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SalaryJob Title: Safety Business Partner
Job Type: Permanent Full time
Location: Tranmere
Love what you do. Love where you work.
Benefits & Perks
- Excellent salary benefits to increase your take home pay
- Meal Entertainment and Holiday Accommodation Card provides you with an additional $2650 tax free per year
- 17.5% annual leave loading
- Discounted Private Health insurance
- EAP - employee assistance program
- Ongoing training and development opportunities
- Supportive and friendly working environment
- Supportive and committed leadership
We are seeking a motivated, proactive Safety Business Partners to join our team to contribute to, facilitate and influence active engagement of stakeholders. Coaching, guiding, and mentoring our teams, building health and safety capability is a key focus of this role. Reporting to the Safety Manager, the Business Partner will directly engage with our residential sites providing safety leadership, and support
About You
To be successful in this role you will need
- Facilitate and influence the active engagement of relevant stakeholders
- Work collaboratively with and value a one team philosophy.
- Are adaptable to change
- Are flexible to work across a range of sites and services (including intrastate travel)
The successful candidate should be able to demonstrate:
- Formal safety qualifications (minimum Certificate IV)
- At least 2 years’ experience in a health and safety role (within self-insured environment preferred)
- Knowledge of South Australian WHS Act, regulations and codes of practice
- Experience working across multiple sites
- Broad based computer literacy intermediate MS Word, MS Excel, and MS PowerPoint
- Internal audit and training qualifications are desirable
- Role model safety behavior's and assist our teams to develop their ability to manage safety hazards and risks
- Review, consult and communicate organisational policies and procedures
- Guide the implementation of our organisational policies and procedures
- Provide advice on the management and control of safety hazards and risks in line with Helping Hand policies and procedures
- Support the return to work of injured employees
- Lead incident investigations of high severity incidents, identify corrective actions and provide input into solutions to prevent further issues
- Facilitate and participate in audit and assurance activities as scheduled
- Provide safety related training, coaching and guidance
Be part of a vibrant, inclusive, friendly organisation that genuinely cares for its staff. Helping Hand is a not-for-profit organisation offering in-home help, retirement living and residential care to over 7,000 older South Australians in Adelaide and regional South Australia. Our staff do more than simply treat the physical needs of the people they care for. They are skilled, patient, respectful and kind, forming relationships with their clients, assuring them, caring for them, and protecting them.
Our diverse range of services allow people to choose to stay at home and receive assistance, downsize to a retirement living unit or move into one of our eleven fully accredited residential facilities through our team of more than 1,900 staff.
Helping Hand provides guidance to our workforce to support diversity, inclusion and belonging through The Helping Hand Way and our specific projects in the areas and communities of LGBTQIA+, Cultural Diversity, Forgotten Australians/Care Leavers, gender equality and family and domestic violence.
Please, note the following requirements for work in the Aged Care Sector:
- Current Influenza vaccination
- Current National Police Clearance
For a detailed position description,
If you would like to be an active part of the Helping Hand community and genuinely want to make a difference to our clients and staff, then we want to meet you.
For enquiries please contact
All applicants must have the right to work in Australia and hold a current national police.
All current Helping Hand employees should notify their current supervisor of their intent to apply.
