Health and Safety Adviser

1 week ago

Brisbane, Australia Queensland Health Full time

The role
Reporting to the Principal Health and Safety Adviser (Fatigue), Health and Safety Unit, your role will support collaborations with key stakeholders across Queensland Health to assist the development, and coordination implementation of strategic health and safety management systems, programs and initiatives with a focus on fatigue, psychosocial risk or other similar wellbeing areas.
The role contributes to proactively monitoring organisational health and safety performance, current research, emerging issues and industry trends to assist in the identification and development of innovative best practice initiatives and support legislative and policy compliance to address key WHS and wellbeing risks across the health system.
The successful person
**You will have demonstrated**:

- A record of achievement in contributing to the development, implementation, evaluation and continually improving strategic organisation-wide psychosocial hazards and fatigue, or similar wellbeing strategies within complex environments.
- Analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to assist the analysis of performance data and writing of reports to drive systems improvement.
- Demonstrated communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to assist establishing and maintaining productive working relationships and assist liaising and collaborating with a range of internal and external stakeholders to facilitate their cooperation and support to achieve desired outcomes.

About us
The Department of Health is responsible for the overall management of the public health system in Queensland. We are an organisation that strongly believes in the need to work with people who value the goals of our organisation and who will thrive in our workplace. Working at the Department of Health is about making a difference.
About Human Resources Branch
Human Resources Branch partners with stakeholders across Queensland Health to provide human resource strategies and support to realise the potential of our people in the delivery of quality healthcare to Queenslanders. The branch delivers a range of human resource services to attract and retain staff, build workforce culture and capability, develop and maintain employment arrangements, monitor and manage workforce performance, support safe and healthy work and provide assurance that the department's statutory obligations are met.

**Benefits**:

- A fast-paced, challenging and supportive environment
- Competitive salary + generous superannuation and leave loading
- Flexible working arrangements
- Diverse work culture
- Career training and development

How to apply
- A short-written response (maximum 2 pages, dot points acceptable) on how your experience, abilities, knowledge and personal qualities would enable you to achieve the key responsibilities and meet the skill requirements of the role.
- Your current CV or resume, including two referees who have a thorough knowledge of your capabilities, work performance and conduct within the previous two years. It is preferable to include your current, immediate or past supervisor.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.

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