Aps5 - Work Health and Safety Advisor, People Branch

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**Title**:
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**Classification(s)**:
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**Employment Type**:
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**Salary**:
$83,132 - $88,147 per annum plus 15.4% superannuation

From 13 March 2025 salary $86,291 - $91,809

**Business Division**:
People, Culture and Change

**Branch / Section**:
People, Safety Wellbeing & Performance

**Location**:
mfield2

Some roles may require some in-office attendance due to operational needs or the inherent requirements of the role. Please reach out to the contact person for the job advertisement to discuss if alternate locations to the one specified in the advertisement are available for this opportunity.

**Security Clearance**:
Baseline Vetting

**Job Reference No**:
46413

**Contact Officer**:
**Closing Date**:
**11.59pm AEDT,**Sunday 16 March 2025**

**The opportunity we have available**

The Work Health and Safety (WHS) Advisor role is a position within the department’s WHS team that consults and works closely with stakeholders across the department. The WHS team is part of the Safety, Wellbeing and Performance Section that is responsible the delivery of a broad range of innovative human resource services and practices. We aim to successfully equip staff and managers to meet immediate and emerging WHS challenges, and work collaboratively with the branches to coordinate and deliver professional centralised services to the department.

**What will you do?**

We are looking for an APS 5 WHS Adviser to join our team and develop their knowledge and skills as work health and safety professional. The WHS team is responsible for implementing the department’s Work Health and Safety Management System, the provision of WHS advice and the promotion of health and wellbeing initiatives across the department. The WHS Advisor plays a key role in delivering the business as usual activities of the team and organising the department’s Healthy Living Month and Safe Work Month initiatives. The APS 5 will review policies and procedures and contribute to the broader work of the section.

This role includes:

- Providing advice and recommendations to the department in line with the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, Regulations, and Codes of Practice, including responding to inquiries in the WHS Inbox.
- Undertaking secretariat activities for the HSR Network Meeting and support preparation for the department’s WHS Committee.
- Managing the Health and Safety Representatives program including coordinating filling of vacant positions and training.
- Reviewing Home Based Work Applications and coordinating comprehensive workstation assessments with staff and providers.
- Incident and hazard report management.
- Coordinating the workplace hazard inspections program
- Leading the development and scheduling of initiatives and activities that promote and encourage safety and wellbeing in the workplace.
- Contributing to the identification and implementation of system and process improvement initiatives.
- Undertaking reviews of WHS policies, guidelines and procedures.
- Managing the departments first aid program

**Who are we looking for?**

To be successful in this role, you will need to demonstrate your ability to:

- communicate effectively with a client service focus, good judgement, negotiation and stakeholder engagement skills.
- contribute with a growth mindset including a willingness to continue to learn, develop, and foster an environment for team members to do the same.
- achieve results and quality outcomes by showing initiative and working as part of a small team delivering multiple activities at any given time, often within tight timeframes.
- collaborate across diverse teams, using your exceptional interpersonal and engagement skills to engage with a wide variety of stakeholders, valuing different perspectives, contributions and backgrounds.
- coordinate projects and wellbeing initiatives for consideration for roll out to the department.
- manage sensitive personal information in accordance with legislated privacy requirements.
- undertake research and analysis when developing WHS related policies, procedures and guidelines.
- provide secretariat for meetings including coordinating meetings and writing minutes.

**RecruitAbility minimum requirements**

Minimum requirements for this role include:

- A certificate IV (or higher) in Work Health and Safety is mandatory.
- Ability to communicate effectively with a client service focus with a wide variety of stakeholders, valuing different perspectives, contributions and backgrounds.
- Ability to coordinate projects and programs.

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Job applicants with disability who met the requirements are advanced to the next stage of the selection process:

- Opt into the scheme
- Declare they have a disability, and
- Meet the minimum requirements of a vacancy advertised in the scheme

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