Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist

The Health, Safety & Wellbeing Team (HSW) are responsible for driving the health and safety programs to ensure a proactive and engaging HSW culture across Garvan. The HSW Team put people at the heart of health and safety to enable Garvan to do great science, safely. Partnering with all levels of management and staff, The HSW Team lead, coordinate and advise on all work health and safety matters to protect from harm and provide meaningful direction.

THE OPPORTUNITY

Are you an experienced Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist? Maybe you’re looking for work-life balance or want to try something new? In this exciting part time opportunity, you will be working with all levels of management and staff to implement the health & safety management system (HSMS) throughout Garvan! This role will be a leading participant in the continuous improvement of the health & safety culture program working collaboratively with the broader HSW team and key stakeholders.

The Senior Health, Safety & Wellbeing Specialist will assist Garvan to meet legislative requirements relating to WHS to achieve best practice across the Institute.

The HSW Team is the HSMS custodian, promoting its functionality, and creating a great user experience by providing support to internal and external stakeholders.

Salary: Full time equivalent salary from $100k + 10.5% super + salary packaging

Employment Type: 10-month fixed term contract part time (20-30 hours per week)

SNAPSHOT OF BENEFITS

Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accom)

Ample opportunities for on-going training and development

Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment

Flexible work arrangements e.g. start / finish times etc

A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave

Discounted Health Insurance

Lifestyle discounts with our community partners

WHAT YOU WILL DO

The key responsibilities include:

Positively influence, and advise people leaders and staff on health and safety matters, requirements under WHS legislation, and drive forward the agenda for positive health and safety culture in the workplace;

Lead the development, implementation and day to day management of the Health & Safety Management System (HSMS) at all Garvan work sites, including the review/development of policies and processes;

Support & play a lead role in research risk management activities including training and coordination of Group Risk Managers and the risk management database;

Implementing Health, Safety & Wellbeing strategies, training and programs to support health & safety, compliance and effective application in the workplace;

Conduct health and safety and biosafety inspections and audits;

Conduct health and safety investigations and provide robust analysis of root causes and corrective actions;

Monitor changes to WHS legislation and standards and notify relevant parties regarding changes;

Provide guidance, advise and support on health, safety, compliance queries including import and export of scientific commodities

Partner with stakeholders (including People Leaders & Group Risk Managers) to actively assess and deliver safety outcomes;

Contribute as an effective team member to enable identified strategies, plans and customer services to be achieved;

Assist with Injury and Claim Management as required.

ABOUT YOU

Demonstrated success and previous experience in a WHS role;

Previous experience within a laboratory, science or research organisation is highly desirable;

Previous experience managing workplace injuries as a Return to Work Coordinator is highly desirable;

Proven experience in assisting with developing, implementing and monitoring of a WHS Management System, and the supporting plans, policies, procedures and guidelines

Good knowledge and demonstrated experience in WHS principles

Good knowledge of current WHS legislation

Ability to confidently work with scientific staff in documenting their procedures

Strong customer service ethic and approach

Excellent written and oral communications

Demonstrated ability to work with limited supervision

Competent in the use of key desktop applications (MSWord, Excel, PowerPoint).

RTW Coordinator Certificate (desirable)

ABOUT GARVAN

The Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision. We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.

Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.

We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.

Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. We are always looking for culture ‘add’, not culture ‘fit’ and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.

HOW TO APPLY

To apply for this position, please submit your application with a CV and cover letter as one document, stating why you are interested in this role. We are reviewing applications as they are received. If you think you’re the right person for this role, we’d love to hear how your capabilities, achievements and experience set you apart. Only applicants with full working rights in Australia are eligible to apply for this role.