Pros
Depending on the facility you work for- it can either feel like your extended family or incredibly isolating. Some perks of working in an HIH facility mean you get to use gym facilities and participate in some of the host facility activities. The CEO of the facility I worked for is amazing. She promoted from CNO to CEO and had done a great job winning over the staff and treating everyone with respect. She holds people accountable and has high expectations for her team. The leadership team works incredibly well together and made it a great place to want to come to work every day.
Cons
Your title is an HR Coordinator, yet you are expected to make decisions as a manager. When something negative happens, it's your responsibility to own and fix, yet you have no actual authority to correct it. Example - when licensure expires it is the HRCs responsibility to notify the CNO/Dept. Manager that this person needs to come off the schedule until the credentials are reinstated. When the manager does not remove them from the schedule and the employee continues to work, the HRC is the one on calls being told how you are not being compliant and that they need to ensure that this doesn't happen again. The HRC does not have the authority to pull an employee off the floor or remove the m from the schedule as they are not a manager, yet they take the fall whenever situations like this occur and the facility is no longer in compliance. Additionally, they are responsible for making sure all BLS/ACLS/Licensure/Attendance/Employee Health Records/Education/Competencies/Etc. are all current for all employees 100% of the time and they are the only HR person at the facility to do this. In addition, you are responsible for all ground level payroll duties, LOA management and work comp, full cycle recruitment, onboarding & orientation, employee relations/disciplinary action (notification to manager, since you can't actually write an employee up for violating policy), ordering uniforms and badges, as well as boosting employee morale and engagement. Oh, and you have to manage all the agency contracts, onboarding, files, etc. as well. There is just TOO much work for one person to be 100% amazing at every single piece, there needs to at least be an assistant to help since 100% of everything is your responsibility to get done. If you don't do it, it doesn't get done and you get behind, meaning no PTO for you. There is a definite divide between clinical and administrative staff. The corporate team expects the local administrative team to jump in and work weekends and holidays like the clinical staff does because "they have to work holidays." Newsflash - A person can do HR at any hospital, school, business, etc., working in a hospital doesn't mean I have to work a clinical person's schedule. They chose that career path that requires those hours, I did not. It is incredibly difficult to use the PTO you receive if you work in a hospital that is in their Joint Commission window or is under constant threat of state surveys.
