Work Health and Safety Advisor

Division: Homes NSW- Location: Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150- Req ID: 70149**Work Health and Safety Advisor**

**Location: Parramatta CBD (4PSQ)**

**Employment type: Ongoing, Full-time (1 vacancy)**

**Salary: Clerk Grade 7/8, $106,025 to $117,363 p.a. plus employers’ contribution to superannuation and annual leave loading**

**Your role**

**Are you interested in work health and safety and would like to use your skills to help make a positive difference in our NSW social housing maintenance and delivery?**

Homes NSW is an Agency of the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ). Our vision is for NSW to be a place where everyone has access to safe and secure housing, and where experiences of homelessness are rare, brief, and non-recurring.

We lead work to deliver more quality social housing to our 262,000 tenants across NSW, empowering our tenants to live fulfilling lives and achieve their potential in inclusive communities with a focus on breaking, rather than managing disadvantage.

We strive for excellence in service delivery and most importantly, Homes NSW puts people at the heart - including our staff. Working for us means you are joining a team where your expertise and skills will be valued.

The Work Health and Safety team will deliver work health and safety compliance, training, and enquiry management across Housing Portfolio. Key activities for this team include the development, implementation and updating of WHS policies, procedures and guidelines, internal staff and external contractor WHS reporting, person and property alert projects and helping create WHS Newsletters, WHS event management and awareness projects.

As a **WHS Advisor**, you are required to provide high quality Work Health and Safety (WHS) support to the Divisions to ensure a whole-of-lifecycle approach to safety, including covering the areas of legal requirements; contractor, supplier and procurement; meeting objectives, targets and indicators, audit, monitoring and review; and consultation, communication and issue resolution.

**What you’ll do**

As a **WHS Advisor**, you will promote a culture of risk awareness and safe work practices throughout Housing Portfolio by providing expert guidance and advice on WHS risks and supporting the implementation of the WHS management system and risk management programs.

corrective action resources or assistance required.

You will be involved in the preparation of WHS performance metrics to inform senior management on divisional trends and risks. You will also participate in development of strategic work health and safety training programs and initiatives to be delivered to Housing Portfolio.

You will analyse, review, audit and recommend improvements to the WHS management system to facilitate compliance with Housing Portfolio objectives, relevant legislation, regulations/codes of practice and/or standards.

**What we’re looking for**
- Tertiary qualifications in WHS or related discipline and/or equivalent knowledge, skills and experience with demonstrated commitment
- Current driver licence and ability and willingness to travel
- Demonstrated experience in WHS and an understanding of current legislation, policy and obligations

May involve travel both locally and regionally, including overnight travel, as required by the business and/or directed.

Download the role description.

**What We Offer**

We offer a variety of benefits, including:

- A challenging and rewarding career
- Flexible, autonomous work environment
- Competitive pay and conditions
- Training and development opportunities to build and maintain capabilities
- Health & Wellbeing and Employee Assistance Programs.

While the Department of Communities and Justice offers a flexible or hybrid working arrangement some office work will be required and therefore to be considered for this role you would need to be willing to commute to Parramatta CBD (4PSQ).

Want more information? Visit our website to see more information on Working for us.

**We do work that really matters**

Working for the Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) provides lots of opportunities to make a real difference. We collaborate with other agencies and community partners, to improve lives and realise the potential of children, adults, families and communities. We're focused on breaking, rather than managing, disadvantage. It’s work that really matters.

**Are you ready to join us?**

Click apply, attach a cover letter (maximum 2 pages) outlining how you meet the requirements of the role as well as an up-to-date résumé (maximum 5 pages).

**Applications close **Sunday 3 November 2024 at 11:59pm AEDT.

**Got a question?**

Visit Recruitment adjustments on the DCJ website to learn more.

**Inclusion and Diversity lies at the heart of how we recruit**

We continue to hire great people with a wide variety of skills, experience and backgrounds. This includes people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, women, people identify