Senior Environmental Health Officer

Overview

Senior Environmental Health Officer role at Metro South Health

Your New Role

This role is an opportunity to deliver high-quality Environmental Health services that protect and promote public health across the Metro South Hospital and Health Service. You will work as a key member of an interprofessional public health team, applying your expertise to complex matters while contributing to service improvement and workforce development. You will:

• Administer and interpret public health legislation, policies and standards to protect community health.
• Lead and manage investigations into complex environmental health and public health matters.
• Provide expert advice, supervision and training to less experienced staff and students.
• Drive quality improvement, service development and evidence-based practice across the Environmental Health team.
• After hours work and participation in on-call arrangements are a requirement of the position.

About You

We are looking for a motivated and knowledgeable professional with a passion for safeguarding community health. You will bring proven expertise in Environmental Health along with strong leadership, communication and problem-solving skills.

• Tertiary qualification in Environmental Health (accredited by Environmental Health Australia) with demonstrated expertise in environmental health legislation and practice.
• High-level knowledge and experience in delivering environmental health services of a complex nature.
• Strong communication, negotiation and conflict resolution skills, with the ability to work collaboratively across teams, industry and the community.
• Demonstrated ability to supervise, mentor and support less experienced staff, while leading service improvement initiatives.

What We Can Offer You

• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Community And Oral Health Services

Community and Oral Health Services deliver a broad range of quality community-based care and support services to help people improve and maintain their wellbeing and independence as well as oral health services to adults and children. We deliver a myriad of services across Metro South including Hospital in the Home, Rehabilitation, Chronic Disease, Acute Care, Dementia Outreach, Oral Health, and specialist residential care along with delivering numerous other vital community health services. Our services are delivered by multidisciplinary teams of nursing and allied health staff with the skills and experience to treat a full range of health needs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care. We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We Are Metro South Health

We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands, and the Scenic Rim operating five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty, and state-wide healthcare services. We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring. We save lives, change lives, and make the world a better place. We are part of and proud of the community we serve. We are better together.

Occupational group

• Health - Allied Health/Clinical Support

Seniority level

• Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Other

Industries

• Hospitals and Health Care

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