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Senior Advisor WHS Policy

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Work Health and Safety

Location: Parramatta CBD (hybrid 50% onsite working arrangement)

Employment type: Ongoing, Full-time (1 vacancy, talent pool may be considered)

Salary - $129,464.00 pa - $142,665.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

The Senior Advisor is to deliver best practice Work health safety (WHS) initiatives, strategies, reporting, services, and advice across diverse work activities and divisions within the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) and Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW).

Senior Advisor Work Health and Safety

Location: Parramatta CBD (hybrid 50% onsite working arrangement)

Employment type: Ongoing, Full-time (1 vacancy, talent pool may be considered)

Salary - $129,464.00 pa - $142,665.00 pa, plus employer's contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading

Your role

The Senior Advisor is to deliver best practice Work health safety (WHS) initiatives, strategies, reporting, services, and advice across diverse work activities and divisions within the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) and Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW).

The opportunity is in Work Health Safety within People Branch. This role is focused on the strategic implement of the DCJ Safety Management System and WHS strategy. It works with a team that provides specialist WHS support, develops and delivers the departments WHS strategic programs and systems.

What You'll Do

The focus of the role is:

  • The development and communication of safety-related, policies, procedures, supporting documents, tools, and information to create an integrated DCJ Safety Management System.
  • Providing safety advice as a subject matter expert leading and/or assisting with safety initiatives including projects.
  • Supporting the development and implementation of safety consultation, communication and coordination practices within the department.

The DCJ workforce is diverse across eight DCJ divisions and in addition the WHS Group supports CSNSW as an executive agency.

The role reports to the Senior Manager, Work Health Safety and provides safety advice to Public Sector Senior Executives, Managers and Workers to ensure due diligence and compliance requirements are satisfied.

What We're Looking For

In addition to meeting the essential requirements outlined in the role description, the successful candidate must demonstrate strong capabilities in:
  • Facilitating support for WHS requirements while balancing organisational goals and working with external stakeholders, including SafeWork NSW and unions.
  • Developing WHS initiatives that meet legislative requirements whilst responding to the changing needs of the business.
  • Performing a quality assurance role by developing tools and frameworks to enable business divisions to coordinate reviews, audits, and investigations on all WHS matters.
  • Problem solving capability to embed innovative solutions to historical challenges across large complex organisations and structures.
  • Be capable of providing expert and timely advice to build and influence business areas to achieve improved safety culture.
  • You must possess a passion for WHS and the safety of staff, this must be coupled with significant experience and/or relevant qualifications in WHS.
  • It is a requirement of the role that you have the capability to use various Microsoft and Adobe software applications that enables you to perform this role.
  • You are a 'policy buff' with experience that enables you to delineate between 'work as imagined' vs 'work as done' and you can communicate this in your policy creation.
  • You must possess a current NSW Drivers licence and be willing and able to drive a motor vehicle as the role will require intrastate travel.
  • You are a natural people leader as this role may have direct reports.

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We focus on hiring people who share our commitment and goals of inclusion, collaboration, adaptability, courage and integrity. If you meet the essential requirements and the role resonates with you, please apply – you do not need to meet every desired requirement for us to want to talk to you.

What We Offer

We offer a variety of benefits, including:
  • A challenging and rewarding career
  • Flexible, autonomous work environment
  • Competitive pay and conditions
  • Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
  • Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

We do work that really matters

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It's work that really matters.

Apply now and join Australia's top public sector employer where we will support you and provide an exciting and flexible working environment

Are you ready to join us?

Requirements

Click apply, attach an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages) and a cover letter (maximum 4 pages) also addressing the 2 targeted questions below with a brief outline on how you meet the requirements of the role:

Targeted Question 1

Outline an occasion where you have identified either a potential compliance or WHS systems gap and explain how you went about mitigating or putting in place controls to manage the risk?

Targeted Question 2

Tell us about a time you have contributed to the development of a Safety Management System to ensure compliance with the relevant legislation and standards, outline the steps you took and your involvement?

Applications close Thursday, 24 July 2025 at 11:59 pm AEST.

Got a question?

For more information about the role or what it's like to work for DCJ, please contact the hiring manager Joshua Hamade on 0408 621 202 or at joshua.hamade@dcj.nsw.gov.au

If you've got a question about applying or would benefit from an adjustment in the recruitment process to help you perform at your best (including an alternate method submission of the application), please call Anjy Fayad on 02 9765 3042 or via anjy.fayad@dcj.nsw.gov.au

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identifying as LGBTIQ+, culturally and linguistically diverse people, carers and other diversity groups.

To find out what DCJ are doing to build an inclusive and diverse workforce, visit Inclusion and diversity on the DCJ website.

Other Information

A talent pool may be created for future ongoing and temporary roles and is valid for a period of up to 18 months.

For more information visit Your recruitment journey on the DCJ website.

Thank you for your interest in this role. We look forward to receiving your application.

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