Principal Advisor Health Safety & Wellbeing
Job description
About the Organisation
This Government Department is uncompromisingly customer-focused delivering a key service in a supportive, inclusive and team-focused environment.
About the Role
Reporting to the Human Resources Manager and forming a crucial part of the Human Resources team, this role will provide Health and Safety advice and project support across the department. Please note this will be a 3-month contract with the possibility to extend. Responsibilities include;
Providing influential advice and leadership on a range of workplace health and safety and governance issues.
Providing effective case management for governance, ethics, rehabilitation and return to work matters.
Supervising the implementation of a range of strategic WHS initiatives and projects.
Undertake research and analysis of organisational data to identify trends, opportunities, issues and challenges, centering on WHS.
Prepare comprehensive and sensitive reports, submissions, briefs in relation to a range of human resources issues.
About You
You will be an experienced WHS Advisor with proven experience providing workplace health and safety advice and support within a corporate environment.
Qualifications in Human Resources, Occupational Health and Safety or a related discipline highly regarded.
Demonstrated experience leading and developing WHS teams.
High level working knowledge of Human Resources practices, expert level Workplace Health and Safety knowledge.
Strong stakeholder engagement skills with the ability to work across multiple business areas and senior officers.
Exceptional attention to detail, accuracy and analysis skills.
Demonstrated experience creating strategy and partnering with leaders to build safety cultures, whilst you also enjoy contributing at an operational level.
This 3- month contract role offers the opportunity to join a values-based organisation to develop and enhance the Workplace Health and Safety function.
For further information please contact Jessica O’Neill at Troocoo on 0431 132 206 for a confidential discussion.
Alternatively, if you are interested in the position, please apply below and we will make sure we will get back to your application shortly.