Safework Nsw Team Coordinator

**SafeWork NSW Team Coordinator**
- ** Location**: Various - Metro and Regional NSW
- ** Grade**: Inspector, Team Coordinator
- ** Duration**: Ongoing, Full time, 38 hours
- ** Applications Close**: Monday 23 September 2024 (at 9.59am)

**About us**

Are you interested in contributing to meaningful work that ensures NSW workers come home safely every day?

SafeWork NSW is the state's workplace health and safety regulator. Our focus is to protect NSW workers by preventing and reducing work related fatalities, serious injuries, and illnesses by securing compliance with work health and safety and associated legislation. We do this by undertaking a mix of responsive and proactive programs of work focused on high risk harms across all industries, aligned to our strategic plan and regulatory priorities.

SafeWork NSW is undergoing an exciting and important period of transformation as we establish the organisation as a modern, strong and standalone Work Health and Safety Regulator.

We're looking for diverse and dynamic people to join us in making a real difference to the safety and health of workers in NSW.

As a Team Coordinator, you will work a 38-hour week and after hours shifts where required.

Additionally, you will receive an attractive salary package along with the necessary tools of the trade, including a vehicle and access to flexible working conditions within operational requirements.

**About the role**

Reporting through to a Manager, the new role of Team Coordinator will provide supervision, operational support and quality assurance, and will also conduct requests for service, incident investigations, prevention and response programs of work.

Role responsibilities include:

- Coordinate, supervise and support a team of professionals that may include Inspectors, specialists, project officers and support staff:

- Provide team supervision and operational support in the office and the field to ensure services and decisions align with our strategic plan, regulatory priorities, legislation, policies and procedures, and customer service standards, and are consistent, professional and responsive
- Offer advice regarding safe work practices and how to comply with relevant work health and safety laws
- Support the community and people of NSW by identifying emerging issues and industry trends and supporting implementation of prevention and response programs of work that address both physical and psychosocial harms and hazards
- Build and maintain effective and professional working relationships with customers and stakeholders to improve WHS outcomes
- Provide coaching and mentoring to team members, ensuring internal administrative and organisational requirements are completed
- Deliver presentations, workshops, advisory services and forums
- Contribute to a positive, supportive, and rewarding workplace

For more information on the role and its accountabilities, click here to view the role description.

**Key challenges**
- Working collaboratively and flexibly within other teams while meeting multiple deadlines and priorities.
- Provide leadership to an evolving team that will embrace continuous improvement and build a positive culture

**Essential requirements***
- Diploma in Government (Workplace Inspection), or equivalent, or willingness to complete in the first 12 months the New Inspector Training Program (NITP). This intensive program is delivered by our Registered Training Organisation and combines mandatory components of induction, class training, online learning, completion of set assessments and tasks, and extensive on-the-job field training with regular travel throughout NSW. For more information click here.
- Extensive demonstrated experience in WHS or Government Inspection, compliance or similar and holder of or eligible to be appointed as the holder of Inspector Authority
- Satisfactory criminal record check
- Satisfactory medical assessment capacity in regard to physical and psychological impacts of the inherent duties of the role
- Regular travel throughout NSW with the occasional Inter-state travel
- Hold a NSW 'C' class drivers' license with a satisfactory safe driving record and a requirement to maintain the safe driving record throughout employment

**How to apply**:

- You should also include an up-to-date resume (of no more than five pages)
- A copy of your current online driving record from Service NSW
- A copy of your current demerit points from Service NSW

Salary Grade Inspector, with the base salary for this role starting at $142267 base plus superannuation

**Closing Date: Monday 23rd September 2024 [at 9.59am]**

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