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Human Resources Specialist (ER/LR)
Veterans Health Administration · Posted 56 days ago
Hybrid Salt Lake City, UT $90K – $116K Apply by Jul 27, 2026 Human Resources Management ESFJISFJ Customer Success
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The purpose of this position is to provide HR Services including leadership consulting and advisory functions in employee relations and labor relations. It includes an emphasis on providing leaders and employees with quality customer service, program accountability, and problem resolution. **See note below in duties section regarding location of position.**
What You'll Do
- →Location Clarification: This job is open to candidates who reside and/or intend to reside within a 50-mile radius of a facility located within the VISN 21 catchment area.
- →This area includes Northern California (San Francisco, Palo Alto, Martinez, Mather and Mountain View), and/or Nevada (Reno and Las Vegas).
- →Candidates will be required to physically report to a VA facility within these locations which will be specified after selection.
- →VA offers a comprehensive total rewards package: HR Specialist Total Rewards Duties for this position to include but no limited to the following: Employee Relations Provides technical guidance, advice and counseling to management officials and supervisors to address issues with workforce-related conduct and performance.
- →Develops strategies to respond to employee-related issues.
- →Prepares appropriate agency responses to employee relations matters.
- →Provides consultation on associated program areas, such as reasonable accommodation and leave management.
- →Delivers training for management and employees on a variety of employee relations topics.
- →Incumbent prepares a variety of correspondence on behalf of the agency to address complex employee relations matters including, disciplinary and adverse actions, settlement agreements, and congressional correspondence.
- →Provides services to an integrated healthcare network, ensuring strict adherence to all contractual and regulatory timeframes.
- →Advises management officials at all levels of the network, including senior leaders, about appropriate disciplinary or other corrective techniques in response to a range of conduct and performance problems.
- →Explains rules and procedures to employees and management to help them understand rights and obligations while maintaining and encouraging objectivity in situations that may be charged with emotion and involve assumptions.
- →Resolves disputes and evaluates events and/or identifies aggravating or mitigating factors relevant to the case.
- →Must have the stature, foresight, maturity, and ability to negotiate and reach amicable solutions to complex and controversial problems.
Requirements
- ✓You must be a U.S.
- ✓Citizen to apply for this job Selective Service Registration is required for males born after 12/31/1959 Subject to background/security investigation Selected applicants will be required to complete an online onboarding process.
- ✓Acceptable form(s) of identification will be required to complete pre-employment requirements (https://www.uscis.gov/i-9-central/form-i-9-acceptable-documents).
- ✓Effective May 7, 2025, driver's licenses or state-issued identification cards that are not REAL ID compliant cannot be utilized as an acceptable form of identification for employment.
- ✓Participation in the seasonal influenza vaccination program is a requirement for all Department of Veterans Affairs Health Care Personnel (HCP As a condition of employment for accepting this position, you will be required to serve a 1-year probationary or 2-year trial period during which we will evaluate your fitness and whether your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓In determining if your employment advances the public interest, we may consider: your performance and conduct; the needs and interests of the agency; whether your continued employment would advance organizational goals of the agency or the Government; and whether your continued employment would advance the efficiency of the Federal service.
- ✓Upon completion of your probationary or trial period, your employment will be terminated unless you receive certification, in writing, that your continued employment advances the public interest.
- ✓A transcript must be submitted with your application if you are basing all or part of your qualifications on education.
- ✓Reference: For more information on this qualification standard, please visit https://www.va.gov/ohrm/QualificationStandards/.
Personality Fit
Job ID: 39f429dd-951b-4bee-bc33-9c02dc1dbd43
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