Human Resources Officer

  • Central Office, SA, Australia
  • Permanent Full time
  • Be the difference. Enjoy great rewards and benefits
  • Employee well-being program with great discounts
  • Salary packaging to maximise your take-home pay
  • Permanent Full Time Position - 76 hrs per fortnight  

 

About the role

Role Purpose:

  • To provide generalist HR services, supporting the organisation's strategic objectives and ensuring employees contribute to these goals. The role also involves offering timely and accurate advice on HR policies and procedures.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Contract Administration: Reviewing candidate paperwork, preparing employment contracts, ensuring HRIS accuracy for new employees, and coordinating position description updates.
  • HR Generalist Services: Providing advice on HR policies, updating organisational charts, coordinating staff recognition and wage subsidies, reviewing HR policies due to changes, and driving continuous improvement initiatives.
  • Reporting & Compliance: Generating HRIS data reports, ensuring compliance with police checks, AHPRA, visas, fixed-term contracts, and NDIS, supporting site accreditation, and preparing documentation for meetings.
  • Other Duties: Managing departmental financial reconciliation, supporting Enterprise Agreement negotiations, providing data to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, offering administrative support to the People and Culture team, and overseeing security fob allocation.
  • Safe Work Environment (WHS): Conducting work safely, reporting hazards, and complying with WHS policies.

For further details regarding the scope of the role, please refer to the position description.

 

About you

  • Essential: Proven experience as an HR Officer or Administrator, proficiency in computers and Google Workspace, strong organizational, time management, interpersonal, and negotiation skills, ability to interpret industrial instruments, and a sound knowledge of contemporary HR practices, policies, industrial relations, and basic Aged Care Standards. Also requires strong ethics, reliability, flexibility, and discretion.
  • Desirable: Qualifications in HR/Business.

 

About us

Southern Cross Care is one of Australia’s leading charitable aged care, health and retirement living service providers. We value the diversity in our team, live and breathe our values of Service, Courage and Compassion and offer salary packaging benefits to maximise your take-home pay.

When you work for us, we value you as an individual, care for your wellbeing and develop your skills to help you build your career. We reward creativity and provide the stability and flexibility you need. When you work for us, you work better for life.


Apply online: careers.southerncrosscare.com.au/jobs/search

Applications close: 07 November 2025 at 4pm

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