Workplace Health & Safety (Whs) - Healthscope

Healthscope; Melbourne; On-site; AUD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Cross-hospital flexibility

Discounted health insurance

CPD support

Job summary

Healthscope is seeking an experienced Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist for The Victoria Clinic in Prahran. You will champion safety culture, influence leaders and drive the HSW strategy to improve workplace health and wellbeing across a mental health environment.

You’ll lead the HSW Improvement Plan, collaborate with the Executive Team and Managers, and shape compliance and safety leadership while delivering practical safety improvements daily.

Responsibilities

• Build capability and ownership across leadership teams through coaching, influencing and embedding best-practice HSW systems and programs.
• Lead from the front with visible, proactive safety engagement across site operations.
• Drive safe systems of work, investigations, and leadership development through education and monitoring initiatives.
• Provide specialist advice to Managers, Supervisors, committees and contractors to identify risks and innovative solutions.
• Play a key role in risk management—facilitating assessments, developing SOPs, and leading investigations.
• Monitor and uplift performance—prepare reports, close gaps and track trends with autonomy to implement improvements.
• Support regulatory compliance through inspections, accreditation activities and alignment with standards.

Job description

Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist

Ready to make a real impact where it truly matters? Healthscope is on the lookout for a passionate and experienced Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Specialist to champion safety culture and drive meaningful change at The Victoria Clinic in Prahran.

This is your opportunity to step into a role where you’ll influence leaders, empower teams, and shape the future of workplace health, safety and wellbeing across a dynamic mental health environment.

• Continuous professional development, education & support provided
• Inclusive, values-led workplace
• Work alongside passionate, collaborative professionals.

About the Role

As the HSW Specialist, you’ll be the driving force behind the site’s HSW Improvement Plan. Working closely with the Hospital Executive Team, Department Managers, Supervisors and the Health & Safety Committee, you’ll lead, guide and support the implementation of our HSW Strategy and Management System.

Your expertise will help ensure compliance, strengthen safety leadership, and create a culture where every person feels safe, supported and confident at work.

What You’ll Be Doing

• Build capability and ownership across leadership teams through coaching, influencing and embedding best-practice HSW systems and programs.
• Lead from the front with visible, proactive and field-based safety engagement.
• Drive safe systems of work, quality investigations, and strong safety leadership through education, coaching and monitoring initiatives.
• Provide specialist advice to Managers, Supervisors, committees and contractors to identify risks, opportunities and innovative solutions. Work closely with Executive and Department Heads.
• Play a key role in risk management—facilitating assessments, supporting SOP development, verifying controls and leading LTI investigations.
• Monitor and uplift performance, preparing reports, developing gap closure plans and supporting executive teams to track trends, hotspots and achievements. You will have autonomy to implement practical safety improvements.
• Support regulatory compliance by participating in inspections and ensuring continual alignment with standards and requirements. Play a key role in accreditation and quality initiatives.
• Contribute nationally, participating in state and national initiatives, strategic programs, forums and advisory committees.

Why Healthscope?

When you join Healthscope, you become part of our Community of Care. Our people are at the heart of our organisation - no matter the role, every day our people make a difference to the lives of our patients and their families. As the only national private hospital operator and healthcare provider in Australia, our sites are supported by our central Support Office, enabling them to provide an exceptional experience for the communities we care for.

You’ll also benefit from:

• Flexibility to work across one or multiple hospitals across our network.

• Discounted health insurance (non-casuals only)

• Continuous professional development, education & support provided to encourage growth

We pride ourselves on working with talented, passionate and caring people to ensure our patients receive the highest quality care and experience during their stay with us. We support each other, share learnings, celebrate successes and face challenges together.

Come and be the difference in our patient's lives.

More Information:

Our commitment to quality and safety for our patients, staff and visitors is our highest priority. We are also committed to child safety. We are committed to the safety, participation and empowerment of all children. Applicants will be required to provide a current National Police check, WWCC (where applicable) and Evidence of right to work in Australia prior to appointment. Staff in patient contact roles will be required to provide proof of immunity to specified infectious diseases as a Category A Healthcare worker.