Safety Partner

Are you passionate about safety in the workplace and love building constructive and collaborative relationships to build safety focused cultures?

• You are passionate about safety and creating safe work environments in an organisation with a diverse range of operational functions
• You enjoy sharing your safety knowledge and expertise and learning from others
• You take ownership of your decisions and look to deliver results for your projects
• Work in a dynamic and customer focused team
• Vehicle Allowance available

About the role

As the Safety Partner you will partner with business units to support work health and safety projects and investigations. You will provide coaching and support to drive outcomes that result in not only a safe work environment but also build a safety first culture which, in turn, helps to improve our organisational performance.

You are able to build effective partnerships through strong customer engagement with both management and staff. You can be responsive to operational needs and can understand and apply legislation, regulations, codes of practice and policy.

This position is required to provide quality customer service and create value for the community.

To be successful in this role, you will have:

• tertiary qualifications in a related field or significant contemporary experience in a similar role
• NSW Construction Induction Card and a current Class C Drivers Licence
• significant experience in work health and safety management in a large diverse service industry organisation
• significant experience in the application of current work health and safety legislation, regulations and codes of practice
• demonstrated experience developing and implementing work health and safety management compliance frameworks including developing policies, system processes, auditing and monitoring of programs
• demonstrated experience in coaching, training and developing capability of staff and managers, particularly in the area of workplace safety and driving a safety culture, by fostering a performance based and customer focused work culture
• demonstrated experience in project management to implement work health and safety initiatives including planning and managing change to deliver improvement of performance outcomes
• demonstrated experience in the research, analysis and interpretation of complex and often sensitive information including the preparation of reports, with the ability to deal with challenges creatively to achieve solution based workplace safety outcomes
• demonstrated ability to build strong, credible relationships and influence, persuade and negotiate outcomes that add value to the organisation
• proven ability to assess and interpret information to formulate recommendations and provide specialist advice to enable the organisation achieve quality outcomes.

Our position description provides more information for you to learn more about this role.

Other important information

• The salary range for this position ranges between $86,843.40 to $103,015.61 (dependent on skills and experience), plus 11.5% superannuation, plus a motor vehicle allowance ($207.13 per week).
• We have 2 permanent full-time roles available.
• This role will be able to access a 9 day fortnight.
• We are able to offer hybrid and flexible working conditions for this role. 
• This role is located at the Wyong Administration Building and will travel across the local government area. 
• Successful candidates will be required to be vaccinated for tetanus.

Council may create an eligibility list from this recruitment process and may utilise this eligibility list to fill other permanent or temporary vacancies.

Extra benefits

At Central Coast Council we provide team members with a range of extras that help them balance their life when they need it. Fitness Passports give access to a range of gyms. Wellbeing leave can be accessed twice a year to tick off something that means something to you - volunteering, health check-ups. And an Employee Assistance Program that offers a range of wellbeing initiatives to help you and your immediate family.

Other extras include:

• Long service leave after 5 years of continuous service
• Free flu vaccination program
• Time provided for you to do annual skin cancer screening, Breast screen and blood donations
• Access to professional development with career development and learning programs through various platforms
• We reward and recognise our staff with our Cheers program
• Novated leasing partnerships. 

Central Coast Council is committed to the goals of equal opportunity employment. We aim to provide a work environment for our employees that fosters equity, diversity and respect.

Council is committed to providing safe environments that protect the physical, emotional, cultural and social wellbeing of children on the Central Coast.

What to know more?

The contact person for this role is Paul Mewing, Work Health Safety Lead Specialist. You can contact Paul on 02 4350 1668.

This position will close for applications at midnight on Sunday, 17 November 2024.

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Location

Central Coast Council is ideally located on the northern fringe of Sydney and just an hour's drive from Newcastle, the Central Coast offers one of the best places in Australia to live and work. The Central Coast is one of the fastest growing regions in NSW, the third largest Local Government Area (LGA) in NSW and the 6th Largest LGA in Australia. 

How to apply

We have put together some additional resources to help you apply for a role at Central Coast Council.

By completing and submitting this online application you confirm that any information that you provide in this application is true and correct and acknowledge that any offer of employment may be withdrawn should the information that you have provided in support of your application be shown to be false. 

You also consent to employment screening checks being conducted where appropriate.  This may include associated checks including reference checks, Working with Children Check, Entitlement to Work in Australia, employment history and an Australian Federal Police Check, as well as substantiation of educational qualifications, industry memberships, previous Central Coast Council employment history and association with professional bodies.

You also acknowledge that you will be required to provide proof of eligibility (including photo identification) to work in Australia if selected for an interview.

To lodge your application, please follow these steps:

1. Answer the on-line questions shown below.
2. Attach your resume 
3. Attach your qualifications and licences.

Once your application is successfully lodged you will receive an automated response sent to your e-mail address. If a response is not received this means that your application has not been successfully submitted and you will need to lodge another application.

If you require assistance to lodge your application please contact our Talent Acquisition team by emailing recruit@centralcoast.nsw.gov.au to discuss what reasonable adjustments you may need. If you are deaf, hearing or speech impaired, you can contact us through the National Relay Service TTY call 133 677 or Speak & Listen 1300 555 727.

Applicants who are selected for interview will be contacted by phone or e-mail. For further instructions please click here. 

You will have the ability to save your application as you go using the 'Save Application' button. You can start an application and return to it later via the automatic follow-up email once you have the time and required information at hand to finalise your application.  

If you don't have access to a computer or electronic device, you can lodge your application at any of Council's Library locations. Pre-book a free 1-hour computer timeslot by contacting your nearest library https://www.centralcoast.nsw.gov.au/libraries/our-branches or ask at the enquiry counter.

We will not accept unsolicited resumes or applications being presented by recruitment agencies.