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Executive Service

Who we are and what we do:

The mission of the Tennessee Department of Health is to protect, promote and improve the health and prosperity of people in Tennessee. The Division of Laboratory Services' mission is to provide quality analytical laboratory support through the generation of accurate, reliable, and valid laboratory results.

Job Overview:

• Responsible for professional general human resources consultative work of considerable difficulty and HR supervisory work; including development of job performance plans for assigned subordinates and providing training in the basic workflow and processes related to their tasks.
• Develops process improvement suggestions to streamline workflow and improve process cycle times and accuracy; as well as ensuring implementation of laboratory strategic planning initiatives.
• Participates in behaviorally based interviews for job candidates to ensure hiring and retention of the most qualified employees.
• Develops and maintains policies, procedure manuals, spreadsheets, presentations, forms, form letters, memos, database queries, position advertisements, logs, and other systems as required to facilitate accurate data gathering, tracking, training, and dissemination.
• Incorporates departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, and policies into team best practices and standard operating procedures for efficiency and compliance purposes.
• Participates on team that develops motivational and operational strategies to enhance investment and participation in special initiatives, events, and projects.
• Ensures departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures are followed when addressing employee relation issues and maintaining essential documentation. Also, ensures the auditing of the personnel files and other employee documentation of laboratory staff to ensure completeness, accuracy, and compliance with standards.
• Creates disciplinary letters for agency employees based on information received form upper management to document the disciplinary process and inform the employee of the outcome of the disciplinary action.
• Analyzes candidates, applications and other documentation to inform the decision on who to invite for interview, including compliance with minimum qualifications and/or necessary and special qualifications.
• Advises hiring managers to ensure legally defensible and accurate employment decisions are made based on departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures.
• Conducts general training and on-boarding for laboratory employees to comply with departmental, state, and federal laws, rules, regulations, guidelines, processes, and procedures, facilitating change, and improving initiatives.
• Assists in documenting accidents and other safety violations to ensure compliance with OSHA/TOSHA regulations.
• Ensures the correct human resources transaction documents submitted by operating agency staff for appointments, promotions, demotions, separations, terminations, reclassifications, transfers, retirement, and information changes.
• Ensures the entry and approval of time and leave/overtime requests for laboratory staff into the appropriate databases as required; as well as submission of special leave timesheets/documentation.

Minimum Qualifications:

This is an Executive Service position.

Education and Qualifications: Bachelor's degree and at least four years Human Resource experience, and at least two years supervisory experience (no substitutions for experience). Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Understanding of the importance of confidentiality, exercises the highest standard of ethics, knowledge of state human resources rules and regulations.

Substitution of Experience for Education: Qualifying full-time professional human resources experience may be substituted for the required education, on a year-for-year basis, to a maximum of four years.

Pursuant to the State of Tennessee's Workplace Discrimination and Harassment policy, the State is firmly committed to the principle of fair and equal employment opportunities for its citizens and strives to protect the rights and opportunities of all people to seek, obtain, and hold employment without being subjected to illegal discrimination and harassment in the workplace. It is the State's policy to provide an environment free of discrimination and harassment of an individual because of that person's race, color, national origin, age (40 and over), sex, pregnancy, religion, creed, disability, veteran's status or any other category protected by state and/or federal civil rights laws.