Safety and Wellbeing Senior Advisor. Permanent Full Time - Brisbane

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff, clients, and their families to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better.  If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About this role

The purpose of the Safety and Wellbeing Senior Advisor role is to engage and partner with the business to implement and maintain safety and wellbeing strategies, initiatives, and activities within the relevant programs, predominately within Queensland. You will also be responsible for influencing, coaching and guiding your stakeholders to build their skills and facilitate the management of critical and local risks. Working in a permanent, full time capacity this position will be located in our Milton office with some flexibility to work remotely, occasional travel will be required.  

To be successful in this role you will have a partnership approach and demonstrate strong relationship building skills to drive safety outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage and support the business to achieve functional and business plan outcomes and other organisational programs and initiatives
• Partner with local leadership to oversee health and safety compliance of all work sites in their portfolio, ensuring the business have the required health and safety policies, procedures and systems in place to manage risks and meet regulatory responsibilities.
• Implement local or national projects supporting critical risk management and continuous improvement in safety and wellbeing.
• Lead the completion of incident investigations, reporting activities and support workplace risk assessments where required.
• Conduct internal safety and wellbeing audits and monitor non-conformance in key areas such as fire inspections, asbestos registers.
• Monitor compliance of contractor and third-party health and safety requirements and escalate to internal stakeholders as appropriate; Property and Fleet.
• Deliver safety and wellbeing training as appropriate. Work in partnership with Learning & Development for accredited or specialised training such as HSR, First Aid (including Mental Health FA), CPR.

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health and Safety, or related field (or equivalent work experience)
• Demonstrated understanding of current legislative requirements within workplace health safety and environment
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring a safety management system within a geographically dispersed organisation operating in multi-site locations
• Experience in similar Health and Safety partnering role in medium to large-sized organisations
• A self-motivated, results-orientated individual with proven experience in building relationships through a partnership approach
• Proven experience in supporting a strong safety culture resulting in improved safety performance
• Experience in a similar position within a Human Services organisation or as an Allied Health Professional with safety risk management experience preferable

The successful candidate will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's leading social purpose organisations
• Excellent tax benefits and rostered days off
• Opportunity to make a huge impact to the lives of our front-line workers and their clients

How to Apply

Include your resume and covering letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries including persons with disability that require adjustments, contact Debra Neil at recruitment@lwb.org.au

Applications close at midnight Tuesday 30th January 2024.

To be considered for and appointed to a position at Life Without Barriers, you must be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 with a minimum of two (2) doses or hold a valid medical exemption certificate, in accordance with Life Without Barriers Employee COVID-19 Vaccination Policy. You will be required to provide evidence of your vaccination status during the recruitment process.

We are dedicated to playing our part to reduce the spread of COVID-19 and bring continuity of care and support to our clients. With this in mind, if you are successful, we will discuss with you an alternative to a face to face interview.

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here https://bit.ly/2GzZGWA