Work Health Safety Consultant

Work Health Safety Consultant
Permanent Full Time position
Cabrini Malvern location

We’re building for the better!
By 2036, more than 150,000 patients will look to us for healthcare every year.

At Cabrini Health we champion community, compassion and career fulfilment. Our teams are united by the shared purpose of making a meaningful contribution to exceptional, patient-centred care in well- resourced, world class facilities that inspire you to perform at your best and continuously grow professionally.

About the role
As a Work Health Safety Consultant, you will partner with managers and teams across Cabrini to provide expert, practical advice on identifying and managing physical and psychological risks, investigating incidents and implementing effective controls. You will coach and mentor leaders to build their WHS capability and foster a proactive safety culture, while contributing to the delivery of Cabrini’s WHS Plan and the continuous improvement of our WHS Management System.

Key responsibilities include:

• Provide expert WHS advice, guidance and support to managers and teams across Cabrini.
• Coach and mentor leaders to build WHS capability, proactively manage risks and foster a positive safety culture.
• Support incident and hazard investigations, including root cause analysis, corrective actions and effective risk controls.
• Contribute to the implementation and continuous improvement of Cabrini’s WHS Plan, Management System, policies and practices.
• Identify workplace hazards, prevention strategies and opportunities to reduce physical and psychological risks and improve safety outcomes.
• Conduct WHS audits, support the WHS Committee and ensure effective incident and hazard reporting through RiskMan.

About you

• Relevant qualifications - an undergraduate or postgraduate degree in WHS, OHS or a related discipline.
• Strong experience - at least 5 years’ hands-on WHS consulting experience, ideally within a large, complex organisation; healthcare experience is highly regarded.
• Strong technical expertise - sound knowledge of the Workplace Health and Safety Act 2004, risk management, incident and hazard investigation, and physical and psychological workplace risks.
• Influencing and coaching capability - excellent relationship-building, communication and mentoring skills, with the ability to positively influence stakeholders at all levels.
• A proactive, solutions-focused approach - demonstrated ability to identify risks, implement practical controls, conduct audits and contribute to continuous improvement.
• Strong systems and technology skills - experience contributing to WHS management systems and proficiency in Microsoft Office; Certificate IV in Training and Assessment is desirable.

Why Cabrini?

• Tax savings - increase your take-home pay with Salary Packaging up to $18,850 per annum
• Attractive remuneration with guaranteed annual increases + 13% superannuation and 17.5% annual leave loading
• Access to a range of staff benefits including retail offers, discounted fitness facility memberships, hospital services and savings on eligible private health fund services
• Discounted Myki Commuter club fare
• Excellent workplace culture in a mission-based, values driven healthcare organisation
• Opportunity to influence safety outcomes, strengthen leadership capability and contribute to initiatives that make a genuine difference

Interested? For further information, view the full position description here
Enquiries can be directed to: Athena Andrews, Director Safety & Wellbeing - 0412 927 995.

Apply early! This role may close sooner than the listed closing date if we find the right candidate – so don’t wait to get your application in.

To find out more please visit our Careers website: https://www.cabrini.com.au/work-with-us/

Does this sound like your new role? Bring your skills and enthusiasm to Cabrini Health and help optimise the patient experience and health outcomes for our community.

Cabrini Health acknowledges the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for people of all backgrounds and abilities. Inclusion is core to our mission.

As part of our commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

Working for Cabrini

Cabrini Health is a Catholic, private, for-purpose health service located in Melbourne’s southeast. Inspired by the mission and ethic of care of the Cabrini Sisters, providing quality, compassionate care to our community for more than 75 years.

There is something special about Cabrini Health. Our highly skilled staff and specialists incorporate clinical research, innovative models of care and state-of-the-art technology to deliver the best possible care and outcomes for our patients. We demonstrate our mission to serve our community through outreach programs that support asylum seekers, provide healthcare in rural communities and in underdeveloped countries.

Our size, reputation and growth strategy ensure genuine opportunities for our people to learn, grow and realise potential.

Our values: Compassion - Integrity - Courage - Respect

MANDATORY FOR ALL NEW STAFF TO CABRINI

Employment with Cabrini Health will be based on satisfactory background checks such as professional references, National Police Check, vaccinations for annual Influenza and COVID-19 (recommended), plus a Working with Children Check (WWCC) may also be requested.