Health, Safety and Wellbeing Specialist

4 weeks ago


Canberra, Australia Australian Government Full time

Salary: $91,244 - $105,509
- Location: ACT - Various,NSW - Various,QLD - Various,SA - Various,TAS - Various,VIC - Various,WA - Various

**Job Number**:EXT-APSL-2024-1561
**Classification**:APS Level 6
**Salary Range**:$91,244 - $105,509 +15.4% Superannuation

**Job Type**:Ongoing,Non-ongoing
**Employment Type**:Full-time
**Group/Division/Branch**:Corporate Enabling / Wellbeing & HR Support / Health and Safety
**Locations**:ACT - Various,NSW - Various,QLD - Various,SA - Various,TAS - Various,VIC - Various,WA - Various

The Health and Safety Branch is responsible for developing and implementing the policies and procedures that ensure the agency achieves its safety outcomes required by work health and safety (WHS) legislation.

The Branch provides leadership, advice, and support to Services Australia (the agency) on work health and safety to achieve safe workplaces for staff, visitors, and customers. The Branch ensures high quality delivery and improvement of a range of work health and safety activities including but not limited to advice and support in work health and safety, customer aggression prevention, employee wellbeing, as well as support and options to staff and leaders on inappropriate workplace behaviour, bullying and harassment (including sexual harassment) to assist the agency in minimising work health and safety risk.

Health and Safety, Employee Wellbeing and Organisational Psychology Manager roles can be offered in various teams within the Health and Safety Branch:
**Customer Aggression Prevention Team**
The Customer Aggression Prevention team develops and improves policy and procedures to achieve safe workplaces for staff, visitors, and customers.

**Employee Wellbeing Team**
The Employee Wellbeing team provides consistent advice, information, and resources to promote employee health and wellbeing in the workplace.

**Safe Service Design Team**
The Safe Service Design team works with business to implement effective approaches to mitigate risks and support workers involved in emotionally distressing work and are a key contributor to job re-design and process improvement considering health and safety implications of programmes, customer behaviour and interactions.

**WHS Governance and Strategy Team**
The WHS Governance and Strategy team designs, maintains, and reports on the agency's work health and safety system to promote safe working.

**WHS Delivery Team**
The WHS Delivery team supports managers to identify and mitigate WHS risks in consultation with workers and Health and Safety Representatives (HSRs), and conduct safety assurance audits and WHS incident investigations.



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