Health & Safety Business Partner

**Job Number**:
498671

**Division**:
Finance & Corp Services

**Employment Status**:
Full time, Permanent

**Categories**:
People, Culture and Safety

**The details**:

- Permanent Full Time
- $94,194 pa + super (up to 12%) + leave loading
Qld Local Government Industry Award (Stream A) - Level 6 of the MBRC EBA4 Certified Agreement
- 9 day fortnight
- 72.5 hour fortnight
- Hybrid, flexible working environment, including some work from home days.
- Location: Our Health & Safety Business Partners work across all Council facilities and locations. This role is based out of Strathpine and will be expected to travel throughout the region.

**About our opportunity**

We're looking for two Health and Safety Business Partners to join our team and contribute to the development and continuous improvement of a proactive safety culture across Council. You will champion all things safety and wellbeing for all team members and coach, support and develop leaders and team members to ensure we continue to improve culture that will make a difference to how work is done.

As a Health and Safety Business Partner and member of the Wellbeing and Safety team you will:

- Identify, develop, and facilitate the implementation of health and safety improvement strategies that support the operationalisation of the corporate H&S Strategy and best practice H&S.
- With a customer focused mindset - build, maintain and continually strengthen relationships with business leaders and front-line employees.
- Partner with business leaders to proactively identify areas of risk and provide regular insights to all levels of the business. This may include trend analysis, interactions, observations, audits and inspections; and identify and recommend systemic improvements arising from the insights.
- Partner with leaders and employees to evaluate the effectiveness of current risk control measures and future risk control measures.
- Facilitate, champion and continually refine the learning processes (i.e. incident learning work insights) that seek to narrow the gap between ‘work as imagined’ and ‘the work as done’.
- Support the local safety practices of front-line teams and participate in risk assessment or hazard identification workshops as required.

**About you**

You'll be curious and passionate about all things safety, getting out and about to meet people and learn first-hand what the operational risks and challenges are in their job. You'll have experience in health and safety partnering, providing support and advice to internal clients and senior leaders to foster a culture of psychological safety, trust, open communication and learning that drives a constructive culture.

In addition you will have:

- Exposure to and experience with...
- WHS Management Systems and process
- H&S risk management practice and incident investigation methodology
- Experience in...
- Developing strong, productive partnerships and engage key stakeholders
- Developing and delivering coaching activities to improve culture and behaviour change
- Supporting strategy and business direction
- Working effectively in teams and efficiently to meet deadlines and KPIs

**Position Description**

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**Why join the MBRC Team?**

As the third largest local government area in Australia and the fifth fastest growing region, the Moreton Bay Region boasts beautiful beaches and waterways, amazing manufacturing hubs and picturesque hinterland hamlets. Moreton Bay has a strong and connected community that enjoys all the traditional Jinibara, Kabi Kabi and Turrbal country has to offer within our region.

With a diverse workforce of more than 2000 team members dedicated to servicing the needs and enhancing the lifestyle of more than 479,000 residents, each team member has an intrinsic ability to impact our community. Whether you’re a manager or working on the frontline, your role will make a difference - bring your expertise and join our driven team today.

Aside from an opportunity to build a rewarding career within a diverse and growing organisation, we offer a range of team member benefits including:

- Discounted Health Insurance.
- Free flu vaccinations every year.
- Fitness Passport program offering discounted membership for you and your family to selected facilities.
- We are proud to offer opportunities to develop your career within a local government organisation and our team members are encouraged to undertake study for career development in their area of employment under our Study, Training And Research Scheme (STARS).
- Generous employer and employee super contribution scheme.
- Salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation payments, smartphones and devices.
- We want you and your family to feel well supported when you need it most - as a team member you will have access our 24/7 confidential counselling service, leader support hotline, chaplaincy program and our Mates in Construction program.
- Our Strathpine office has lo