Influence strategic workforce decisions across a complex health service.

Partner with leaders to navigate challenging people and workplace matters.

Bring your HR expertise to meaningful work that makes a difference.

Lead people-focused solutions, shape workforce strategy and guide complex employee relations matters in a dynamic healthcare environment.

Employment Type:Temporary Full Time and Temporary Part Time (up to 03/10/2027) positions available
Position Classification:Health Manager Level 2
Remuneration:$118,821 - $140,201 per annum / $59.92 - $70.70 per hour
Hours Per Week:38 (Job Share may beconsidered for part time hours)
Location:Westmead Hospital

Where you'll be working

Join the Human Resources team at Westmead Hospital, part of Western Sydney Local Health District (WSLHD), and bring your expertise to an organisation where people are central to delivering quality healthcare. You'll work alongside leaders and HR colleagues to navigate workforce challenges, influence organisational change and strengthen a positive, inclusive workplace culture. This is an opportunity to step into a senior, high-impact role where your judgement, ideas and relationship-building skills will make a genuine difference. If you're ready to take on a new challenge, broaden your experience or bring your HR expertise into a complex healthcare environment, we encourage you to explore this opportunity.

Work with purpose:

Support the people and workforce behind essential public healthcare services.

Influence key decisions:

Partner with leaders on workforce planning, organisational design and strategic priorities.

Build trusted relationships:

Collaborate with stakeholders across a diverse and evolving organisation.

Drive positive change:





Help create a respectful, inclusive and high-performing workplace where people can thrive.

Take your experience further:

Tackle varied and complex workforce challenges while contributing to meaningful organisational initiatives.

What you'll be doing

As a Senior HR Business Partner, you will provide independent, high-level HR advice and strategic support across a complex portfolio. You will combine sound industrial relations knowledge, commercial thinking and a people-centred approach to help leaders make informed decisions, manage sensitive matters and build workforce capability.

Shape workforce strategy and change: Advise on organisational design, workforce planning, recruitment, retention, succession planning and organisational change.

Navigate complex employee relations: Provide expert guidance on awards, employment legislation, grievances, performance management, misconduct, disputes and disciplinary processes.

Lead sensitive investigations and reviews: Manage complex workplace complaints and investigations, prepare detailed briefs and submissions, and support appeal and dispute processes.

Empower leaders and strengthen culture: Coach managers through challenging people matters, build their HR capability and promote fair, consistent and constructive workplace practices.

Turn insights into action: Analyse workforce data,



prepare reports and recommendations, contribute to HR policy development and deliver initiatives aligned with organisational priorities.

What you'll bring

You are a confident, solutions-focused HR professional who can see the bigger picture while managing the detail. You build credibility with stakeholders, exercise sound judgement in sensitive situations and translate complex employment matters into practical, balanced advice.

To be successful, you will bring:

A relevant tertiary qualification in human resources management or business, or equivalent extensive experience in HR management within a large, diverse organisation.

Demonstrated generalist HR business partnering experience across a broad portfolio, including industrial relations, award interpretation, organisational change, performance management and job evaluation.

Strong knowledge of employment legislation, industrial relations requirements and HR policies, with the ability to manage complex workplace investigations and sensitive employee matters.

Exceptional stakeholder engagement, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, including experience working with senior leaders, staff representatives and industrial organisations.

Highly developed written and verbal communication skills, with experience preparing complex reports, briefs, submissions and evidence-based recommendations.

Strong analytical, problem-solving and organisational skills, including the ability to interpret workforce metrics and use HR information systems and Microsoft applications effectively.

Experience in healthcare, the public sector or another large, complex service setting will be valu

📌 Senior HR Business Partner (Sydney)
🏢 NSW Health
📍 Sydney