Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partner

About South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD)

Health, Safety and Wellbeing Services is dedicated to supporting our workforce by fostering a secure and healthy workplace. We aim to deliver the highest standards of health, safety, and wellbeing services through continuous improvement in safety risk management performance and promoting a strong, responsible safety culture across our District. You will thrive in a collaborative, supportive environment alongside a team passionate about building partnerships to ensure a safe work environment and cultivate a health and safety-conscious culture.

The Role of a Health, Safety and Wellbeing Partner

This position serves as a central point for Work Health and Safety (WHS) matters, offering advisory services to leaders, frontline managers, and all health workers throughout South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD). Your primary objective will be to help the District meet its safety compliance obligations and strategic direction. A critical aspect of this role involves collaborating and partnering with our people to promote, implement, maintain, review, and continuously enhance the SESLHD health and safety management system and processes.

Benefits of Working at SESLHD

• Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
• Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
• Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport.
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
• Discounted Private Health Insurance.

Selection Criteria

• Relevant qualifications in Work Health and Safety (WHS) e.g., Certificate IV in WHS, or relevant equivalent work experience, or a combination of qualifications and work experience.
• Demonstrated experience in leading and/or conducting safety audits and investigations, with completion of quality or safety audit training, or willingness to gain this experience.
• High standard of verbal communication skills, interpersonal and influencing skills and the ability to develop and maintain effective working relationships with senior management, peers and other key stakeholders.
• Demonstrated high standard of written communication skills with the ability to prepare reports, develop quality presentation material and other communication media, and educational material in relation to health safety and wellbeing.
• Demonstrated high level analytical and problem solving skills including the ability to provide valued and expert advice and recommendations across a large and complex organisation.
• Customer focused and ability to build and maintain effective and collaborative working relationships with key stakeholders to meet priorities and performance expectations and achieve objectives.
• Highly motivated, agile and resilient, with ability to work to tight deadlines, changing priorities, within a challenging, changing environment, and varying stakeholders with differing perspectives and expectations.
• Current drivers licence (with ability and willingness to travel throughout SESLHD, consistent with the demands of the position and customer needs).

Key skills/competency

• Work Health and Safety (WHS)
• Safety Compliance
• Risk Management
• Safety Audits
• Incident Investigations
• Stakeholder Engagement
• Communication Skills
• Policy Implementation
• Training & Education
• Analytical Problem Solving