• Senior manager role promoting & providing leadership for a safe working environm
• Competitive salary on offer includes NFP salary packaging
• Based in Notting Hill, flexible hybrid working arrangements

About the role

We are seeking an experienced and values-driven leader to build positive, engaging and productive stakeholder relationships with our various leaders and staff to ensure that HSW obligations and standards are consistently applied in all activities across our diverse work sites.

This pivotal role is central to building and promoting positive HSW outcomes to continuously improve HSW performance, consistent with contemporary practice, current research and legislative compliance requirements.

This role is based at our Notting Hill head office.

As our ideal candidate, you will possess:

• Relevant Health and Safety qualification with 3+ years’ senior HSW management experience in organisations of 200+ employees.
• Proven experience as a HSW practitioner/manager implementing changes to legislation, regulations in HSW.
• Demonstrated experience developing and implementing policies, procedures, guidelines and other strategic initiatives to influence and inform the fostering of a safe and inclusive workplace.
• Well-developed leadership and management capability (with NFP and/or multi-site workforce management experience is preferable).
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with the ability to interact well with diverse staff and senior leaders and to represent the organisation in external forums.
• Well-developed stakeholder engagement, consultation, facilitation, negotiation and influencing skills.

About St John Ambulance Victoria

St John Ambulance (Vic) has been saving lives and delivering care and compassion throughout Victoria for 140 years. Our people, both paid and volunteer, are the lifeblood of everything we do.

Our people and our clients come from all walks of life. We are committed to creating a diverse environment and are proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We value the innovation and creativity that diversity of thought brings to our high-performance culture, and we welcome applications from anyone who believes they can deliver the outcomes we are looking for.

Your unique ideas and perspectives are valued so that we best represent the community we serve.

Employee benefits

• Excellent salary packaging options including General Expenses up to $15,900, Meals and Entertainment up to $2,650 and Novated Leasing
• Supportive team environment in modern offices
• Hybrid work from home and onsite model
• Flexible working arrangements
• Training and professional development opportunities
• Access to discounted Private Health Insurance, free onsite parking

How to apply

If you are looking to join an organisation where you can really make a difference, apply today. We actively welcome and encourage candidates from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, First Nation and Torres Strait Islander candidates, members of the LGBTQIA+ community and candidates with a disability.

To be considered for this role, please follow the link and submit your current resume.

If you require adjustments to the recruitment and selection process or need an alternative format to any of the application material, please don't hesitate to get in touch.

Enquires can be directed to Amanda Harris, Talent Acquisition Specialist, [email protected] using the subject line: Manager - Health, Safety & Wellbeing enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Other Information

All offers of employment are subject to satisfactory reference checks, national police checks, and other probity checks are included for some positions, such as a pre-employment medical.

St John Ambulance Victoria is committed to putting the safety and wellbeing of children first, a current and valid Working with Children Check is a mandatory condition of employment.

No recruitment agencies, please.