The Regional Safety Operations team leads a range of projects and activities in workplace health and safety and wellbeing to achieve its strategic workforce objectives.
As part of the Regional Safety Operations Team, the Senior Advisor is responsible for advising on workplace health and safety and organisational wellbeing across the department, specifically in the Far North Queensland Region.
The role provides a high level of specialist advice and support to supervisors and managers in work health and safety matters and implementing departmental policies and procedures for workplace health and safety and organisational wellbeing, as well as designing and implementing specific initiatives in these areas.
This role also supports the Workcover processes within the region.
The Senior Advisor Key Responsibilities Are: Contribute to the development, implementation, and evaluation of staff safety, wellbeing, and workers' compensation strategies, systems, and procedures in collaboration with other stakeholders.Provide authoritative advice to senior management and staff on a broad range of contemporary safety, wellbeing, and workers' compensation issues.Develop strategies to ensure the delivery of appropriate safety, wellbeing, and workers' compensation education and awareness training sessions for service delivery staff, managers, and supervisors.Monitor trends in injuries, illnesses, and occurrences across the department and prepare detailed reports for managers and stakeholders with recommendations for managing identified staff safety and wellbeing issues.Liaise with other government agencies, statutory authorities, professional organisations, unions, and external service providers in the management of issues affecting safety, wellbeing, and Work Cover.Contribute to the evaluation of services and initiatives to ensure services provided are value-adding and achieving business goals of the agency.Applications to remain current for 12 months.
Occupational group: HR & Industrial Relations
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