P00000461 Workplace Health and Safety Advisor

Work with talented people who are humble, human, and dedicated to helping others.
- Our people ARE our impact. Whatever your role here, your efforts really matter.
- Benefits to support you, such as salary packaging and five weeks annual leave.

Build your career at Lives Lived Well, where our people, our approach and our growth bring you opportunity to go further.

At Lives Lived Well (LLW), we’ve been treating and supporting people whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drugs for over 50 years. We also support people with mental health and gambling concerns and those transitioning from correctional centres. We’re growing fast and building a reputation as a trusted, innovative provider, focused on clinical excellenceand we’d love you to be part of it.

Are you ready to join us and help make a difference where it matters most?

**Your opportunity**

As a WHS Advisor, you’ll play a lead role in providing advice and support in Work Health and Safety matters to leaders, staff, and services across the organisation.

You will develop, co-ordinate and monitor safe systems of work in line with WHS legislation and Lives Lived Well (LLW) WHS Management Systems and processes.

You will join a small but impactful Risk and Safety team that is well established and recognised by our internal stakeholders, and which is deeply committed to supporting our people.

**In this role you will**:

- Provide WHS advice across LLW services including supporting risk owners to assist them to define and manage their risks.
- Conduct and monitor workplace inspections, risk assessments, audits, investigations etc.
- Implement and monitor safe systems of work to support organisational WHS compliance with legislation, organisational processes, Australian standards, accreditation requirements etc
- Provide incident and injury management, and workplace support to staff and leaders (including Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordination and WorkCover liaison).
- Advise in Fire Emergency Response, and evacuation planning.
- Provide safety in design advice and WHS consultation for new service set up and projects.

This is a full-time, maximum term contract for 12 months, with the possibility to become a permanent position.

We are flexible with the work location of this role; it could be based in Rockhampton or South-East Queensland.

Intra-state and inter-state travel may be required occasionally.

The total salary package for this role is approximately $112K including base salary, salary packaging, Superannuation, leave loading (17.5%), 5 additional days of paid Wellbeing Leave, and Fitness Passport membership access.

**What you’ll bring**

**To succeed in this role, there are some essentials you’ll need**:

- 5+ years’ experience in the conduct of WHS activities such as inspections, audits, hazard identification, risk assessment and control, and incident investigation, ideally within a clinical/community service setting.
- You have a hands-on approach to developing and implementing practical solutions that support safety and well-being outcomes.
- Injury management, workplace rehabilitation and return to work experience. Return to work Coordinator (or similar) qualfications.
- A demonstrated ability to achieve outcomes under limited supervision.
- You‘ll be passionate and energetic about Work Heath and Safety practices.
- You’ll be able to work both autonomously and collaboratively within a team and are resourceful to find ways to get the job done.
- You’ll have the ability to meet deadlines and prioritise effectively.

**We’d also love you to have**:

- Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills especially assertiveness building relationships and guaranteeing WHS compliance within teams.
- Flexibility to adapt to changing business.
- You are resourceful and able to communicate effectively within a geographically dispersed organisation (more than 50 locations).
- Fire Safety Advisor or similar qualifications

**What matters most is that you’ll live and breathe our values, which means:
- You are humble, human, and full of hope.
- You show up and share.
- You ask: Why not? And what’s next?
- You leave a positive wake.

Why? We believe that through these values, we do our best work - for each other, for clients, and for the communities we work in. And it’s a promise we make to you about the kind of experience you will have working for us.

**Why work for Lives Lived Well?**

Well, it’s about people, purpose, impact, and growth.

We think you’ll love working with our talented people across services that are as diverse as the communities we work in. We’ve grown significantly, with no plans of slowing down.giving you a real opportunity to go further

**So, what does that mean for you?**
- You’ll grow as a person and as a professional, extending your knowledge and skills beyond the norm and be exposed to the latest practice in this field.
- You’ll be trusted with autonomy in a supportive, re