Senior Safety Consultant

The Employee Health Safety and Wellbeing team are looking for a Senior Safety Consultant to join their team. Working out of Meadowbrook, you have the opportunity to coordinate, develop and implement innovative strategies to improve Health Service performance in Employee Health Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) including work-related violence and aggression prevention and the management of psychosocial risks.

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population. 

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role

• Coordinate, deliver and lead initiatives to improve safety performance and employee health and wellbeing across the health service.
• Effectively manage the implementation of significant and complex safety and wellbeing projects including state-wide work-related violence and aggression prevention initiatives and Employee Assistance Program activity
• Conduct and/or coordinate sound research, analysis, and report preparation to inform ethical and informed decision making in the achievement of project or organisational goals.
• Establish and maintain effective relationships with key internal and external stakeholders including attendance at networks, forums, and committees.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).