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Form of workEmployment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Mgr Lvl 4
Remuneration: 133671 - 159929 - full time equivalent base salary range (excludes super, leave loading and salary packaging)
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ388863
Sydney Children's Hospitals Network is the largest paediatric health care entity in Australia. We care for thousands of children each year in our hospitals and in their homes — with one purpose in mind — to help young people live their healthiest lives.
Are you looking for an opportunity to join a world class tertiary paediatric specialty network?
Westmead and/or Randwick location, with flexibility
Pivotal leadership role
The Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network (SCHN) cares for thousands of children and young people each year in our hospitals and in the community. As well as providing a safe and caring environment for our children and young people, we are also committed to providing the safest possible workplace for all our people.
We are looking for a passionate and talented leader with a successful track record in leading a workplace health and safety or a risk management function in a large complex organisation.
The ideal candidate will be a people-focussed professional who is engaging, resilient, hands-on and able to cope with ambiguity in a complex and challenging environment. With strong interpersonal skills you are able to quickly establish credibility and influence senior stakeholders up to executive level.
You will operate as a member of the People & Culture leadership team, driving Network-wide initiatives that contribute to a culture where safety and wellness are embraced and embedded in every aspect of work underpinning the delivery of quality healthcare.
The Manager Health, Safety and Wellbeing will:
Partner with leaders at all levels to provide advice and support to understand both their safe workplace obligations and the frameworks, tools and legislation to support them and their teams to mitigate physical and psychological risks
Identify and implement proactive initiatives to support a safety culture, and to drive organisational maturity, and influence change across all aspects of health, safety and wellbeing
Develop frameworks to support the organisation’s health safety and well-being compliance obligations
Lead a team that provides contemporary specialist knowledge, and advice on all aspects of work health and safety, well-being, workplace rehabilitation, workers compensation, and return to work
Model safe work and well-being practices, and be regarded as a trusted leader
Relevant tertiary qualifications in an appropriate discipline and/or extensive workplace Safety, Wellbeing and Workers Compensation experience
Demonstrated experience acting as a trusted advisor to the Executive and Management team. This includes providing expert advice on identifying and forecasting risks, issues and opportunities in business decision making
Extensive experience communicating, liaising and negotiating with key stakeholders and relevant authorities, including but not limited to Safe Work NSW, and insurance providers
Extensive experience and a record of success in driving proactive safety and well-being initiatives within a complex and fast changing organisation
Demonstrated ability to lead the organisation’s compliance with work health, safety and well-being obligations under relevant Acts, Regulations, Authorities, Policies as well as industry Codes of Practice and project-specific requirements
Demonstrated capability to lead and manage a multidisciplinary team
Demonstrated ability to act as a mentor, guide, and facilitator to other leaders, identifying and liaising with key stakeholders and authorities as needed
Proven ability to undertake analysis of key safety and well-being performance data, and to support the management of operational budgets, insurance premiums/budgets, individual claims costs and statistical and claims data.
SCHN is an Equal Opportunity Employer that values diversity - we acknowledge the vibrancy that a diverse workforce brings to enhance both our workplace culture and our service delivery to children, young people and their families and carers. We encourage all suitably qualified applicants to apply. If you identify as an Indigenous Australian or as a person with a disability, please contact us if you would like some more information about our recruitment process.
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are encouraged to apply. We recognise the value of Aboriginal staff providing health care to Aboriginal children and families that access the services we provide at the Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network. Aboriginal job applicants are encouraged to visit the NSW Health Aboriginal Recruitment tool, Stepping Up to assist in preparing your application.
All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course (2 doses) of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate (IM011 immunisation medical exemption form) certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW.
Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations.
Please note: To be eligible for permanent appointment to a position in NSW Health, you must have an Australian citizenship or permanent Australian residency.
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For role related queries or questions contact Adam Fogarty on Adam.Fogarty@health.nsw.gov.au
If you are Aboriginal or Torres Strait islander wishing to apply for this role and want to speak with an Aboriginal person/representative from the Sydney Children’s Hospital Network please contact Wayne Dargan on 0486012545.
For technical support please contact the customer services team on 1300 679 367 and select option 3.
Applications Close: 8/04/2023
