• Permanent full time position
• South Melbourne location

Exciting newly created position for a Work Health and Safety Professional. This is your opportunity to shape your new role, fully supported by the existing framework within MacKillop Family Services.

AboutMacKillop Family Services

Established in 1997, MacKillop Family Services strives to ensure all families are supported to provide children with a safe and permanent home, and the best possible start to their lives.

Continuing the child and family welfare programs of our three founding agencies – the Sisters of Mercy, the Sisters of St Joseph and the Christian Brothers – we provide early intervention programs to support the most vulnerable families, and provide education, disability support, home-based care and out of home care for vulnerable children and young people in Victoria, NSW and WA.

MacKillop has almost 1,500 staff, operating out of more than 50 sites, and has forecast annual revenue for the 2019/20 financial year of over $145 million.

About the role

The HR Senior Partner, Health and Safety is an integral role in the organisation reporting to the HR Manager – Wellbeing & Safety and is responsible for the delivery of health & safety initiatives to achieve MacKillop’s strategic and operational, work, health & safety objectives. This position is a key role in the Work Health & Safety team.

As a member of the broader Human Resources team, the HR Senior Partner, Health and Safety contributes to embedding Sanctuary and working in a collaborative and collegiate manner in the development and implementation of the HR strategic and operational plans.

The HR Senior Partner, Health and Safety is responsible for conducting audits, hazard identification and implementation controls to achieve MacKillop’s strategic work, health & safety and operational outcomes.

The HR Senior Partner, Health and Safety will provide specialised knowledge of workplace hazard identification and analysis, along with a detailed understanding of work health and safety risk management principles and their application in complex and diverse settings that include the residential care of young people with high risk behaviours.

About you

Key selection criteria include:

• Tertiary or minimum Cert IV Workplace Safety Qualifications or equivalent level of expertise gained from a combination of experience, training, professional accreditation and qualification.
• An extensive understanding of multiple workplace hazards and the detailed principles of their identification and analysis, along with a detailed understanding of all principles of work health and safety risk management and their application in a complex diverse setting.
• Detailed knowledge of all legal processes for WH&S compliance, workers compensation law and common law liability, along with a detailed knowledge and understanding of emergency and critical management principles
• Demonstrated experience in high level negotiation skills and the ability to resolve complex issues.
• Demonstrated ability to analyse complex WH&S and workers compensation problems. Demonstrated ability to develop policies in WH&S and workers compensation.
• Highly effective written and oral communication skills in a wide range of forums such the WH&S Management and Occupational Health and Safety Committee environments as well as high level training facilitation skills.
• Current Building Fire Safety Advisor, Rehabilitation and Return to Work Coordinator and Advanced First Aid qualifications.
• Excellent interpersonal skills, with a demonstrated capacity to work collaboratively with others and exercise influence in a diversity of contexts.
• An outgoing, solution-focused outlook with a sense of humour.

Please view the Position Description for further information.

MacKillop is committed to being a child safe organisation. Applicants will be required to undergo a criminal records check and hold a valid employment Working with Children Check to be successful.

For more information, please contact Roland Fielding, HR Manager - Wellbeing & Safety at [email protected] or 03 9257 2232.

If you are passionate about the wellbeing of children and young people at risk, and you want to make a positive contribution to our team, then we would like to hear from you.

How to Apply

Click Apply Now where you will be redirected to the HR Senior Partner, Health and Safety vacancy within MacKillop's careers page. On this page please click Apply Now, this will take you to our recruitment portal.

Please address the key selection criteria (as outlined in the Position Description) within your cover letter, as part of your application.

Download the position description HERE.

Applications close: Thursday 11 June 2020