Senior Health and Safety Specialist Advisor

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to work on priority projects and provide specialist health and safety advice? Would you enjoy working with a dynamic project team to revise and simplify the department's Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) Management System, making it easier for workplace managers and other stakeholders to understand, implement and manage safety in schools and corporate workplaces?

The Employee Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion Division is seeking a qualified OHS specialist with strong policy and systems thinking skills to join the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Capability Team.

Reporting to the Manager, Health, Safety and Wellbeing Capability Team, the Senior Health and Safety Specialist Advisor is responsible for actively contributing to the review of the OHS Management System for schools- an exciting project to align policy with smarter systems, simplify processes and reduce administrative burden.

In this role, you will have the unique opportunity to:

• contribute to current department and division priorities (that may evolve over time), including review of the OHS management system, and delivery of the Safe and Well in Education Strategy (the Strategy) and the Safe and Well in Education Framework(the Framework)
• develop prevention and capability policy and programs to improve the OHS and wellbeing of employees, influencing program design and implementation and informing decision making
• use your policy and systems thinking skills to work effectively with other sections of a large and complex organisation to improve employee safety and wellbeing culture
• develop written communications including detailed briefs, policy proposals, correspondence and other written communications as required
• demonstrate strong expertise in OHS management systems, programs and project management approaches and disciplines
• develop conceptual and analytical skills with the ability to think innovatively to inform future direction
• work with key internal and external stakeholders.

The successful candidate will have health and safety qualifications, knowledge and skills as well as strong relationship building and written skills and the ability to understand an employee or school's underlying needs and context. The successful candidate will also build trust through consistent actions and appropriate communication, supporting stakeholders to better understand their role in health, safety and wellbeing, creating a strong safety culture across department workplaces.

For more details regarding this position please see attached position descriptions.

The Department values diversity and inclusion in all forms - gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQ+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply. For more information about our work, working for the Department, diversity and inclusion, and our employment conditions visit the Department website , HRWeb and our Diversity and Inclusion page

Applicants requiring adjustments can contact the nominated contact person

Information about the Department of Education and Training's operations and employment conditions can be obtained from the following websites: www.education.vic.gov.au and http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Pages/default.aspx.

Applications close Wednesday 04 October, 2023