Work, Health and Safety Coordinator

6 days ago

North Ryde, Australia Achieve Australia Full time

Promote safe and compliant workplace environment
- Be part of the People Performance and Culture team
- Competitive salary and employee benefits, including salary packaging

We are looking for a Work Health and Safety Coordinator to be part of our newly created WHS team and make a difference in promoting a safe and compliant workplace environment.

**Purpose of the WHS Coordinator role**

The WHS Coordinator is entrusted with implementing the Work Health and Safety Management System. This role involves coordinating regular site inspections, conducting audits, and recommending corrective actions to foster a safe working environment, ensuring compliance with legislations, codes of practice, and industry standards.

**Why Join Team Achieve?**

At Achieve Australia, we put the people we support at the centre of everything we do. As a ‘for purpose’ organisation, we're more than just a workplace. We are a community passionate about bringing inclusion to life for people with disability.

**What reasonable adjustments can we make to our recruitment process to welcome you?**

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Collaborate with the WHS Manager and operational leaders to develop, implement, and monitor WHS solutions and improvement initiatives.
- Conduct regular site visits to perform audits, inspections, and observations, ensuring adherence to WHS company policies, procedures, legislation, codes of practice, and industry standards.
- Escalate medium-high risk matters through established processes, including risk assessments and briefing notes.
- Lead WHS investigations following the Investigation Guide.
- Coordinate WHS program initiatives across the business and ensure stakeholders are engaged and supported during the process.
- Review, update, and monitor Achieve Australia's WHS policies, procedures, practices and make improvement recommendations.
- Assist the organisation in developing tools for hazard identification, investigation, and risk management.
- Research and develop recommendations to address local WHS issues.
- Evaluate the effectiveness of WHS Management Systems, policies, procedures, and practices.
- Support the implementation of processes and systems requiring WHS involvement, such as Emergency Management, Risk Management, and NDIS Practice Standards safety requirements.

**To be successful in this role, you will need**:

- Demonstrated experience in Work Health and Safety coordination and management, ideally in the disability sector.
- Strong relationship management, influencing and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment and independently when required.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Knowledge of legislative and regulatory requirements related to Health and Safety.
- Familiarity with the NDIS Practice Standards relevant to Health and Safety.
- Effective communication skills, both verbal and written.
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office Suite and WHS databases.

Achieve Australia has been supporting people with disability for 70 years. Be part of our proud tradition.

Achieve is a registered NDIS provider delivering integrated clinical, health, social, and disability services. Join us in providing exceptional support services in accommodation, community participation supported employment, and support coordination. We operate across Greater Sydney and the Northern Rivers regions in NSW.

**What Sets Us Apart**

**Our Commitment**
At Achieve, it's more than a job. Our dedicated staff make a positive difference to the people we support each day and in turn, we support our staff. We value our team in an environment where everyone can proudly be themselves. We embrace diversity, recognising the richness that different life experiences, languages, and cultures bring to our clients and to Achieve as an organisation.
- Great employee benefits
- Salary packaging options mean you keep more of your take home pay before tax.
- Car leasing is another salary packaging option.
- Free personal and financial counselling for you and your family.
- Range of paid leave and flexible work arrangements.
- Support for a healthy lifestyle, including fitness memberships and wellness programs.
- Regular training and support to succeed in your role.
- A strong record of promoting from within.

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