The Public Health Unit is looking for Team Leader Environmental Health to join their team.
The unit's primary role is to enhance the health of the community by preventing disease, illness and injury whilst promoting health and wellbeing, and managing risk.
This is achieved through enhanced health surveillance, management of environmental hazards, food safety and standards, communicable disease control and immunisations, public health incident management and medical entomology.
The role delivers advanced environmental health services to the Metro South community to achieve excellence in public health regulation and environmental health practice.
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim.
We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services.
We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.
We are truly dedicated people who care about our community.
We come to work to make a difference.
We save lives, change lives and make the world a better place.
We overcome the many challenges that come our way by going above and beyond and achieve the best possible outcomes by working together.
We are bold, innovative, collaborative, inspiring.
We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation and family responsibilities to apply.
We are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community.
Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role
Deliver specialised environmental health services across Metro South Health in accordance with accepted professional practices, legal and ethical requirements with a high degree of independence.
Apply advanced level independent professional judgement regarding the assessment and planning of complex investigations and responses to public health risk.
Demonstrate high-level leadership and mentoring to problem solve urgent and emergent complex issues and support staff across the team to be actively involved.
Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence , shape our culture within Metro South Health.
Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
Applicants are encouraged to apply online; please review the Role Description for more information on application process requirements.
Agency referrals will not be accepted for this position.
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