People Health

The** People Health & Safety Partner **role is responsible for elevating and maintaining our WHS standards through consultation, guidance and strong process management. This is a **permanent, part-time** opportunity working **4 days per week** and the role requires the ability to lead and influence through strategic guidance, combined with a hands-on approach to deliver practical, real-time solutions for effective WHS management across WPP.

**As a People Health & Safety Partner, you will**:

- Promote and provide leadership to ensure a physically and psychologically safe working environment at WPP
- Develop and ensure the ongoing review of safety policies, procedures, systems and processes for effective and consistent implementation across the organisation
- Develop effective processes for regular monitoring and review in respect of safety and wellbeing
- Establish structured safety and wellbeing consultative mechanisms across the organisation and ensure compliance
- Review incidents and oversee investigations; identify learnings and opportunities for improvement
- Develop and implement training programs in conjunction with the People team and key stakeholders to build safety capability
- Lead COVID-19 changes in reference to public health orders or other Government mandates across AUNZ and communicate with the relevant stakeholders and impacted staff
- Manage the WHS management system for identifying and controlling safety risks and hazards
- Complete audits of our campuses and ensure controls are in place
- Maintain the registers for first aiders, fire wardens and mental health champions and ensure currency
- Provide operational guidance and technical expertise and support, including updates on trends and issues impacting health and safety in the workplace
- Manage workers compensation claims and return to work for all employees
- Report on people health and safety as part of due diligence and to meet any business compliance requirements
- Provide consultation to all WPP OpCos, working with HR Community

We support flexibility through our hybrid working model which offers the benefits of being together in the office and working from home. We encourage our people to work in ways that meet their needs and enable them to deliver great work.

**About You**:

- Relevant qualification in Work Health & Safety or Human Resources or related
- Minimum 6 years' experience as a Safety Advisor, Consultant or Manager
- Experience interpreting WHS legislation across NSW, VIC, SA, WA and QLD; experience with NZ is preferred but not essential
- Prior experience auditing safety management systems and recommending and implementing changes
- Experience writing policies and procedures
- Experience completing safety audits
- Experience managing workers compensation claims and facilitating return to work
- Return to work coordinator accredited would be highly regarded
- Mental Health First Aid accredited would be highly regarded

**About WPP**:
We are the creative transformation company. We use the power of creativity to build better futures for our people, planet, clients, and communities.

At WPP we're reinventing creativity on an ever-broader canvas, bringing together unrivalled talent, resources, and skills to provide an integrated offer of communications, experience, commerce, and technology for clients.

It's our people who make the company, and what we do, extraordinary. We champion an open and optimistic workplace, where everyone has the chance to thrive and shine. We foster and celebrate an inclusive culture of belonging, one that embraces diverse thought and individual expression.

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