Health, Safety and Wellbeing Advisor

Brimbank City Council; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 100,000 - 108,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Rostered day off

16 days personal leave per year

20 weeks paid parental leave

8 weeks partner leave

Make a positive impact to your local社区

Job summary

Brimbank City Council in Melbourne's west is seeking a proactive Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to partner with leaders and staff to prevent harm and promote wellbeing across the organisation. The role focuses on designing and implementing initiatives, risk management, incident investigations and shaping a positive safety culture.

You will bring five plus years in a Health, Safety and Wellbeing advisory role and hold relevant qualifications.

Qualifications

• Five plus years of experience in a Health, Safety and Wellbeing advisory role with appropriate supporting qualifications.
• Demonstrated passion for health, safety and wellbeing with ability to promote a proactive and positive culture.
• Experience developing risk assessments, safe systems of work and mentoring stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Deliver trusted expert advice on workplace health, safety and wellbeing; help leaders identify and manage risks.
• Design and implement health, safety and wellbeing initiatives to strengthen staff wellbeing and culture.
• Drive improvement through risk management, investigations, training and data analysis.

Skills

Health & Safety advisory

Wellbeing advocacy

Education

Relevant health & safety qualifications

Job description

Band 6: $99,873.81 - $108,307.45 per annum + Superannuation

Permanent Full Time Opportunity

Exciting opportunity to join one of Melbourne's largest municipalities.

Located in the centre of Melbourne's growing west, Brimbank City Council is a local government that is welcoming, diverse, and proud - just like the community we serve.

Being community-first underpins everything we do. We work and advocate for our community, being innovative, future-focused, and responsive; applying these same principles to the way we work with each other every day.

Brimbank is situated on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri and Bunurong people. We pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.

Every person working for Brimbank City Council shares our aspiration to make our City the best it can be!

We are currently seeking a permanent full time employee to join our Health, Safety and Wellbeing team based at our offices in Sunshine.

The role

We are looking for a proactive Health, Safety & Wellbeing Advisor to partner with leaders and employees across the organisation to prevent harm, promote physical and psychological wellbeing, and foster a culture where health, safety and wellbeing are embedded in everything we do.

Key responsibilities include:

• Delivering trusted expert advice and support on workplace health, safety, wellbeing, helping leaders identify and manage risks before they lead to harm.
• Designing and implementing health, safety and wellbeing initiatives that strengthen employee wellbeing, engagement, organisational capability and positive workplace culture.
• Driving continuous improvement through risk management, incident investigation, training, stakeholder engagement, data analysis and the enhancement of health, safety and wellbeing systems and practices.

To be considered you will have:

• Five plus years of experience in a Health, Safety and Wellbeing advisory role with appropriate supporting qualifications.
• Demonstrated passion for health, safety and wellbeing with the ability to promote a proactive and positive culture.
• Demonstrated ability to provide practical, fit for purpose solutions, whilst ensuring that legislative and business requirements are not compromised.
• Demonstrated experience in developing and reviewing risk assessments, designing safe systems of work and mentoring stakeholders.

Benefits of working at Brimbank include:

• Rostered day off
• 16 days of personal leave per year (FTE)
• 20 weeks paid parental leave (FTE)
• 8 weeks partner leave (FTE)
• Make a positive impact to your local community

Brimbank City Council actively encourages applicants from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander heritage, people living with disability, and LGBTQIA+ and people from culturally diverse backgrounds to explore the opportunity of a career at Brimbank.

If you have any support or access requirements, or would like to speak to someone about employment process please contact People Culture and Wellbeing on 92494000.

Brimbank City Council is a Child Safe organisation and endeavouring to promote child safe, child friendly practices.

To be eligible for employment at Brimbank City Council you must be an Australian citizen, permanent resident of Australia or be legally entitled to work in Australia.

Direct any queries regarding the role to: Amanda Bilotta, Acting Health Safety & Wellbeing Coordinator – ********@brimbank.vic.gov.au