Safety and Wellbeing Lead

**Job no**: 495922
**Work type**: Permanent Full-time
**Location**: Knox Civic Centre
**Categories**: HR, OHS, L&D

**About the role**

In this role, you will collaborate closely with employees, leadership, and external partners to maintain the highest standards of safety and compliance.

You will build collaborative relationships with the People, Culture and Development team and broader key stakeholders to develop a wellbeing plan and program, maintain knowledge of all relevant OHS policies and regulations, provide strategic risk advice and early intervention injury management and wellbeing services.

As an experienced leader you will oversee work cover claims management, child safety legislation requirements, contractor management, return to work programs, investigations and risk assessments.

This is a full time permanent role based at the Civic Centre, Wantirna South. We support flexible working arrangements while ensuring operational needs of the role are met.

This is a Senior Executive Officer role, remuneration will be negotiated on experience.

**What you will bring to this role**

The key selection criteria for this role are:

- Specialist skills and applied knowledge of associated legislative Acts and Regulations relating to local government generally, but in particular industrial instruments, tax, risk management, health and safety, and injury management and rehabilitation.
- Experience in complex end to end case investigations and management in a diverse organisation.
- High level technical skills across Health, Safety & Wellbeing functions.
- Demonstrated business acumen and understanding of organisational issues and challenges and the ability to work well across different functions to integrate people and business strategies and systems.
- Extensive and diverse experience working in an OHS role involving development of strategies including change management and communications plans to support effective delivery of an OHS Management System and the development of a risk aware and interdependent safety culture.
- Significant leadership experience in HR/Risk operations within a complex environment, and the ability to lead a positive culture
- Proven capacity to prepare written documentation including policies, procedures, executive and committee reports, submissions, etc.
- Proven capacity to partner strategically with a diverse range of internal and external stakeholders to gain commitment to change, build capability and act as a trusted advisor in OHS.
- Well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assess options and consequences in delivering and implementing preferred actions and decisions within a complex and political environment.
- Proven experience in developing and delivering a Safety & Wellbeing Strategy.

**How to apply**

A link to the can be found in the job listing on our Knox City Council Jobs and Careers page.

**Why work at Knox**

Discover your future at Knox City Council, where you will deliver meaningful impact, find great opportunities and work with committed people to shape our community. As an employee of Knox, you can enjoy:

- Accrued or rostered days off available for full-time roles, depending on operational requirements
- Broad range of leave options including up to 16 weeks primary and up to 4 weeks secondary parental leave
- Salary sacrifice option for Council-owned childcare fees
- Opportunities to take on temporary roles or work in different teams to build skills and support career growth
- Support towards further study
- 50% off Knox Leisureworks memberships
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for support in managing personal and work-related challenges.

**To find out more about the benefits of working at Knox City Council, visit**knox.vic.gov.au/why-work-knox**

**Inherent requirements**

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**Our commitments**
- Knox City Council has zero tolerance for child abuse and all forms of harm to children. All children and young people who access our services, programs, events and facilities have the right to feel safe and be safe. This includes spaces owned or managed by Council. We take the wellbeing and safety of children and young people in our care seriously. We maintain a child safe organisation by embedding the protection of children into everyday thinking and practice. All Knox City Council employees, contractors and volunteers are responsible for ensuring children and young people are valued, heard and protected from abuse._
- Knox City Council acknowledges our offices are located on the traditional lands of the Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung and Bunurong people of the Kulin Nation._

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**Advertised**: 03 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time
**Applications close**: 16 Mar 2025 AUS Eastern Daylight Time