Senior HR Business Partner - Contract-to-Perm Opportunity
Legacy Community Health | Houston, TX
Hybrid | Corporate Office + Local Clinic Support
Temporary Assignment with Potential Contract-to-Perm Opportunity
$45 - $50 per hour
Ascend HR Corp | HR Maximizer is hiring a Senior HR Business Partner for a temporary assignment supporting Legacy Community Health in Houston, TX. This is a highly visible, hands-on HRBP opportunity for someone who can quickly build trust with leaders, navigate complex employee relations matters, and support people-related business needs in a mission-driven healthcare environment.
This assignment is ideal for an experienced HR professional who has operated as a true business partner - someone who can advise leaders, handle sensitive workplace issues, support change, and connect HR solutions to business priorities.
This is not a transactional HR role. The right person will be comfortable serving as a trusted advisor, not just a policy interpreter.
Why This Assignment Stands Out
- Step into a visible HRBP role with a respected, mission-driven healthcare organization.
- Partner directly with leaders on employee relations, workforce planning, and organizational effectiveness.
- Support an HR team that is evolving into a stronger consultative and strategic partner to the business.
- Do meaningful work that supports teams serving communities across Greater Houston and the Gulf Coast region.
- Potential opportunity for permanent placement based on performance, fit, and organizational needs.
Assignment Details
- Employer during assignment: Ascend HR Corp | HR Maximizer
- Client worksite: Legacy Community Health
- Primary location: Legacy Allen Parkway, 2929 Allen Parkway, Houston, TX 77019
- Work model: Hybrid, with a combination of corporate office presence, remote work, and local clinic visits as needed
- Travel: Local travel to assigned Houston-area clinics as business needs require
- Assignment type: Temporary contract role with potential contract-to-perm opportunity; permanent placement is not guaranteed
- Compensation: $45 - $50 per hour
- Department: Human Resources
About the Role
The Senior HR Business Partner will support leaders across assigned clinics or business areas by providing strategic and hands-on HR guidance. This person will help leaders address people-related challenges, manage employee relations matters, support organizational effectiveness, and align HR solutions with business priorities.
Legacy is currently evolving its HR model with a focus on becoming stronger consultants, strategic partners, and trusted advisors to the organization. This assignment will be part of that shift. The successful candidate will bring sound judgment, strong communication skills, business acumen, and the ability to engage with leaders in a thoughtful, direct, and solutions-oriented way.
The best candidate will be able to speak clearly about real HRBP work they have done - including what they personally handled, who they partnered with, how they approached the situation, and what the outcome was.
What You Will Do
Serve as a Trusted HR Advisor
Partner directly with leaders to understand business needs, identify people-related challenges, and provide practical HR guidance. Build credibility by listening actively, asking thoughtful questions, and offering sound recommendations.
Handle Complex Employee Relations Matters
Manage and advise on sensitive employee relations issues, including workplace investigations, performance concerns, corrective action, policy interpretation, conflict resolution, documentation, and risk mitigation. Balance empathy for employees with the need to protect the organization.
Coach and Influence Leaders
Guide leaders through difficult employee situations, helping them make thoughtful, compliant, and business-aligned decisions. Provide coaching on performance management, communication, accountability, documentation, and leadership effectiveness.
Support Workforce Planning
Partner with leaders to identify talent gaps, staffing needs, retention concerns, succession risks, and organizational needs. Help translate workforce challenges into practical action plans.
Drive Change Management and Process Improvement
Support organizational change, HR initiatives, process improvements, and business transformation efforts. Help leaders communicate change effectively and align teams around new expectations, processes, or priorities.
Facilitate Trainings and Leader Discussions
Participate in HR-led trainings, leader labs, business hours, presentations, and facilitated discussions. The role requires comfort speaking in front of groups, presenting HR topics, and leading thoughtful conversations with leaders and employees.
Partner Cross-Functionally
Collaborate with HR colleagues, recruiting, operations, compliance, and other internal partners to support business priorities and deliver consistent HR solutions.
What Success Looks Like
A successful Senior HR Business Partner in this assignment will be someone who can:
- Build trust quickly with leaders and employees
- Give clear, practical HR guidance
- Handle complex employee relations issues with sound judgment
- Influence leaders without relying only on authority
- Communicate directly and professionally
- Listen actively and adapt to the audience
- Support change with confidence and empathy
- Connect HR solutions to business outcomes
- Take ownership while also partnering well with others
- Remain humble, coachable, and self-aware
Legacy values candidates who are authentic and grounded. You do not need to have a perfect answer for every situation, but you should be able to explain how you think, how you approach challenges, and what you have learned from your experience.
What This Role Is Not
This is not primarily an HRIS, payroll, benefits, or back-office HR operations role.
This is also not a role for someone who wants to remain removed from day-to-day employee relations or leader support. While the position is strategic, it is also very hands-on.
Legacy needs someone who can operate at both levels: advising leaders strategically while also helping resolve real employee and workplace issues.
Ideal Background
Strong candidates may come from backgrounds such as:
- Senior HR Business Partner
- HR Business Partner
- HR Manager with hands-on business partner responsibilities
- Senior HR Generalist with strong employee relations and leader-facing experience
- HR Director or VP from a smaller organization who remained hands-on with HRBP work
Titles are less important than the actual work performed. Candidates should be prepared to speak in detail about their hands-on experience supporting leaders and solving people-related business challenges.
Minimum Qualifications
- Bachelor's degree in Human Resources, Business, Psychology, Organizational Development, or a related field preferred
- 7+ years of progressive HR experience preferred
- Recent hands-on HRBP, HR Manager, Senior Generalist, or similar leader-facing HR experience
- Strong complex employee relations experience
- Experience coaching leaders through performance, conduct, conflict, or sensitive employee matters
- Knowledge of employment laws and HR compliance areas such as FMLA, ADA, FLSA, corrective action, documentation, and workplace investigations
- Strong communication, judgment, business acumen, and relationship-building skills
- Ability to work independently while collaborating effectively with HR and business partners
- Comfort facilitating trainings, presentations, or leader discussions
Preferred Qualifications
- Healthcare, clinic, hospital, multi-site, nonprofit, or regulated-industry experience
- Experience supporting leaders across multiple locations or business units
- Workforce planning, retention, succession planning, or organizational design experience
- Change management or process improvement experience
- SHRM-CP, SHRM-SCP, PHR, or SPHR certification
Healthcare experience is helpful, but not the only path. Legacy is also open to candidates from other complex environments who bring strong HRBP fundamentals, business partnership experience, employee relations depth, and the ability to learn.
Interview Preparation
Candidates should be ready to discuss specific examples using the STAR method: Situation, Task, Action, Result.
Legacy will want to understand:
- A complex employee relations issue you personally handled
- A time you coached a leader through a difficult employee situation
- A change management initiative you supported
- Your experience with workforce planning or talent gaps
- A time you influenced a stakeholder who disagreed with your recommendation
- Presentations, trainings, or leader facilitation you have led
- What being a strategic HR Business Partner means to you
The team values real examples over rehearsed answers. Be prepared to explain what happened, what you personally did, who you partnered with, what the outcome was, and what you learned.
About Legacy Community Health
As the largest Federally Qualified Health Center (FQHC) in Southeast Texas, Legacy Community Health has been delivering comprehensive, high-quality, and affordable health care for nearly 40 years. With more than 50 clinics across the Greater Houston and Gulf Coast region, we continue to grow strategically and invest in our communities.
By innovating how care is delivered, Legacy has stayed at the forefront of connecting communities to health - every day, in every way. Legacy's mission, Driving healthy change in our communities, guides the work across the organization.
Why This Opportunity
This is a strong opportunity for an HR professional who wants to do meaningful HRBP work in a healthcare environment where the HR team is intentionally evolving into a more strategic, consultative model.
If you can build trust with leaders, handle complex employee matters, support change, communicate clearly, and bring both strategy and hands-on execution, this assignment may be a strong fit.
Apply today in less than 3 minutes using your phone, tablet, or computer.
Pay: $45.00 - $50.00 per hour
Application Question(s):
- Briefly describe one complex employee relations issue you personally handled. What was the issue, what action did you take, and what was the outcome?
- Which best describes your recent HR experience? Please note if you have served as an HRBP, HR Manager, Senior HR Generalist, or HR leader with hands-on leader support and employee relations responsibilities.
- Describe a time you coached a manager or business leader through a difficult employee situation, such as performance management, documentation, corrective action, or conflict resolution.
- What does being a strategic HR Business Partner mean to you? Please include a brief example of how you partnered with leaders to support a business outcome.
- Are you comfortable facilitating trainings, presentations, HR business hours, or leader discussions? Briefly describe your level of comfort or any experience you have.
- Are you able to work a hybrid schedule based in Houston, TX, including corporate office presence, remote work, and local travel to assigned Houston-area clinics as needed? Are you also open to a contract-to-perm opportunity?
Work Location: Hybrid remote in Houston, TX 77019
