Health and Safety Partner - [Archived Advertisement]

What you'll be doing 
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it. 

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.

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 encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.

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.

All NSW Health workers are required to have received at least one dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by 30 September 2021 and two doses by 30 November 2021 or have an approved medical contraindication certificate. You will be required to provide a record of your COVID-19 vaccination status if successful.

1. 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
2. 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
3. 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
4. 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
5. 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
6. 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
7. 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
8. Current drivers licence (with ability and willingness to travel throughout SESLHD, consistent with the demands of the position and customer needs)

Need more information?
  1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
  2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Jonathan Yu Han Lee on JonathanYuHan.Lee@health.nsw.gov.au

Applications Close: 2 November 2021