Human Resources Lead - Freedom Home Health and Hospice Care Services Inc.

The HR Lead has the primary responsibility and accountability for maintaining accurate employee records for human resources purposes, and other clerical duties and backup telephone responsibilities.  Acts as an advocate for the organization employees and collaborates with office manager, project manager and the administrator.

Essential Job Functions/Responsibilities

1. Collaborates with the administration and daily human resources operations including all activities related to recruitment, retention, orientation of the new Freedom Home Health and Hospice Care Services Inc. employees.

2. Ensures compliance with all state, federal, and CHAP human resources regulatory requirements.

3. Follows the implemented company methods and procedures to ensure that consistent employment recruitment, selection, retention, hiring practices, orientation, and termination procedures are handled in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.

4. Work with management to identify recruitment needs in the company.

5. Maintains confidentiality of all employee information and files.

6. Continuously monitors employees documents to ensure their licenses and certifications are up to date in accordance with the company policies and procedures.

7. Coordinates interviews for the new company candidates and performs informal phone interview screening on prospective candidates.

8. Prompts data entry for all employee information into the system and is responsible for logging of visits pertaining to payroll.

9. Responsible for updating any changes on codes, names, pay rates, direct deposit information, and taxes.

10. Distributes copies of information as needed and initiates manual check requests to the Office Manager/Administrator for payroll check corrections and reports payroll errors after every payroll.

11. Correlates information needed for distribution of W-2’s at the end of the year.

12. Ensures that new employees complete medical benefits enrollment/waivers and submit them to the HR Department.

13. Ensures that COBRA letters are sent in a timely manner according to federal requirements and files are current and complete.

14. Ensures that worker comp cases are handled following state and federal regulations.

15. Performs necessary functions as assigned by the administration.

The above statements are only meant to be a representative summary of the major duties and responsibilities performed by incumbents for this job.  The incumbent may be requested to perform job related tasks other than those stated in this description.

Position Qualifications

1. Preferred, bachelor degree in business administration, human resources or a related field.

2. Preferred SHRM or SHRM-CP certification.

3. At least four (4) years experience in healthcare management preferably in hospice and home health care operations.

4. Has knowledge of state, federal, and CHAP regulations relating to employment and employee education.

Skills Required

1. Ability to type 45 words per minute.

2. Word processing skills.

3. Two (4) years data entry and computer experience.

4. Demonstrates good communication, negotiation, and public relations skills.

5. Demonstrates organization, flexibility, and cooperation in performing job responsibilities.