Safety Quality Assurance Adviser

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Department of Justice and Community Safety

**Salary**: $103,920 - $125,735

Occupation: Occupational Health and Safety

Reference: VG/DJ0909JAN23

At the Department of Justice and Community Safety, we’re looking for people who want to make a difference. People who take pride in their work. People who get things done. People who are committed to making Victoria a safer place.

We embrace diversity and strive to have a workforce that reflects the community we serve. We’re all about recruiting the best people, regardless of gender, age, disability, religion, sexual orientation, or cultural background. If you think you can do the job and would be a good fit for our department, we’d love to hear from you.

The department is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and recognises that children’s rights need to be respected, their views welcomed and valued, and their concerns taken seriously and acted upon.

For more information on working with us and our recruitment process, please visit justice.vic.gov.au/careers

We’re proud of the important work we do across Victoria. Want to be part of it?

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Safety, Wellbeing and Compliance team as a Safety Quality Assurance Adviser.

**Safety Quality Assurance Adviser, Department of Justice and Community Safety**
- **Ongoing full-time VPS5 role based in Melbourne CBD**:

- **Enhance and refine the occupational health and safety management system (OHSMS)**:

- **Contemporary approach to occupational health and safety (OHS)**

**About the Business Unit**

The Safety Quality Assurance Adviser sits within Safety, Wellbeing and Compliance, a branch of People, Safety and Culture in the Department of Justice and Community Safety. The Safety, Wellbeing and Compliance branch provides process, systems and services to support the Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department) to meet its responsibilities under Health and Safety Laws (_Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, Dangerous Goods Act 1985 and Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013_).

People, Safety and Culture core functions span the breadth of workplace cultural and people matters, including human resource policy and strategy; organisational culture and change; recruitment, redeployment, and retention; performance and development; pay, benefits and workforce reporting; occupational health and safety management; and employment regulations.

**About the Role**

The Safety Quality Assurance Adviser leads the refinement, enhancement, monitoring and evaluation of the department's OHSMS, to ensure process improvement and the provision of user focused documentation and tools to provide a proactive system addressing health and safety risks and meeting legislative and industry standards. The Safety Quality Assurance Adviser actively develops, enhances, and implements user-driven access to the occupational health and safety management system through the departments intranet platform, including the engagement of users, user feedback and monitoring system use and activity.

**About You**
- Thrive on making complex topics easy to understand
- Have strong written communication skills
- Have a proactive can-do attitude, be flexible and comfortable working in a fluid environment
- Have solid organisational skills and ability to manage multiple projects and priorities
- Be experienced in utilising HPE Content Manager (TRIM), MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint.
- Qualifications/Requirments:_
- A tertiary qualification or progress towards in an OHS or related discipline is desirable
- Formal training in the implementation and maintenance of OHS management systems
- Lead auditor in OHS management systems.
- To learn more about the skills you will need to succeed in this role, please read the position description attached to this advertisement._

**How to Apply**

**_ FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES:_**

**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:
The department is committed to providing and maintaining a working environment which is safe and without risk to the health of its employees consistent with the department's obligations under the Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004 (Vic). Therefore, there is a requirement that all DJCS employees be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 in order to undertake duties outside of their homes.

At interview stage and prior to commencement of employment with the department, you will need to provide evidence that you are vaccinated against COVID-19 with **three doses** of a COVID-19 vaccine.

Upon commencement of employment with the department you will be required to provide evidence that you have an up-to-date vaccination status within the timelines specified by the department into the DJCS Service Portal. This includes evidence of **three doses** of a COVID-19 vaccine required by the department (from time to time).

Acceptable evidence includes:

- COVID-19 digital certificate or