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Health & Safety Business Partners x2

Mission Australia
  • Two Full time permanent roles based in Sydney
  • Opportunity to join this expanding team
  • Nationwide charity with a focus on helping vulnerable Australians in need

 About Us

Mission Australia is a non-denominational Christian charity that has been helping vulnerable Australians move towards independence for more than 160 years.

Every day we support people nationwide by combatting homelessness, assisting disadvantaged families and children, addressing mental health issues, fighting substance dependencies and much more. We are generously supported by our funders, partners and tens of thousands of everyday Australians, who make the work of our tireless volunteers and staff possible.

Mission Australia is committed to keeping children and young people safe with zero tolerance of harm or abuse, and expect all our employees and volunteers to reflect this commitment. 

Your Opportunity

Mission Australia is growing our safety team and we will shortly have a team of 5 professionals working together to deliver best practice in safety.  As we grow our team we currently have two opportunities as Safety Business Partners based in Sydney and assisting to drive our safety culture. 

The focus of this role is:

  • Working with the business to develop and implement health and safety risk management plans
  • Development and delivery of health and safety coaching and communication to leaders and their teams.
  • Forming strong relationships across the business and providing regular updates and learnings on changes to legislation and the industry.
  • Conducting risk reviews and audits and ensuring compliance across all sites against compliance standards
  • Incident investigations and supporting managers to correct or improve processes 

Requirements for Success

With an established career in the health and safety sector, you will be experienced working within a large, multi-functional organisation and be committed to continuous improvement processes.

Some of your key capabilities will include:

  • Exceptional knowledge of health and safety processes including risk reviews, audits and improvement plans
  • Solid background in incident investigations and issues resolution
  • An excellent understanding of current safety legislation and the ability to adapt and grow with changes in policy and legislation
  • Capacity to coach, lead, and train leaders and their teams in best practice
  • Excellent communication skills with the ability to engage across appropriate platforms for the audience
  • Ideally experience working within non-profit or community services but not required
  • Ideally relevant tertiary qualifications in safety or a related discipline or large volume of safety experience.

Before starting work with us, you will need to undertake a National Police History Check, Qualifications and Referee Checks, and have a clearance to work with children/vulnerable people. 

Culture & Benefits  

A career with Mission Australia will offer you rewarding experiences to make a difference to the lives of Australians in need. We have an innovative and supportive culture guided by our values of compassion, integrity, respect, perseverance and celebration.

To ensure our employees feel valued, empowered and celebrated we provide a range of employee benefits including:

  • NFP salary packaging benefits reducing taxable income (details via Advantage)
  • Generous discounts with hotels, travel insurance and major retailers
  • Free, confidential counselling services via our EAP
  • Discounted health care with Medibank Private

Diversity & Inclusion

Mission Australia is an inclusive employer. We celebrate our diversity and strive to reflect contemporary Australian society and all the communities in which we work, in order to better serve our clients. We welcome and encourage applications from Women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, Culturally and Linguistically Diverse people, People with Disability, Sexually and Gender Diverse people, people with lived experience of adversity and from people of all ages.

As such, if you require any adjustments to submit your application, we invite you to get in touch via email [email protected].

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