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Now more than ever.

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Now more than ever our guiding principles are helping us in our search for exceptional talent - candidates who align with our unique workplace culture and who want to maximizethe abundant opportunities for growth and success.

If this describes you then lets talk!

HSS is consistently among the top-ranked hospitals for orthopedics and rheumatology by U.S. News & World Report. As a recipient of the Magnet Award for Nursing Excellence HSS was the first hospital in New York City to receive the distinguished designation. Whether you are early in your career or an expert in your field you will find HSS an innovative supportive and inclusive environment.

Working with colleagues who love what they do and are deeply committed to our Mission you too can be part of our transformation across the enterprise.

Emp Status

Work Shift

Compensation Range

What you will be doing

Responsibilities:

Leaves of Absence:

• Serve as subject matter expert for time and pay processes related to both continuous and intermittent leaves assessing current practices and partnering with internal teams as needed

• Guide educate and advise managers and employees on leave of absence policies and processes ensuring they are provided and directed to the appropriate resources

• Ensure accurate time entry and pay for employees on leave of absence coordinating with external payers as needed

• Ensure both HSS payroll and state benefit payments are processed correctly and payments are made to employees accurately and timely

• Oversee and implement Donated Sick Time practices for eligible employees

• Act as the primary point-of-contact with the outsourced Leave Management administrator ensuring their process is compliant and efficient and that leaves are processed and communicated in a timely manner

• Oversee third-party Leave Administrator performance periodically auditing volume employee statistics and practices to assess and ensure quality

• Proactively identify and troubleshoot leave issues or concerns and recommend and implement solutions

• Ensure all systems (i.e. Third-Party Administrators HR Acuity Workday Dimensions) are equipped to accurately transfer data between one another; act as primary conduit for Leave-related technology and systems

• Proactively identify and troubleshoot leave issues or concerns and recommend and implement solutions

• Inform third-party administrator and internal staff of HSS policy or practice changes ensuring leaves are managed in accordance with the most current requirements

• Compile and analyze leave metrics to identify trends and areas for improvement

• Remain abreast of current and changing leave-related laws

Reasonable Accommodations:

• Oversee the HSS Reasonable Accommodation process responding to accommodation inquiries in a timely manner

• Lead the interactive and cooperative dialog process for reasonable accommodation requests with managers and employees advising stakeholders of policies and practices that influence decisions

• Communicate accommodation determination to employees managers Occupational Health and other relevant parties

• Record and maintain all accommodation cases in HR Acuity

• Seek to resolve and/or escalate complex or risky leave or accommodation-related issues to ER and Legal partners

Requirements:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent relevant work experience

• Minimum of 5 years experience in leave of absence administration

• Minimum of 2 years experience managing and supervising staff

• Strong knowledge of federal state and local leave laws (e.g. FMLA ADA) and leave administration guidelines (DBL STD PFL LTD)

• Observant of medical and personal information privacy in accordance with HIPAA guidelines

• Highly proficient working in HR Systems experience with Workday (HRIS) and Kronos (Timekeeping) a plus

• Strong proficiency in Microsoft Excel

• Customer-service oriented projecting a positive attitude and a solutions-focused mindset

• Collaborative with proven ability to develop and maintain strong professional relationships

• Strong written and verbal communication skills able to explain complex information in a simple and understandable way

• Effectively manages time to handle multiple matters simultaneously in a fast-paced environment

• Impeccable attention to detail and follow-through

• Active listener; ability to interpret to both verbal and nonverbal communications

• Confident and decisive in advising others

• Demonstrates curiosity and an interest to learn and grow willing and able to adapt to different approaches

• Healthcare experience a plus

Non-Discrimination Policy
Hospital for Special Surgery is committed to providing high quality care and skilled compassionate reliable service to our community in a safe and healing environment. Consistent with this commitment Hospital for Special Surgery provides care admits and treats patients and provides all services without regard to age race color creed ethnicity religion national origin culture language physical or mental disability socioeconomic status veteran or military status marital status sex sexual orientation gender identity or expression or any other basis prohibited by federal state or local law or by accreditation standards.