Work Health Safety and Quality Manager

Job Description

Agency Department of Health Work unit National Critical Care and Trauma Response

Centre

Job title Work Health Safety and Quality Manager Designation Senior Professional Officer 1

Job type Full time Duration Fixed to 30/06/2027

Salary $128,551 - $143,611 Location Darwin

Position number 48250 RTF Closing 22/10/2025

Contact officer Stephanie Schreiner on

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APPLICATIONS MUST INCLUDE A ONE-PAGE SUMMARY ABOUT YOU, A DETAILED RESUME AND COPIES OF YOUR TERTIARY

QUALIFICATIONS.

Information for applicants – inclusion and diversity and Special Measures recruitment plans

The NTPS values diversity. The NTPS encourages people from all diversity groups to apply for vacancies and accommodates people with

disability by making reasonable workplace adjustments. If you require an adjustment for the recruitment process or job, please discuss

this with the contact officer. For more information about applying for this position and the merit process, go to the OCPE website.

Aboriginal applicants will be granted priority consideration for this vacancy. For more information on Special Measures plans, go to the

OCPE website.

Primary objective

Responsible for auditing, legislative compliance, hazard management, risk assessment, incident investigation and reporting, and Work Health

Safety management system alignment with Work Health Safety requirements for the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre and

their facilities.

Key duties and responsibilities

1. Audit the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre Headquarters and Bees Creek Training Facilities for legislative compliance,

security, hazard, and risk assessment, and manage audit outcomes.

2. Establish systems and processes to ensure ongoing Work Health Safety legislative compliance and best practice.

3. Coordinate the development and monitoring of key performance indicators in accordance with legislation and organisational objectives;

identify trends; and make recommendations to senior management to improve safety performance and reduce risk.

4. Collaborate, train and support key staff to implement ongoing Work Health Safety systems and processes.

5. Provide verbal and written reports to executive staff on audits, processes, and outcomes.

6. Strategically manage the monitoring, analysis, and reporting of Work Health Safety Quality performance outcomes; identify trends; advise and

make recommendations to executive and management to improve quality safety performance and reduce risk.

7. Lead accreditation by the Australian Council on Healthcare Standards Evaluation and Quality Improvement Program (EQuIP6) across the

National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre to ensure ongoing success and continuous risk management of quality improvement.

8. Provide strategic leadership to the Work Health Safety Quality team, ensuring duties and activities are conducted in accordance with legislative

requirements, policy, safety principles and key objectives.

9. Provide supervision, mentorship and education to National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre staff regarding safety, quality,

innovation, change management and risk assessment.

10. Maintain continuous professional development using research and evidence-based practice.

11. Follow defined service quality standards, work health and safety policies and procedures relating to the work being undertaken in order to

ensure high quality, safe services and workplaces.

12. Foster a positive workplace culture through exemplary leadership practices and role modelling behaviour.

Selection criteria

Essential

1. Relevant tertiary qualification in a health-related field.

2. Advanced knowledge and understanding of relevant legislation, regulations, standards, codes of practices, policies, and procedures, as well as

experience in managing obligations and compliance.

3. Advanced knowledge and understanding of hazard and risk assessments and the associations between risk identification, control measures,

and compliance monitoring.

4. Advanced knowledge and understanding of conceptual, analytical, technical, and innovative problem-solving skills and experience in

developing high-level WHS and Wellbeing correspondence and reports.

5. High-level oral and written communication skills, including negotiation and consultation with senior managers, employees, committees, and

external stakeholders.

6. Proven ability to effectively manage multiple projects while maintaining required outcomes and deadlines and a commitment to confidentiality.

7. Demonstrated ability to manage a small team and lead in an information-sharing team environment.

Desirable

1. Knowledge of the National Critical Care and Trauma Response Centre programs.

Further information

Positions may be subject to pre-employment checks such as immunisation requirements, working with children clearance notice and criminal

history checks. A criminal history will not exclude an applicant from this position unless it is a relevant criminal history. For immunisation

requirements - Category A (direct contact with blood or body substances) or Category B (indirect contact with blood or body substances), check

with contact person for requirements.