Strategic HR Partner - Hybrid, 6-Month FTC

UnitingCare; Brisbane; Hybrid; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Flexible work arrangements

Salary packaging benefits

Parental leave (12 weeks)

Job summary

UnitingCare's BlueCare division is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders across Queensland. This six‑month fixed-term role supports hybrid work and focuses on workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and change initiatives within Residential Aged Care services.

You will provide strategic and tactical HR advice, use workforce data to inform decisions, and help drive industrial relations priorities while operating alongside a strong People & Culture team.

Qualifications

• A tertiary qualification in Human Resources or a relevant field or relevant experience.
• Significant experience in a comparable HR partnering role, providing strategic and tactical advice to senior leaders.
• Demonstrated experience implementing HR initiatives and programs and supporting complex change.
• Strong business acumen, critical thinking and the ability to work through complex workforce issues.
• Excellent stakeholder management, coaching, written and verbal communication skills.
• Sound knowledge of end-to-end HR processes, employment legislation, policy and internal controls.
• Confidence to satisfy probity checks, including a Nationally Coordinated Police Check and evidence of Right to Work in Australia.

Responsibilities

• Partner with fellow HR Business Partners and People & Culture colleagues to deliver key organisational priorities, including leadership capability initiatives, workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and strategic workforce programs.
• Support leaders to embed the significant change delivered through transformational programs of work, most recently the United & Stronger in Our Homes transformation in our Residential Aged Care stream, helping teams adopt new ways of working and realise the intended benefits of change.
• Use workforce data and trends to provide insight, identify risk and support evidence-based decisions.
• Contribute to major workforce and industrial relations priorities, including Enterprise Agreement bargaining, organisational change initiatives and business-led projects across BlueCare.
• Roll up your sleeves and provide practical, hands-on HR partnering support across a broad range of people matters, balancing strategic thinking with operational delivery.
• Work collaboratively as part of a high-performing People & Culture team, responding to emerging business needs and helping deliver outcomes that strengthen capability, engagement and performance across BlueCare.

Skills

HR partnering

Stakeholder management

Change management

Workforce planning

Leadership coaching

Education

Tertiary qualification in HR

Job description

UnitingCare's BlueCare division is seeking an experienced HR Business Partner to partner with senior leaders across Queensland. This six‑month fixed-term role supports hybrid work and focuses on workforce planning, organisational effectiveness and change initiatives within Residential Aged Care services.

You will provide strategic and tactical HR advice, use workforce data to inform decisions, and help drive industrial relations priorities while operating alongside a strong People & Culture team.