South Eastern Sydney Local Health District
Reference number
REQ639852
Occupation
Occupational Health and Safety
Work type
Full-Time
Location
Sydney - East
Salary Information
$ $116824
Closing date
01 March 2026 at 11:59pm
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 1
Remuneration: $87,813 - $116,824 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ639852
Location: Randwick, Sydney
Applications Close: Sunday, 1 March 2024
Where you'll be working
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Services is committed to supporting our people in maintaining a safe and healthy workplace where we can deliver the highest standards of health, safety, and wellbeing services, through continuously improving safety risk management performance, and encouraging a strong and responsible safety culture across our District. You will be working in a collaborative, supportive environment with a team that is passionate about building partnerships to provide a safe work environment for our people, and promote a healthy, safety conscious culture.
The Role
This position acts as a focal point for Health and Safety (WHS) matters and provides advisory services to support leaders, frontline managers and all health workers across South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD), in meeting safety compliance obligations and strategic direction. A key focus of this role is to collaborate and partner with our people to promote, implement, maintain, review and continuously improve the SESLHD health and safety management system and processes.
Benefits:
* 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).
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Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace
We embrace diversity as our strength and are committed to maintaining an inclusive and collaborative work environment. Our workplaces are welcoming and safe for all our employees, irrespective of their unique characteristics including age, ethnicity, cultural or spiritual background, gender identity, disability, education and social-economic status. Read about our Diversity, Inclusion and Belonging Strategy for more information.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment- and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
Information for applicants:
* If you have relevant qualifications or experience, please include any supporting documents with your application.
* Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
* Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description
* Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer
* SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural background, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Workforce Team that can also provide support (SESLHD-) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website
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