Safety and Wellbeing Manager

Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 3
Remuneration: $122,850 - $139,559
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ463517
Where you'll be working
This position required to work across multiple sites within SESLHD
What you'll be doing
The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is ‘exceptional care, healthier lives’. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.
The Safety and Wellbeing Manager position is a strategic role, responsible for building and implementing a strong employee wellbeing programs and initiatives that support a preventative and responsive approach to psychosocial risk in alignment with state and federal regulations and codes of practice. This role leads the development and implementation the SESLHD Employee Mental Health and Wellbeing Framework including psychosocial risk management.
The position reports to the Health Safety & Wellbeing Manager and will be working with the HSW team and stakeholders within the directorate, across the LHD, as well as external to the organization to ensure a framework and associated capabilities are developed in partnership with colleagues, are evidence based, measurable and embedded into SESLHD.
Employee benefits available to you

• Hybrid working/ work from home options
• Accrual of a monthly ADO (additional Day Off)
• Salary packaging a vehicle using novated leasing
• Options of Living Expenses or Meal entertainment via EML Health Salary Packaging
• Fitness Passport - offering employees and immediate family with access to over 900 gyms, pools and recreational centres across NSW at competitive rates
• Free annual flu vaccination to keep everyone healthy during flu season
• Access to My Health Learning (an online learning management system that offers a variety of online courses as well as external programs, conferences and seminars to further your professional development)

• Relevant qualifications in Work Health and Safety, Human Resources, or Clinical professions, or relevant equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience.
• Applied skills and knowledge in either staff or patient wellbeing and/or WHS and/or HR and/or organisational development programs relevant to this role.
• Experience in developing and implementing psychosocial risk management projects in large complex organisations, supporting stakeholders and colleagues to build confidence and competence in managing psychosocial risk.
• Experience in developing and delivering successful communication and change plans.
• Strong project leadership and management skills.
• Advanced problem solving ability with the ability to think laterally and significant experience in the resolution of complex issues.
• Advanced business partnering skills to establish rapport, psychological safety, trust and credibility with colleagues at all levels.
• Current drivers’ licence (with ability and willingness to travel throughout SESLHD, consistent with the demands of the position and customer needs).

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For role related queries or questions contact Vee-Lyn Tan on VeeLyn.Tan@health.nsw.gov.au
Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
All workers and new recruits are required to receive 2 doses of a Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccine to commence employment/ engagement or continue to work within a NSW Health service.
A worker and new recruit will be considered compliant if they have a medical contraindication to all available Therapeutic Goods Administration approved or recognised COVID-19 vaccines and provide medical contraindication evidence in line with the policy requirements.
In addition, all Category A workers and new recruits are required to receive one dose of the seasonal influenza vaccine annually to be considered compliant.
Category A workers and new recruits who are non-compliant with seasonal influenza vaccination or have a medical contraindication to influenza or COVID-19 vaccinations must comply with all other infection control risk reduction strategies as directed while working in a Category A position.
SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply.
Support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates
We welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates and we have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can provide support. If you have any questions or would like guidance on the recruitment process, please contact the SESLHD Aboriginal Employment Team via email to:
Applications Close: 4th of February 2024