Health and Safety Team Manager

Location: Melbourne | Eastern Metropolitan

Job type: Full time

Organisation: Monash Health

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- Play an key role in building a strong safety culture and creating an excellent place to work
- Build and lead a high performing team to deliver strong safety performance
- Work with the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team and leaders across the organisation.

Monash Health is excited to announce the role of Health and Safety Manager, a senior safety leader, reporting to the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Director, who will lead the Health and Safety Advisory Team to partnering with business leaders to build a strong safety culture through health and safety leadership capability, implementation of the Health and Safety strategy, robust risk management, incident investigation, organisation wide training and organisational safety improvements.

**About Us**

Monash Health is Victoria’s largest public health service. We provide safe, high-quality care to one-quarter of Melbourne’s population, across the entire lifespan, from pre-birth to end-of-life.

More than 18,000 of us work at over 40 care locations across south-east Melbourne, including seven hospitals and an extensive network of rehabilitation, aged care, community health and mental health facilities.

About The Role

At Monash Health we provide experiences that exceed expectations and our Safety Team is committed to driving health safety and wellbeing improvements and to empowering our leaders to lead a strong safety culture, and this role is vital in influencing our success. This is a full time permanent role.

**About You**

You are an experienced safety leader with a track record of delivering on measurable improvements and building high performing teams. You lead by example, thrive working in a dynamic, fast paced environment and are truly passionate about delivering a high standard of safety. You are an advocate of Monash Health’s Strategic Guiding Principles

**You Are Also**:

- A great communicator with an ability to build effective working relationships
- committed to a leadership & mentoring role
- dedicated to best practice risk management and safety improvement initiatives
- committed to partnering with stakeholders to help build capability and safety leadership
- enthusiastic, compassionate & able to work collaboratively
- excited to be accountable for delivering safety improvements in our relentless pursuit of excellence

**What You Need**:

- Tertiary qualifications in Workplace Health Safety / Risk Management in addition to several years of experience in a senior safety management role
- The ability to integrate the safety agenda into the broader organisation objectives in a fast paced environment
- Current driver’s license
- Demonstrated improvements in safety performance and building high performing teams

**What We Offer**:

- access to Monash Health in-house learning portals to further expand your acute clinical skills & knowledge base
- avenues to further develop your leadership & project management skills
- mentorship & career guidance
- support to attend relevant forums & conferences
- a supportive learning environment, should you wish to undertake postgraduate studies

In addition, you will have access to benefits including salary packaging to increase your take-home pay, access to onsite subsidised staff car parking and gym, uniform and the Employee Assistance Program (EAP).

**How to Apply**

Monash Health recognises the value of equal employment opportunity and is committed to patient safety and promoting fairness, equity and diversity in the workplace. At Monash Health we are relentless in our pursuit of excellence and work to our six guiding principles.

Offers of employment can only be made once all required probity checks have been completed. These include:

- reference checks;
- a clear Police Check conducted within the last three months;
- a current Victorian Employee Working with Children’s Check (or proof of payment for same);and
- proof of immunisation.