Environmental Health Officer

1 week ago


Brisbane, Queensland, Australia Queensland Health Full time
About the role

  • The purpose of this role is to deliver environmental health services to protect and promote human health and prevent risks to the community arising from environmental health hazards that impact on the natural and built environment and human health

This includes:

  • Administer Queensland Health legislation related to public health;
  • Liaise with industry and members of the public about relevant legislation; and
  • Participate or lead investigations into public health issues.
About you

  • Develop, implement and evaluate environmental health projects, quality improvement and compliance programs and undertake health risk assessments, with increasing complexity and independence as experience builds.
  • Provide accurate and timely advice and support to managers, other public health practitioners, the public, industry, partners and stakeholders, including the preparation of correspondence, briefs of evidence and reports.
  • Ability to use high quality verbal and written communication and to work harmoniously within the multidisciplinary team to achieve the best public health outcome.
  • Monitor, enforce and promote compliance with public health legislation in line with policies and procedures and contemporary investigatory practice and in accordance with legislative delegations.
  • Participate in public health incident and disaster management responses and work collaboratively in a multidisciplinary team responding to communicable disease outbreaks and in the delivery of integrated public health services in the community.
  • Respect demonstrates interpersonal savvy, manages conflict appropriately, communicates effectively and balances the needs of all stakeholders with utmost respect to all people at all times.
  • Teamwork collaborates effectively, values differences and contributes to building effective teams to bring about best use of resources to deliver healthcare services.
  • Compassion demonstrates selfawareness and the effects of behaviour on others.
  • High Performance cultivates innovation, is action oriented, drives results and supports Metro North Health's vision and purpose to exceed expectations of our patients and stakeholders.
  • Integrity demonstrates sound decision quality, ensures accountability, manages complexity to ensure work output and decisions are ethical and invariably of a high standard.
Benefits when working for Metro North Allied Health

  • Flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases
  • Benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of 12.75% and access to generous salary packaging
  • Additional entitlements for employees (casual employees excluded) may include sick leave, carer's leave, long service leave, paid parental leave, leave without pay to travel, professional development allowance and leave
  • 5% annual leave loading with up to 27.5% for shift workers
  • Rewarding career and development opportunities across a wide range of clinical and nonclinical areas
  • Value driven organisation which provides a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy worklife balance

Job ad reference number:
MN533019Close date: Monday, 8th April 2024

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