Safety Advisor, Clerk Grade 7/8

**Safety Advisor, Clerk Grade 7/8, Wollongong**
- Join a team dedicated to the safety of our members
- Work in a volunteer-based agency supporting communities of NSW
- Full time ongoing role in Wollongong
- Attractive salary ranges from $106,025.00 up to $117,363.00

**About the opportunity**

The Safety Advisor is a pivotal role in ensuring the NSW SES maintains and continually improves its safety culture. This role will prepare and communicate safety messaging, partake in safety solutions across all the emergency service activities our members participate in, and will play a key role in implementing safety strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and codes of practice.

Working closely with leaders and volunteers, the Safety Advisor will also be responsible for assisting with identifying and mitigating safety risks and hazards, including analysing and reporting on safety data to support a safe environment for members of the NSW SES.

During operational activity, this role will also play a significant role in being a key stakeholder in the safety of our volunteers when they are responding to emergencies - this can include weekend and after hours work during heightened operational activity.

This role is flexible with hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days at the HQs office in Wollongong.

**About the NSW SES**

Our Mission: NSW SES saving lives and creating safer communities.
Our Vision: A trusted volunteer-based emergency service, working together to deliver excellence in community preparedness and emergency response.

The NSW SES serves the community as the lead agency for Floods, Storms, and Tsunamis. We are recognised as the most versatile and widely used emergency service organisation in NSW. Our volunteers are highly skilled, experienced, and well
- trained in the wide variety of roles they perform.

With over 10,000 volunteers we are committed to protecting and supporting the diverse communities of NSW. Learn more here

**About you**

To be successful in this role you will have the following:

- Diploma of Work Health and Safety (or equivalent).
- Minimum 5 years’ experience in work health and safety including reviewing and analysing safety management system data, supporting reporting systems, advising leadership in safety across of several forums with leaders and workers, understanding and interpreting legislative requirements and embedding policies and procedures regarding work health and safety.
- Thorough knowledge and understanding of work health and safety legislation.
- Thorough knowledge of AIIMS principles and processes, and/or willingness to obtain competence within 12 months.
- Excellent communication skills and proficiency in building and maintaining relationships with stakeholder, internal and external.
- Valid Driver’s License’s and/or the ability to travel to SES unit locations.

**What we can offer you**
- Attractive leave entitlements: parental, recreation and flex leave and other leave.
- Competitive salary package of up to $131,845 (salary + leave loading + super).
- Flexible work options can be discussed within operational requirements.
- Mental Health & Wellbeing programs.
- Access to our Corporate Partner Fitness Passport for a reduced rate when joining a participating gym.
- Operational and leadership training via LinkedIn Learning and other resources.
- Comprehensive immunisation programs including the flu vaccine.
- Opportunities to build relationships across emergency service agencies, committees and other Government and community organisations.

**How to apply**
- A cover letter (maximum of one page) briefly responding to the essential requirements and your interest in the role.
- Responses to each of the targeted questions (maximum of one page per answer).
- An up-to-date resume of no more than four pages detailing your skills and experience relevant to the role.

**Targeted Questions**
- You need to develop an agency Work Health and Safety (WHS) risk register that includes psychosocial risks. Please describe the steps you would take to identify, assess, and document these risks across the agency. Provide a detailed example of a specific psychosocial risk you might include in the risk register and explain how you would ensure it is managed effectively within the agency.
- In this role, you will need to work with a variety of stakeholders across the agency, some of whom may have differing, or challenging perspectives on WHS initiatives. Describe how you would engage these stakeholders and build relationships to gain support for a key WHS project. Please provide an example of a WHS initiative you implemented that required consulting with and addressing concerns from diverse stakeholders.

**Want to know more?**

The role description is available here

**Talent Pool**

A recruitment pool may be created for ongoing and temporary roles of the same role or role type that may become available for filling over the nex