Whs Administrative Support Officer

**Job no**: 877483
**Work type**: Full time
**Location**: Adelaide Metro Eastern
**Categories**: Administration and Clerical
- **Salary: ASO3 / $67,589.00- $72,033.00**:

- **Full Time / Term Contract (Up until 31 August 2025)**:

- **EASTWOOD / 5063**

**About Us**:
SA Ambulance Service (SAAS) is South Australia’s provider of emergency ambulance transport, clinical care, and patient transport services.

We are committed to ensuring South Australia has access to the best possible emergency medical care, non-emergency transport, and rescue and retrieval services.
- Our Vision_: An innovative, patient focused, technology enabled, evidence driven, emergency response and health care ambulance service; achieved by exceptional people.
- Our Mission_: Providing emergency response and health care ambulance services within South Australia, designed and development around patient and community needs, enabling timely and equitable access for our patients to the most appropriate point of care.
- Our Purpose_: To ensure South Australia thrives by enabling access to emergency and non-emergency ambulance health care and alternative patient pathways while contributing to our state’s emergency preparedness and health response capability.

**Our Values**

**_PATIENT FOCUSED_**: We will put our patients and the safe and quality care we provide them first; in everything we do.

**_TEAMWORK_**_:_ We will work across SAAS, our health system, our partners, stakeholders and the community to achieve our goals.

**_ INTEGRITY AND HONESTY_**_:_ We accept and uphold the standards and expectations of our organisation and communities.

**_RESPECT AND COURTESY:_** We will always be respectful and courteous toward our patients, each other, and all those we work with.

**_COMMUNITY COLLABORATION_**: We value our role in the community, and we value the communities we serve.

**_CHANGE READY_**: We know our communities’ needs will evolve and we must adapt to meet them.

**_AUTHENTIC LEADERSHIP:_** We will support leadership development for our people at every level.

The Work, Health and Safety (WHS) Administrative Support Officer is responsible to the Work Health and Safety (WHS) Manager through the Senior WHS Consultant for the provision and delivery of an WHS services within the service / network. The role will involve maintaining various WHS databases and providing administrative support to the Work Health Safety and Injury Management (WHSIM) Department.

**What We Offer**:

- Work in a collaborative, forward-thinking environment with a culture of inclusion and diversity.
- Giving back to the people of South Australia Play a vital role in enhancing the well-being of our community.
- We take care of you Access to a range of staff and wellness support programs

**Salary Packaging with SMART**

As an employee of SA Ambulance Service, you may be eligible to salary package a range of living expenses through Smart.

**Key Responsibilities**:
Support the implementation of the WHS system, processes, policies, and procedures, including monitoring reports, identifying opportunities for improvement, and contributing to the development of best practices.

Provide prompt and effective WHS administrative support services across the service/network, such as coordinating compliance with safety inspection programs, maintaining registers, supporting WHS committees and meetings, and assisting managers and health and safety representatives.

Build and maintain strong collaborative relationships with various stakeholders, including workforce health teams, human resources, managers, employees, and representatives, to ensure service needs are met, encourage active participation, and resolve WHS-related issues.

Participate in professional development training to maintain and develop skills, knowledge, and expertise under the guidance of senior WHS staff, and assist in monitoring, reviewing, reporting, and implementing continuous improvement initiatives.

**Application Information**:

- The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
- SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.

**Job ref: 877483**

**Enquiries to: Victoria Palmer, Senior Work Health and Safety Consultant**

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**Advertised**: 25 Sep 2024 Cen. Australia Standard Time
**Applications close**: 09 Oct 2024 Cen. Australia Daylight Time