Samantha Whittaker

A passionate hard working successful human resources professional with wealth of knowledge, experience and skills gained from a diverse range of occupations and industries. Adept at building and maintaining positive relationships with employees and management. Reliable team collaboration focused on achieving organisational goals and adapting to evolving business needs with strong communication and problem solving skills. It is these interpersonal skills and more importantly my passion and positivity which have been the cornerstone of my success.

• Instrumental in the transition of Suncare Community Services to the 'paperless office' - moving more than 40,000 records to online platform enabling newer hybrid opportunities. This was particularly helpful with the unfortunate Covid 19 outbreak.
• Review and coordinated the implementation of new EAP provider.
• Developed the Suncare HR Master Tracking spreadsheet which is still being used today alongside Aurion due to the ease of communication and collaboration.
• Drafted and emailed more than 600 support workers and nurses, new contracts, together with customised letters within a very tight timeframe of two weeks. Tools such as adobe and mail merge allowed me the ability to maximise efficiencies and complete the project successfully.
• Transitioned more than 600 staff to new contracts following legislative updates to the SCHADS Award within a tight legislative deadline.
• Collaborated with the various teams to evaluate and implement new HRIS necessitating excellent interpersonal, time management, accuracy and efficiency skills.

• Full Australian Driving Licence
• Australian Citizen