HR best practices to align, partner and collaborate with leadership to ensure high standards of service.
  
  
  
  • Perform ad hoc requests and assist with special projects and other tasks or initiatives as needed.
• Culture – Assists the HR leader with integrating culture standards consistent with the CommonSpirit Health’s mission, vision and values into business unit/facility/market/division practices and processes to ensure all employees experience and engage in supporting the desired work culture.
• Centers of Expertise (CoE) Utilization: Collaborates with HR leaders and CoEs to support the accomplishment of business goals, objectives, and outcomes:
  
  
  
  
  • Identifies business unit/facility/service line needs to HR Leader and CoE partners for program and resource solutions that support effective people management and operational performance.
  
  
  
  • Assists the HR leader and CoE with the implementation of programs/initiatives to increase awareness and understanding by employees and leaders.
  
  
  
  • Supports the HR leader and CoE partners to develop, implement, and improve processes for engagement and communication between the CoE and Business Partners that ensure the effective utilization of the CoEs on an ongoing basis.

Required

• High School Graduate General Studies and Three years relevant experience, upon hire or
• High School GED General Studies and Three years relevant experience, upon hire or
• Associates Other Associates Degree and one year relevant experience, upon hire or
• Bachelors Other Bachelor's Degree and one year relevant experience, upon hire