Safety & Wellbeing Officer

**Employment Status**: Permanent, full time
**Days & Hours of Work**:Monday to Friday, totalling**38 hours per week
**Competitive Salary**:Band 7 -**$111,166 - $124,534 p.a depending on experience + 11.5% superannuation.
**Location**:Corporate Centre in Sandringham, with the flexibility to work from home

**About Us**:
We are a passionate organisation, connected in our shared goal to be ‘sector leading’ in all that we do for the community and each other. Home to over 100,000 residents, Bayside City Council's enduring purpose is building extraordinary places, thriving communities, and better futures.

Bayside Council is an equal-opportunity employer committed to providing an accessible and safe working environment that embraces and values child safety, diversity, and inclusion. Our organisational strategy is made up of three priorities and we consider these in everything we do**:Diversity, Equity & Inclusion**, **Customer Experience** and **Results Matter**.

We want everyone to be as proud of what we are achieving - and excited about our future - as we are, and we are committed to working together to achieve this.

**About the Role**:
Bayside City Council is on an exciting journey to mature all aspects of occupational health, safety and wellbeing across our organisation. To support this journey, we are looking for a contemporary safety professional to ensure the continuity of our ‘business as usual’ safety activities, in addition to supporting the Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing Lead execute our progressive safety and wellbeing strategy. This will require utilisation of your existing skills across health, safety and wellbeing whilst assisting with the coordination and implementation of a myriad of new and exciting safety and risk reduction initiatives.

Working in a small but dedicated safety team, this role requires a strong focus on collaboration with key stakeholders across all Council divisions - promoting a culture of safety that supports and enables our people leaders to identify and mitigate hazards and ensure continuous safety improvement. With a hands-on focus and a ‘can do’ attitude, you’ll be provided with plentiful opportunities to demonstrate your existing expertise and be empowered to further develop areas of interest and proficiency that jointly benefits the organisations safety management system and dynamic risk profile.

Based out of the Council's Corporate Centre in Sandringham, the position extends to other staffed sites across the beautiful Bayside Municipality, including our Libraries.

**You will be responsible for**:

- Supporting the delivery of Council's Safety and Wellbeing strategy.
- Being a ‘point of contact’ that provides education, guidance, assistance, training and support to our staff and stakeholders relating to health, safety and wellbeing.
- Assisting leaders and staff respond and manage workplace hazards, risks, incidents and investigations.
- OHS reporting, systems monitoring, staff engagement, the execution of safety projects and OHS committee/consultation arrangements.
- Participate in the development and coordination of health and wellbeing activities, programs and initiatives.

**Key Selection Criteria**:
To be successful in this role, you will bring the following skills and competencies:

- Proven ability to provide sound advice that meets legislation and operational needs across all areas of health, safety and wellbeing.
- Able to communicate and collaborate with all levels of staff to convey information clearly.
- A creative, flexible and improvement driven mindset.
- You are a self-starter and are passionate about making a meaningful difference in the lives of all those who work or volunteer for Council.
- You have a good working knowledge of IT and software packages, including Excel, Word, Power Point.

**The following qualifications and experience are required for the position**:

- An appropriate tertiary qualification in Health and Safety or related discipline (mandatory).
- Minimum 2 years of experience in a health and safety role (mandatory).
- Training or qualification in incident investigation (iCAM, etc.) and risk assessments (Desirable).
- RTW Coordinator certification (Desirable).
- First Aid certification and other relevant safety competencies (Desirable).

**Mandatory pre-employment requirements**:

- Be willing to undergo and complete a satisfactory criminal history check.
- Provide or obtain an employment-based Working with Children check.

**What we can offer you in return**:

- A work life/balance through flexible and hybrid working arrangements.
- Generous leave provisions, including accrued time off, parental leave, three days of wellbeing leave per year, cultural and ceremonial leave, gender affirmation leave, plus the ability to purchase up to four weeks additional leave per year.
- Dedicated Staff Wellbeing programs, events and gym membership discounts.
- Learning and development opportunities so our people can grow and thrive.
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