Safety Coordinator

Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC; Lara; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC – Lara, Victoria, seeks a Safety Coordinator to support the Safety and Assurance Manager and coordinate OHS within Corrections, fostering a safer workplace.

The role focuses on education about safety matters, occupational violence, slips and falls, manual handling, and psychosocial hazards, delivering practical safety guidance across stakeholders at Barwon Prison and related services.

Qualifications

• Subject matter expert in occupational health and safety management systems.
• Proven experience managing diverse stakeholders to deliver safety services.
• Knowledge of OHS legislation, codes of practice and regulations.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to delivery of operational safety initiatives with key partners.
• Build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate day-to-day safety support across processes and services.

Skills

OHS management systems

Stakeholder management

Regulatory knowledge

Education

Tertiary qualification in safety

Job description

Department of Justice and Community Safety VIC – Lara VIC

• Utilise your occupational health and safety expertise and stakeholder management skills to support Corrections Victoria.
• Ongoing, Full time opportunity.

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is seeking a Safety Coordinatorto provide a critical role at Barwon Prison.

About the Business Unit

HM Prison Barwon is a maximum-security prison located 6km north-west of Lara, 20km from the centre of Geelong and about 70km from Melbourne, and is part of the Barwon South West Regional structure. It is Victoria's major maximum-security prison for sentenced male prisoners. The prison officially opened in January 1990 and currently houses up to 416 men in custody, including high security, long term management, protection (including specialist protection), general mainstream (maximum security) and medium security prisoners.

About the Role

As the Safety Coordinator you will provide support to the Safety and Assurance Manager to partner with the operational teams by coordinating, supporting and monitoring Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) within Corrections including implementing actions related to A Safer Place to Work. The primary purpose of this role is to promote safety in a collaborative and informative manner. You will work alongside Corrections staff to educate them on all safety matters including occupational violence, slips trips and falls, manual handling and psychosocial hazards.

You will work collaboratively with a range of internal and external stakeholders to implement and drive the existing safety management system providing guidance and advice at the operational and tactical level to develop and deliver operational safety excellence in partnership with managers, supervisors, Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs) and staff to maximise the effectiveness of the safety management system.

The Safety Coordinator will work in partnership with a range of safety and wellbeing stakeholders under the leadership of the Safety Manager with a focus upon driving improved safety outcomes, through proactive preventative health and safety strategies, to address safety risks to Corrections workers.

Some of your duties will include:

• Contribute to the delivery of operational initiatives by working collaboratively with the Safety and Assurance Manager and key partners to ensure a consistent departmental and Corrections approach to the management of health, safety and wellbeing.
• Continuously build and maintain relationships with internal and external stakeholders.
• Coordinate day to day safety support and action directed at process, systems and services to support Corrections Victoria to deliver a safe and healthy workplace for staff and to meet its responsibilities under health and safety laws.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.

About you

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• Subject matter expert in occupational health and safety management systems with demonstrated business partnering experience to meet operational demand.
• Proven experience managing a diverse stakeholder group to deliver consistent and quality safety service.
• Demonstrated knowledge, understanding and experience in the application of OHS legislation, codes of practice and regulations.

Qualifications/requirements

• The relevant tertiary qualifications and/or demonstrated extensive experience in safety are desirable.
• A full and current driver's license is required due to the need to work across different locations.

The successful candidate willbe requiredto undergo pre-employment checkswhich mayincludereference checks,nationally coordinated criminal historychecks(NCCHC),andmisconduct screening. Dependant on the role, other checks may includeVicRoadschecks,driverslicencechecks, medicalchecks, Working with ChildrenChecks, andDeclaration of Private Interests (for executive and responsible officer roles).

IMPORTANT INFORMATION:

CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT:

The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.