Senior Business Partner

Melbourne Health; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 140,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Salary packaging up to $12,000 tax‑a?e

Generous leave entitlements

Monthly accrued day off

Job summary

Melbourne Health in Melbourne's Parkville precinct is seeking a Senior Business Partner – Business Partnering Leadership to lead a growing People and Culture team. You will partner with stakeholders to deliver key people initiatives, support change programs and help shape workforce transformation across the organisation.

As part of the leadership team reporting to Head of Workplace Relations and Business Partnering, you will coach managers through performance matters, strengthen governance, and

Qualifications

• Experience leading and growing a team of Business Partners.
• People & Culture expertise across strategy, performance, investigations, change and transformation.
• IR/ER knowledge in complex environments with multiple Enterprise Agreements.
• Excellent influencing skills and stakeholder engagement.
• Public healthcare experience is highly desirable.

Responsibilities

• Team Leadership: build a high performing Business Partnering team and strengthen stakeholder relationships.
• Capability uplift: coach leaders, address leadership gaps and drive transformation.
• Best Practise Advice: guide managers on performance, misconduct and complex people matters with thorough records.
• Systems, policy and documentation: improve data, policies and documentation; drive process improvements.
• Culture and events: champion values and foster collaboration through events.

Skills

Team leadership

Stakeholder management

Change management

Coaching & development

Policy & documentation

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in HR or Business

Job description

Senior Business Partner – Business Partnering Leadership

• Full time ongoing opportunity
• Influence people strategy, organisational change and workforce transformation.
• Salary packaging | Monthly ADO’s | 5 weeks annual leave

About the role

We think happy, engaged and focused people are at the heart of a thriving organisation. As our Senior Business Partner, you’ll partner with our stakeholders to deliver key people initiatives and play a hands‑on role leading and growing your team of People and Culture Business Partners.

You’ll join an existing high performing leadership team, reporting into the Head of Workplace Relations and Business Partnering. This is an incredible opportunity for someone to join our team following a period of change and transformation and play a key role in our evolution and journey moving forwards.

What you’ll do

• Team Leadership: building a diverse and high performing Business Partnering team, create clarity, strengthen stakeholder relationships and support partnering capability across your portfolio.
• Capability uplift: coaching and partnering with our leaders to identify and address leadership and workforce capability gaps, support change and transformation, contribute towards professional development programs and training and play a key role in culture transformation.
• Best Practise Advice: coach managers and leaders through performance management and misconduct, restructures and other complex people matters, keeping great records along the way.
• Systems, policy and documentation: strengthen system data and reporting across your team, contribute towards HR policies and documentation, keeping them concise, readable and compliant and initiate process improvements based on our evolving ways of working.
• Culture and events: champion our values, suggest improvements and bring the team together through events and internal collaboration opportunities.

About You

You’re warm and proactive, and you enjoy helping people grow. You build trust across teams and with leadership, handle people matters with clarity and kindness, and are comfortable having difficult conversations when needed. You’re passionate about positive leadership, continuous improvement and learning, and are happy to roll up your sleeves to find practical solutions and improve the way things work.

What you’ll bring

• Experience leading and growing a team of highly capable Business Partners.
• People and Culture expertise across people strategy, performance and misconduct, investigations, workforce planning, change, transformation, restructures, capability and organisational effectiveness.
• Working knowledge of IR/ER, ideally in an industrially complex environment with multiple Enterprise Agreements.
• Excellent influencing skills and confidence respectfully challenging established ways of working and decision-making.
• Highly desirable: Public healthcare experience and experience partnering with multiple union bodies.

Benefits of Working at RMH

• Meaningful WorkMake a real difference in the lives of patients, families and our community.
• Career GrowthAccess learning, development, and diverse career opportunities.
• Supportive Culture & BelongingJoin in a diverse and values‑led organisation built on kindness, collaboration and inclusion.
• InnovationHelp shape the future of healthcare through research, technology and new models of care.
• World-Class ExcellenceWork alongside leading healthcare professionals at one of Australia's premier public hospitals, within the Parkville Precinct—one of the world's leading biomedical and research precincts.
• Enjoy great employee benefitsSalary packaging of up to $12,000 tax free and generous leave entitlements, including additional annual leave and a monthly accrued day off for eligible full-time staff (role/EBA dependent).
• Work in the Parkville PrecinctWork in the Parkville precinct with excellent public transport, onsite parking options and access to staff health services.