• Permanent, Full Time
• Darwin

About the Organisation

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose, not for profit organisation of 7,000 employees working in more than 440 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.   

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About this role

Newly created Senior HSE Advisor role located in our Winnellie office on a permanent full time basis. This role will support our Client Services teams throughout the Northern Territory and will involve travel throughout the Territory.

Key Responsibilities

• Provide advice, coaching and support within the portfolio on a range of HSE matters
• Monitor key health and safety performance areas to deliver a culture focused on continuous HSE improvement
• Monitor incidents, actions and outcomes to ensure adequate incident management and proactive measures to minimise reoccurrence
• Assist with incident investigations and other risk management activities as required
• Conduct internal HSE audits to identify non-conformance in key HSE areas
• Monitor compliance of contractor and third party HSE requirements
• Conduct HSE training needs analysis; and coordinate and deliver HSE training to agreed outcomes
• Provide reporting, auditing and analysis of HSE organisational performance

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health and Safety (or related field) and/or equivalent experience within a Human Services organisation
• Demonstrated understanding of current legislative requirements within workplace health safety and environment
• Demonstrated experience in implementing and monitoring a safety management system within a geographically dispersed organisation operating in multi-site locations
• Proven experience in supporting a strong safety culture resulting in improved safety performance
• A self-motivated, results orientated individual with proven experience in building relationships through a partnership approach
• The ability to work autonomously with their portfolio, and as part of the greater HSE team to achieve overall HSE improvement
• Ability to travel within the Northern Territory as required

The Successful candidate will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check and Working with Children Check (where relevant to the role).

Benefits

• Join a growing and transforming industry
• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's largest social purpose organisations
• Excellent tax benefits and rostered days off
• Opportunity to make a huge impact

Life Without Barriers supports the Royal Commission into violence, abuse, neglect and exploitation of people with disability. We believe people with disability need to be heard and for these experiences to influence how support services like ours are delivered. View our statement here.