Manager, Safety Health and Wellbeing

23 hours ago

Brisbane, Australia Children, Youth Justice and Multicultural Affairs Full time

Youth Detention Operations and Reform is responsible for supporting best practice youth detention service delivery in Queensland.

**Key activities of the team include**:

- Developing operational policy and procedures to guide the practice and operations of youth detention service delivery and other places of secure custody for young people (including watchhouses and court cells).
- Providing practice support for staff, stakeholders and services working with young people in youth detention centres.
- Leading major practice improvement projects.
- Responding to oversight functions and actioning recommendations.
- Administering a range of statutory reporting functions.

**The Manager's key responsibilities are**:

- Lead the implementation of a Safety, Health and Wellbeing Framework for youth detention centres and lead and manage the development of youth detention centre specific safety management system procedures, in consultation with internal and external stakeholders.
- Lead and manage the development of strategies and initiatives to collaboratively work to mitigate and/or manage risk, including physical and psychological risk, with an aim of reducing workplace related injuries and/or illness and provide for continuous improvement across all youth detention centres.
- Lead, support, coach and mentor a team of geographically dispersed Principal Advisors and Safety, Wellbeing and Injury Management Advisors to develop safe systems of work, including policy and procedural development for work health and safety.
- Support and provide high-level, strategic and expert advice to Youth Detention Centre (YDC) Executive Directors (ED's) in regards to due diligence and legislative obligations under the various pieces of legislation
- Provide expert advice on matters relating to work health and safety, including the effective management of workplace incidents, WorkCover claims, and return to work programs.
- Monitor compliance with work health and safety legislation and identify strategic initiatives to improve health and safety within youth detention centres.
- Transform health and safety statistics into meaningful trend analysis and risk mitigation strategies.
- Lead the development and implementation of wellbeing programs and initiatives.
- Lead, develop, maintain and promote significant stakeholder engagement including with senior leaders, nominated health and safety representatives, union officials and inter-governmental networks, particularly WorkCover, and QSuper.
- Actively attend and participate in youth detention centre work health and safety reviews and Injury Case Management meetings.
- Prepare high level briefs, correspondence and reporting about youth detention centre specific health, safety and wellbeing matters.
- Provide expert advice to various committees and boards, including consultative and workplace health and safety committees.

Applications will remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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