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About Regional Safety Operations
The Regional Safety Operations team leads a range of projects and activities in workplace health and safety and wellbeing to achieve its strategic workforce objectives.
Your contribution
As part of the Regional Safety Operations Team, the Senior Advisor is responsible for advising on workplace health and safety and organisational wellbeing across the department, specifically in the Central Queensland Region.
The role provides a high level of specialist advice and support to supervisors and managers in work health and safety matters and implementing departmental policies, procedures for workplace health and safety and organisational wellbeing, as well as designing and implementing specific initiatives in these areas.
This role also supports the WorkCover processes within the region.
Job details Position status Fixed Term Temporary
Position type Full-time
Occupational group Occupational Health & Safety
Classification AO6
Workplace Location Cairns region
Job ad reference QLD/536984/24
Closing date 25-Jan-2024
Yearly salary
Fortnightly salary
Total remuneration
Salary Other
Job duration 04/10/2024 with possibility of extension
Contact person John Murray
Contact details Mobile: 0436 622 609
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Key duties and responsibilities:
The Senior Advisor key responsibilities are:

• Contribute to the development, implementation and evaluation of staff safety, wellbeing and workers compensation strategies, systems and procedures in collaboration with other stakeholders.
• Provide authoritative advice to senior management and staff on a broad range of contemporary safety, wellbeing and workers compensation issues.
• Develop strategies to ensure the delivery of appropriate safety, wellbeing and workers compensation education and awareness training sessions for service delivery staff, managers and supervisors.
• Monitor trends in injuries, illnesses and occurrences across the department and prepare detailed reports for managers and stakeholders with recommendations for managing identified staff safety and wellbeing issues.
• Liaise with other government agencies, statutory authorities, professional organisations, unions, external service providers etc in the management of issues affecting safety, wellbeing and Workcover.
• Contribute to the evaluation of services and initiatives so as to ensure services provided are value-adding and achieving business goals of the agency.

Role specific/technical skills:

• You possess expert knowledge and application with high level outcomes of Workplace Health and Safety, risk assessments, the Work Health and Safety Act 2011, Workers Compensation and Return to Work, other relevant legislation, codes and standards. You possess expert knowledge of issues affecting employee wellbeing (both physical and psychological) in a frontline public service delivery environment. You possess highly developed skills and previously demonstrated experience of designing, training and implementing employee safety and wellness initiatives.

Desirable Requirements:

• It is highly desirable that employees are vaccinated against COVID-19.
• Qualifications in Workplace Health and Safety and Return to Work.

Location for this role is flexible.
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