The Royal Melbourne Hospital is one of Australia’s leading public healthcare providers.

Join the team. Build a career. We are looking for a passionate and dedicated individual to join The Royal Melbourne Hospital.

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 Work
  Make a real difference in the lives of patients, families and our community.
• Career Growth
  Access learning, development, and diverse career opportunities.
• Supportive Culture & Belonging
  Join in a diverse and values-led organisation built on kindness, collaboration and inclusion.
• Innovation
  Help shape the future of healthcare through research, technology and new models of care.
• World-Class Excellence
  Work 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 benefits
  Salary 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 Precinct
  Work in the Parkville precinct with excellent public transport, onsite parking options and access to staff health services.

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Interested?

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Interviews may commence as applications are received. Early applications are encouraged as the role may close once filled.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Record Check and satisfactory Working With Children Check.

The RMH is committed to creating a culturally safe environment as a collective responsibility. We draw on our principles of self-determination, equity, accountability, and shared learning to create a culturally responsive health system that challenges how we strive for continuous quality improvement to meet the expectations of the communities and patients we serve.

RMH is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with the Child Safe Standards.

As a leader in healthcare, we recognise the need to foster a culture of equity, inclusion, and belonging. We encourage people of all backgrounds, identities, and abilities to apply, and will provide adjustments to support equitable participation.