Hss Advisor

**The Team**

This role sits within Health, Safety and Security, as part of our Human Resources (HR) team. We strongly believe that no one has get hurt at work and our purpose is to cultivate an engaging employee experience and a thriving performance culture.

We aspire to create a workplace where our people are proud of our organisation, inspired by our purpose and have opportunities for growth. This advisor position is central to delivering strong health and wellbeing programs to support our people every day.

**Role Responsibilities**
- As part of a shared services team, contribute to and engage in national strategies to manage and improve safety, security and wellbeing.
- Provide specialist advice on matters including: editorial and broadcast risks, health, wellbeing, ergonomics, psychosocial risks, driving, office-related injuries and fatigue.
- Coordinate the core wellbeing awareness program, including webinars, promotion of wellbeing tools and key staff wellness campaigns.
- Maintain injury management procedures including collaborating with injury and claims management service providers to address workers compensation related matters across our different insurance schemes.
- Continue to improve our return to work programs, including acting as an internal point of contact for injury management support to People Connect and coaching leaders in RTW practices.
- Partner with business leaders and staff in your assigned business area to raise awareness of and build accountability for managing health, safety and wellbeing risks.
- Conduct safety audits and inspections.
- Actively monitor and analyse health and safety performance and contribute to the development of appropriate interventions based on effectiveness trends and gap analysis.

**Skills and Experience**
- Coordinating and delivering safety, wellbeing and health programs.
- Injury management and return to work program coordination.
- Building effective relationships as a business partner, with relevant and multiple stakeholders across teams, departments or companies.
- Proven ability in coordinating and delivering health and wellbeing programs as part of a health and safety program.
- Proven capability in developing return to work approaches and risk and injury prevention assessments.
- Sound third party vendor management skills, including partnering with insurance providers.
- Demonstrated experience and proficiency in health and safety proprietary software; such as MyOSH or similar safety reporting platforms, as well as SolvInjury (or similar), and Google Suite.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Demonstrable skills as a strong team player, able to work in a matrixed or shared services environment in a complex organisation.
- Sound judgement and independent problem-solving.
- High levels of self-motivation, time management, attention to detail and accuracy.

**News Benefits**

News Benefits is our way of saying thank you to our people for their valued contribution to News, our audiences, clients and communities. Thanking them for the great things they do daily, for the greater good of Australia. Our benefits include:

- ** Exclusively ours**:

- Access to publications and products from across the News Corp family
- ** Health & wellbeing -** Advice, support and facilities for healthy minds and bodies (including an onsite gym at our Adelaide, Brisbane & Sydney offices)
- ** Time off -** News offers a range of leave options to support your personal needs and moments that matter in life: Parental leave, Birthday leave, Volunteer leave, Career break and Compassionate leave.
- ** Helping you grow**:

- Development opportunities (including diversity and inclusion - focused education series) and recognition
- ** Financial wellbeing** - Support on making the most of your money
- ** Perks & discounts**:

- Exclusive offers across a range of products and services
- ** Giving back**:

- Make a difference to our communities.
- ** Inclusive workplace benefits & facilities -** join an employee resource group, get access to multi-faith quiet rooms or utilise our parents rooms
- We know that diversity strengthens our teams and newsrooms as we seek to tell stories that represent the diverse communities of Australia that we serve. Our people make us unique and we all have a story. We encourage people of all ages, backgrounds, races, cultures, religions, sexual orientations, abilities and gender identities to apply. Inclusion is important to us and we want everyone at News to bring their whole-selves to work. If you require any accommodations or adjustments throughout the recruitment process, or would like to outline which pronouns you prefer, please feel free to let us know._