Emergency Management Unit Work Type: Fixed Term - Full Time Position No: Pool Ref 00012033 Closing Date: 2025-09-23 4:00 PM Attachments: Lead
our expert team in emergency response and disaster preparedness
across WA's specialist paediatric health
service.
Collaborate
across hospital and community health
environments.
Vacancy Reference
No.
CRVCID 697938 This is a Recruitment Pool
Full Time six month appointment at 76 hours with the possibility of
extension and/or permanency.
We currently have one full
time fixed term (6 months) position available.
These roles will be part of
a shared on-call roster (24-hour support),
providing emergency incident coordination and advice across
hospital and community settings Position
Profile The Child and
Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is seeking an experienced
Emergency Management Coordinator to lead and
strengthen our preparedness for incidents, emergency and disaster
events In this role,
you will engage with stakeholders at all levels of the
organisation, focusing on emergency preparedness, response
coordination, continuity planning and safeguarding the safety of
our patients, families, and staff.
You will draw on your
operational and legislative knowledge in incident coordination,
emergency planning frameworks, fire safety, emergency codes, and
infrastructure failure response.
You will also
provide expert advice and recommendations to the Emergency
Management Committee, executive groups, and external agencies and
represent CAHS at inter-agency forums to support both state-wide
and local disaster preparedness initiatives.
Key
responsibilities include: Managing the CAHS Emergency Management Unit and ensuring compliance with Australian Standards 4083 and AS3745 Planning for Emergencies in Facilities.
Developing, reviewing, and overseeing emergency procedures, business continuity plans, and Code Brown/CBRN strategies.
Leading emergency training, drills, and exercises to meet accreditation requirements.
Coordinating responses to live emergencies as part of the Hospital Incident Management Team, including activating and supporting the Emergency Operations Centre.
Building strong collaboration with internal and external stakeholders to strengthen emergency readiness.
Providing subject matter expertise to support stakeholders, research, and special projects.
If you have
experience in emergency management, ideally within a hospital or
health setting together with strong knowledge of legislation and
Australian Standards for emergency management in healthcare
facilities we encourage you to apply.
About
Our Team The Emergency
Management Unit play a critical role in supporting CAHS, including
Perth Children's Hospital (PCH) specialist paediatric
services, and associated community-based services across the Child
and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS).
We are committed to ensuring
the safety, continuity, and resilience of care for staff, and young
people—including vulnerable patients—families, and
visitors, in alignment National Safety & Quality Health Service
Standards.
Our core
responsibility is to build and maintain the organisation's
capacity to effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from a
broad range of incidents and disruptions.
These include clinical
emergencies, infrastructure failures, public health threats such as
pandemics, and external events like natural disasters.
A key focus of our work is
the delivery of emergency management training across the
organisation.
This includes the planning and facilitation of
simulations, drills, and scenario-based exercises designed to
ensure consistent standards of emergency readiness across hospital
and community sites.
And strengthen our workforce's ability
to respond effectively in critical situations.
How
to apply We welcome
your application via the 'Apply for Job' button at the
bottom of this page.
Your ability
to meet the work-related requirements will be assessed throughout
the recruitment process.
For your written application please
provide the following: A statement addressing the following selection criteria ONLY; Criteria 1 - Training or extensive experience in emergency management.
Criteria 5 - Demonstrated supervisory and leadership skills.
A written response to the scenario question below A current resume which summarises your experience and how you are able to meet the position requirements.
The name, email and contact details of two referees who can be contacted to provide an employment reference (we will contact you and seek your confirmation prior to contacting your listed referees).
Please provide a
response to the following scenario: You are
the Manager of the Emergency
Management Unit at a major metropolitan hospital in
Perth.
The facility includes over 250 inpatient beds, an Emergency
Department, ICU, and Mental Health Units.
It serves a diverse
population and is located near critical infrastructure and
transport corridors.
Following a
recent internal audit and external review by the Department of
Health, you've been tasked with leading a full-scale update
of the hospital's emergency management framework.
The goal is
to ensure full compliance with Australian
legislation, relevant standards, and
to strengthen leadership
coordination across departments.
Shortly after
initiating the update, the hospital experiences a real-world
emergency: a multi-day heatwave combined with a bushfire threat
causes mass presentations to the emergency department, power
disruptions, and partial evacuation of one wing.
You are now
responsible for leading the hospital through
the response and recovery phases.
Using your
training, experience, and leadership capabilities, describe how you
would lead this initiative from planning through to post-event
wrap-up.
Your response should demonstrate knowledge of relevant
legislation, Australian Standards, and emergency management
leadership.
These
documents should be complete and ready to attach prior to applying
online.
Please ensure you allow sufficient time to complete the
online application process as you will be required to answer
various questions and attach your documentation.
Selection
Criteria: Please see the attached Job
Description Form (available online at ).
Eligibility to
Apply: To be eligible for appointment, applicants must
have a valid working visa (for fixed term appointments) or be an
Australian citizen, permanent resident, or have a visa to live and
work indefinitely in Australia (for permanent
appointments).
Other
Conditions: WA Health engages staff in positions of
trust and responsibility.
WA Health policies require applicants to
undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as
part of the appointment process.
As well as undertaking a criminal
record screening and integrity checking, you may also be required
to undertake a working with children check (if required for the
role) and a pre-employment health assessment.
We may ask
referees to comment on your integrity and past demonstration of
ethical behaviour.
Please note that adverse information does not
necessarily disqualify an applicant but will be considered as part
of the appointment process.
WA Health is
committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the
provision of our service.
We embrace diversity and strongly
encourage applications from people from culturally diverse
backgrounds and people with disabilities.
In addition,
we are committed to growing our Aboriginal workforce as part of WA
Health Aboriginal Workforce Policy.
As a measure to achieve
equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to
this position and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are
encouraged to apply.
About
CAHS: The Child and
Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is proud to be the leading service
provider for paediatric healthcare in Western Australia, as the
State's only dedicated health service for infants, children
and young people.
CAHS comprises four service areas: Neonatology,
Community Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services
(CAMHS) and Perth Children's Hospital (PCH).
With over
6500 employees, our services are delivered at PCH and King Edward
Memorial Hospitals (KEMH), as well as across a network of more than
160 community clinics across the Perth metropolitan
area.
For further
information about the benefits of working for CAHS, please
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