Akhil Babu

As a Head of People and Culture, I oversees all aspects of human resources and organizational culture, ensuring a positive work environment and aligning HR practices with the organization's goals. This includes leading strategic human resource initiatives, providing HR advice, and managing the HR business environment, including organizational development and workplace safety.

Roshana Care Group provides Aged Care, Mental Health Care, Retirement Living and Independent Living services in WA, NSW, QLD and VIC. They are also a Registered NDIS Provider. Established in 2001, with over 20 years experience in healthcare. Roshana strive to maintain the highest possible standards, providing care with compassion and kindness to make our facilities a home away from home for all residents

Key responsibility areas

• Developing and implementing the people and culture strategy, including workforce planning, recruitment, retention, and employee experience.
• Leading initiatives to foster a positive and engaged work environment, promoting a learning culture, and ensuring a diverse and empowered workforce.
• Providing timely and accurate HR advice and support to the leadership team, including performance management, disciplinary matters, and grievance handling.
• Maintaining effective relationships with employees and their representatives, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, and managing industrial relations matters.
• Identifying and facilitating training and development programs, overseeing performance management processes, and promoting professional development opportunities.
• Overseeing the organization's HRIS systems, ensuring accurate data management and reporting
• Overseeing the WHS function, including worker's compensation and return-to-work program.
• Developing and implementing culture programs to reflect and reinforce the organization's values, and driving initiatives that embed those values into practice.
• Providing expert advice on performance management and disciplinary processes, and facilitating investigations and terminations.
• Managing the recruitment and selection process, including advertising, on-boarding, and the preparation and management of employment contracts.
• Developing relevant metrics and reporting to monitor workforce effectiveness, and ensuring HR audits to evaluate HR functions.
• Staying up-to-date with employment legislation and HR industry trends, and ensuring that HR policies and procedures are aligned with legal frameworks.
• Maintaining effective relationships with employees, managers, and other stakeholders.
• All other duties directed by the Chief Executive officer and Co-Chief Executive Officer.
• Supporting the business through guidance and advice on key remuneration policies, ensuring governance and understanding across the business.
• Establishing and maintaining key network of contacts to facilitate the exchange of remuneration information.

Hilton Hotel and Resorts is a global brand of full service hotels and resorts and the flagship brand of Hilton. Hilton has 18 different brands and more than 7000 hotels worldwide.

Key responsibility areas:

• Develop best practice industry training and education material content as required
• Partner with Department Heads to source the right people for each position, ensuring that we recruit individuals who can deliver exceptional hospitality to the guests.
• Liaise and work with our various departments and managers to ensure that our team are recognized and rewarded for living the values.
• An ability to interpret awards and the EA in line with LMS and flexible work practices.
• Providing advice regarding counselling and discipline.
• Conducting disciplinary meetings with Team Members and their Department Head.
• Providing advice around our T&A systems (or knowing where to go to get advice).
• Listening to TM grievances and assisting with mediation if necessary.
• General HR Administration as required
• Ensure a fair, safe and productive working environment for the team, through the management of our various committees and adherence to numerous legislative requirements.
• The administration and processing of all new Workers’ Compensation Claims in line with the legislation, creating RTW plans for TM’s and looking for patterns or repeated claims, evolving strategies to combat.
• Maintaining a safe workplace and encouraging the team to do the same.
• Maintaining visa checks to ensure that all the team have the right to work in Australia.
• Assisting with 457/RMs etc. as and when required.
• Completes month-end HR reports as required.
• Completes annual EOWA report as required.
• Ensuring that the Diversity programs allow fairness for all.
• QA Compliance.
• Establish, maintain and review the OSH policy
• Ensure their ongoing conversance with OSH and IM in the workplace
• Ensure a systematic OSHIM program is established
• In consultation with Team Members, set OSH and IM targets to achieve policy intent
• Lead by example, adhering to all policy systems and processes developed and implemented
• Ensure all subordinates are aware of, and have the skills to facilitate the policy
• Be accountable and responsible for OSH and IM at the highest level
• Ensure commitment, particularly at management and line management levels to achieve policy intent, program requirements and Team Member involvement
• Raise and discuss Workplace Safety and Health issues at management and departmental meetings
• Promote a safe workplace culture by listening to Team Members concerns and focusing on the long term, sustainable implementation of the OSHIM system
• Ensure all Team Members are made aware of their OSH and IM responsibilities
• Incorporate OSH as a key performance indicator in Team Members performance reviews
• Review the provisions of the OSHIM system on an annual basis to ensure relevance and currency and to achieve continuous improvement.

Aegis Aged care group consistently excel in providing care services and quality accommodation for the elderly in Western Australia. Providing quality care and services for 30 years, Aegis is passionate about using innovation and imagination to continually improve the care, quality of life and home environment of the people who live with us. Aegis currently provides quality care and services across 27 Residential Aged Care Facilities and employs more than 3700 employees.

Key responsibility areas:

• Reporting directly to the Executive People & Culture, this position is responsible for the internal HR management function, including recruitment and selection, terminations, position description development, performance management, salary reviews/recommendations, change management, Learning and development, and roster standardisation.
• Consult with Executive and Senior Managers to develop company-wide attraction, recruitment, retention, and selection strategy.
• Coach, guide, and direct Manager with implementing best practices through the employment life cycle.
• Determining Aegis’ annual Learning and Development plan, including developing a systematic approach to existing mandatory compliance training programs across all facilities.
• Develop best practice industry training and education material content as required.
• Manage and rollout of L&D programs, monitor effectiveness, and implement continuous improvement.
• Assist Manager People & Culture to develop a strong and positive organisational culture through culture focussed development programs.
• Develop, implement comprehensive organisational programs that positively impact staff morale, teamwork, and performance of employees.
• Work with IT to implement a user-friendly People & Culture Intranet.
• Management of the external payroll system, including kiosk and associated internal training.
• This position was responsible for the organisation's Registered Training Organisation (RTO) in delivering accredited and non-accredited training, including Cert IV Ageing, Diploma of leadership Training for FM's and CNM's, and other certificate courses.
• Project Manager for the creation and managing of the new LMS called Litmos.
• Create KPI reports for Facility Manages, Chief Executive officer, Chief operating officer, and Executive of people and culture.
• Create and analyse completed and overdue reports for Accreditation purposes.
• Manage and organise training for all the staff in the Nursing and Hospitality departments.
• Organise training with different RTO's such as AMA, I college.
• Reviewing and development of the HR budget.
• Processing all training requests, including researching training providers and undertaking training needs analysis.
• Co-ordination of Quality Assurance program including undertaking audits.
• Research, develop and implement policies and procedures.
• Communicate with Schools and RTOs to arrange Traineeship and apprenticeships.
• Communicate with DTWD and Apprentice Support to collect the initial and completion incentives for Traineeship.
• Arrange meetings with recruitment consultancies to provide sufficient staff to the organisations.
• Collect wage subsidies and ensure staff has been provided with sufficient hours to be eligible for the process.
• Create and analyse turnover reports of each department, role, and facility.
• Assist in roster standardisation process for 30 facilities.
• Advertise Jobs: Selection and screening criteria, design and facilitate competency, Interviewing, Negotiating offers, and onboarding.
• Regularly check visas and police clearances.
• Apply police clearances through Crimcheck.
• Apply, process, and monitor company sponsored visas.
• Identify areas for continuous improvement and make business cases for change.
• Assist with HR duties during periods of leave.
• HR policy development.
• Advise Facility Managers in the procedures of student placements.
• Develop an employer engagement strategy that builds a community profile and meets the employment needs of key businesses and employers.
• Through the Account Managers, develop and actively seek out new business and partnerships that meet organisation caseload employment needs.
• Promote and foster an excellent working relationship with Aegis sites to assist in providing employment opportunities for their job seekers to compliment their placement and employer activity.
• Manage the practices and processes to meet compliance activities around filling of vacancies for employers and job seekers in a timely manner.
• Identify and implement employer engagement activities across the employment region to enhance performance.
• To liaise with line Managers of individual sites, Regional Managers and General Manager.
• Comply with all WHS procedures ensuring that team members including volunteers and contractors abide by all relevant health and safety procedures.
• Act as a role model by demonstrating safe work behaviours and immediately reporting all accidents, incidents, or near misses.