Sandy Morel

Develop and implement effective recruitment strategies to attract qualified caregivers and support staff. Conduct comprehensive interviews, perform background checks, and verify all credentials. Ensure compliance with relevant regulatory requirements.

• Create targeted training programs for caregivers and support staff. Manage performance through coaching, evaluations, and necessary disciplinary actions.
• Foster healthy employee relations and facilitate conflict resolution.
• Provided updates on HR policy changes to employees to satisfy compliance and state laws.
• Provided immediate updates to entire employee pool when policies and procedures were altered.
• Oversaw workers' compensation program for employees injured on job.
• Cultivate a positive work environment that enhances employee satisfaction.
• Recognize and reward exceptional performance to encourage ongoing excellence.
• Ensure strict adherence to labor laws, regulations, and agency policies. Maintain accurate records and ensure timely reporting.
• Oversee employee onboarding and orientation processes for new hires. Develop and update organizational policies as needed.
• Manage workers' compensation cases and implement effective risk management strategies.
• Conducted exit interviews to better understand reasons why employees were separating from company.

• Administer and models company policies and philosophy
• Leads full-cycle recruiting process for assigned facility including back-up coverage for other facilities, depending on demand
• Provides day-to-day performance management guidance to managers/supervisors, help execute/resolve employees relations issues and facilitates corrective action communications
• Conducts timely, thorough and effective investigations and reports findings to HR Manager/Director
• Interprets policies and procedures and resolves issues with employees in regards to adherence of company policies and procedures
• Assist with open enrollment meetings activities including conducting presentations
• Attend and contribute to weekly/monthly HR meetings
• Support managers on the continued development of internal talent and the structure of the organization
• In partnership with managers and department leaders - address performance issues and retention issues using our company policy and procedures
• Development and implementation of training
• Coaching of leadership team
• Develops/update job descriptions in cooperation with supervisors.

• Oversee employee life cycle: recruiting, developing employment assessments, drafting and signing employment agreements, onboarding, exit interviews
• Managed all HR processes for 500 employees across multiple locations, oversaw recruiting, hiring, and onboarding activities, established standardized training processes, and created a database to facilitate knowledge sharing
• Successfully resolved a number of complex employee relations issues
• Developed and implemented a new employee onboarding program that resulted in a 20% increase in employee retention
• Created and implemented a new performance management system that resulted in a 15% increase in employee productivity
• Develop an overarching strategy to improve employee relations and cross-functional collaboration, including establishing the employee resource group and planning events to drive employee engagement and improve retention
• Served as the point of contact for HR matters, identified solutions to employee conflicts, benefits issues, and compensation, and created a new performance appraisal system
• Maintains employees documents/files in a timely and organize manner
• Perform Performance review process
• Coordinates and represents company at job fairs and recruitment events
• Re-enforces compliance with field staff and office personnel by facilitating classes in HIPPA, safety, and yearly certification
• Ensured compliance of company directives, regulatory concerns, and health and safety protocols
• Knowledge of multiple human resource disciplines, including compensation practices, leave of absence administration, benefits administration, payroll, employee relations, performance management, and federal and state respective employment laws
• Coordinates medical care for injured employees including applicable paperwork
• Manage the administration and dispersal of over 5Mil payroll benefits, and compensation for over 500 staff members.

• Responsible for accurate documentation of intake information
• Effectively staffing the CHHA staff
• Collaborated with the Nursing Department for best outcomes
• Developed, executed and continuously managed innovative sourcing strategies to create and maintain a steady pipeline of passive candidates for hard to fill positions
• Utilized Social Networking / Social Media Recruiting, database mining and advanced Internet search techniques to discover a hidden candidate pool
• Developed and implemented recruiting strategies and sourcing techniques to target and hire candidates, drive traffic to company careers page, advertise openings, evangelize company culture and broadcast corporate message
• Identified potential candidates through the use of Boolean searches, user groups, social networking, candidate referrals, networking, web sourcing and utilizing our ATS
• Review work done by others to check for correct spelling and grammar, ensure that company format policies are followed, and recommend revisions
• Resolve customer complaints or answer customers' questions regarding policies and procedures
• Provide employees with guidance in handling difficult or complex problems or in resolving escalated complaints or disputes.