Safety Manager

Utilise your management expertise to provide support and advice to the People Safety Culture and Communications branch
- Ongoing, Full-Time opportunity to work in Cherry Creek with a high-performing and passionate team in the Victorian Public Service
- VPS Grade 6: $134,593 - $180,115 plus superannuation.

**About Us**:
People, Safety, Culture and Communications' (PSCCs) 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.
The Safety Manager sits within Safety, Wellbeing and Compliance (SWC), a branch of the PSCC in the Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department). The SWC branch provides process, systems, and services to support 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).
**About the Role**:
The Safety Manager sits within Safety, Wellbeing and Compliance (SWC), a branch of the PSCC in the Department of Justice and Community Safety (the department). The SWC branch provides process, systems, and services to support the department to meet its responsibilities under health and safe laws.
As the Safety Manager you will provide a high level of advice and support to executive and senior leaders to drive cultural change and improve safety performance outcomes while delivering against strategic and operational objectives of the department to meet its responsibilities under the Health Safety and Wellbeing Strategy 2021 - 2025 for the department together with health and safety laws (Occupational Health and Safety Act 2004, Occupational Health and Safety Regulations 2017, Dangerous Goods Act 1985 and Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2014).
**The role of the Safety Manager is to**:

- provide high level safety advice and support to executives and senior leaders in Youth Justice.
- influence strategy development and championing the health and safety agenda to manage safety risks in a complex environment.
- mentor, develop and build upon staff safety capabilities and competencies.
- Supervise and guide the day-to-day activities of the safety coordinator on site to ensure quality deliverables are being met.

To learn more about this role before applying, please read the attached position description.
- Relevant significant industry experience in occupational health and safety management systems
- Demonstrated experience in the identification of OHS risks and developing, implementing and evaluating preventative strategies.
- Demonstrated expertise in consulting with senior leaders and managers in the delivery of key outcomes in health and safety, change management and related workplace improvement initiatives.
- Demonstrated experience in delivering cultural change in health, safety and wellbeing.

**Qualifications**:

- Suitably qualified person with a minimum of diploma in occupational/workplace health and safety.
- Demonstrated extensive experience is desirable.
- A full and current driver's license is required due to the need to work across different locations.

**How to Apply**:
**FOR INTERNAL VPS EMPLOYEES**:
**IMPORTANT INFORMATION**:CHILD SAFE STATEMENT OF COMMITMENT**:
The Department of Justice and Community Safety is committed to the safety and wellbeing of children and young people. We seek to prevent harm of any kind impacting children and young people and have zero tolerance for racism, child abuse and inequality. Children and young people's rights, relationships, identity, and culture must be recognised and respected, their voices heard, and their concerns acted upon. We aim to foster a culturally safe, child safe and child friendly environment for all children and young people we have contact with, deliver services to, or are impacted by our work.