Consultant, Wellbeing

Location: Melbourne | CBD

Job type: Full time / Ongoing

Organisation: Department of Health

**Salary**: $95,102 - $107,905

Occupation: Human Resources

Reference: VG/DH/POLR/722797

The Department of Health plays a critical role in the Victorian health system and is responsible for shaping it to meet the health needs of all Victorians. We’re focused on supporting Victorians to be as healthy as they can; whether through alerting them to seasonal risks like thunderstorm asthma, notifying them of contact with communicable diseases, safeguarding their drinking water, developing the best health, wellbeing and care facilities in the world, being at the forefront of mental health and wellbeing treatment or accelerating medical research. It’s all part of the way we partner with the community to help every individual lead a healthy life.

**About the role**:
This position is responsible for assisting with the strategic direction and delivery of the employee wellbeing and support programs for departmental staff.

Aimed at reducing workplace risk, injury, and absenteeism, the role provides specialist advice and guidance regarding the health, safety, and wellbeing of all staff in line with the department's strategic commitments to creating a safe and healthy workplace.

The role requires both technical expertise and understanding of internal policy, procedures, and state legislation. The role also requires an ability to foster partnership with internal and external stakeholders.

**About us**:
At the Victorian Department of Health we want a future where Victorians are the healthiest people in the world. A Victoria where our children and people thrive, our workplaces are productive and safe, and our communities are more connected.

We see it as our job to support Victorians to stay healthy and safe. And to deliver a world-class healthcare system that ensures every single Victorian can access safe, quality care that leads to better health outcomes for all.

**How you'll make a difference**:
**Suitable applicants will be able to demonstrate**:
**Knowledge and Skills**

Problem Solving - Seeks all relevant information for problem solving; liaises with stakeholders; analyses issues from different perspectives and draws sound inferences from information available; identifies and proposes workable solutions to problems; implements solutions, evaluates effectiveness and adjusts actions as required.

Stakeholder Management - Identifies issues in common for one or more stakeholders and uses to build mutually beneficial partnerships; identifies and responds to stakeholder's underlying needs; uses understanding of the stakeholder's organisational context to ensure outcomes are achieved; find innovative solutions to resolve stakeholder issues.

Influence and Negotiation - Adapt the content, style, message or tone of a presentation to suit the audience and plans how to tackle objections; sells own ideas by linking them to others' values, needs and goals; negotiates and implements a well-planned course of action to achieve a specific outcome.

Organisational Awareness - Understands issues and pressures to which the organisation has to respond; understands the reasons behind the organisational climate and culture

**Personal Qualities**

Creativity and Innovation - Generates new ideas; draws on a range of information sources to identify new ways of doing things; actively influences events and promotes ideas; translates creative ideas into workplace improvements; reflects on experience and is open to new ways to improve practice.

Planning and Organising - Sets clearly defined objectives and priorities and operates accordingly, reviewing and adjusting as required; identifies processes, tasks and resources required to achieve a goal; establishes systems and procedures to guide work and track progress; recognises actual and potential barriers and finds effective ways to deal with them.

Relationship Building - Establishes and maintains relationships with people at all levels; promotes harmony and consensus through diplomatic handling of disagreements; forges useful partnerships with people across business areas, functions and organisations; builds trust through consistent actions, values and communication; minimises surprises

Teamwork - Cooperates and works well with others in the pursuit of team goals; collaborates and shares information; shows consideration, concern and respect for others' feelings and ideas; accommodates and works well with the different working styles of others; encourages resolution of conflict within group.

**Qualifications / Specialist Expertise**

Qualifications - A qualification in occupational health and safety or allied health is desirable.

Specialist Expertise - Demonstrated high level understanding of and expertise in the design, implementation and embedding of programs relating to prevention, early intervention, and appropriate response is expected.

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