Employee Wellbeing and Safety Lead
7 months ago
**Join us and let’s make a bigger difference together.**
It’s an exciting time to be joining Australian Unity - we have grown significantly over recent years and are transforming to capitalise on further growth opportunities to help our customers and employees thrive. We operate with commercial principles and with a strong social purpose to create community value. Australian Unity is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Established in 1840, we’re Australia’s first member-owned wellbeing company. Today we have over $1 billion in revenue and provide smart solutions and services to more than 700,000 Australians. We employ over 7000 people and our purpose is to **Help People to Thrive**.
**Your New Role**:
The Employee Wellbeing & Safety Lead will be responsible for the implementation of consistent wellbeing and safety programs across multiple business units within the Australian Unity enterprise. The Lead will ensure that appropriate levels of service are provided by the team and will via consultation with senior people leaders determine the priorities for the team. There will be an expectation that the team are trusted advisors to business unit managers, at all levels, with strong personal relationships and the ability to influence key decision makers.
Success in this role will be measured by the achievement of consistently high levels of safety outcomes, legislative compliance, a culture of continuous improvement and a strong safe work culture.
**Your New Role Looks Like This**:
- Ensure employees and people leaders understand and are able to effectively implement employee wellbeing and safety standards to meet legislative requirements
- Provide ongoing coaching, advice and assistance regarding employee wellbeing and safety policies and procedures
- Manage the development of new procedures and tools as required
- Make recommendations for systems and process improvements
- Contribute to the creation of the employee wellbeing and safety strategy
- Positively influence employee wellbeing and safety decisions that have an impact on the business
- Assist with the reporting and analysis of employee wellbeing and safety and related data
- Assist with incident investigations and make recommendations to the business with a preventative focus
- Assist with the implementation of an auditing and assessment process that will support continuous improvement and workers compensation self-insurance
- Assist with risk assessments and the development of safe work practices
- Lead and be active in all of the ‘Safer Me’ strategies and processes project as determined by the Head of Employee Safety and Injury Management and the business.
- Participate in enterprise-wide projects to assist with the development of new procedures and tools as required and make recommendations for system improvements
**About You**:
- Relevant tertiary qualification in Health & Safety or related discipline
- Well-developed knowledge of Health & Safety, injury management and workers compensation
- Ability to work across multiple locations
- Exceptional stakeholder management skills (results will be delivered through influencing)
- Passion for and belief in employee wellbeing and safety ambitions
- Ability to manage conflicting priorities and manage expectations
- Ability to implement strategy to achieve key outcomes
- Proactive, engaged, collaborative and professional
**Your Benefits**:
You will enjoy a range of great employee benefits and rewards including:
- A range of attractive product and service discounts from Australian Unity’s Retail and Wealth Management portfolio - including health insurance and banking products
- Supported Learning and Career Development program
- Flexible Working Arrangements including Work-From-Home days with a real work-life balance
- Available access to LinkedIn Learning courses through our great Learning platform
- Additional paid Wellbeing and Community Volunteer Days yearly
**What Makes Us, Us**
Putting people first is not just something we say, it's what we do. We care for our people so they can care for themselves and our customers. We stay true to our values (Bold, Warm, Honest), we work hard because it matters and we work well together - collaborating, encouraging and even managing to have some fun.
At Australian Unity we do the right thing and we expect the same from others. Being a member-owned company, means we're focused on our members and customers, not shareholder returns. Our purpose to Help People to Thrive, drives us to make a real difference, every day, big and small. We are passionate about improving the wellbeing of all Australians and about making a positive difference.
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