Division: Corporate Services
Location:Parramatta, NSW, AU, 2150
Req ID: 75839
Senior Advisor Work Health and Safety

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YOUR ROLE

The Senior Advisor is to deliver best practice Work health safety (WHS) initiatives, strategies, reporting, services, and advice across diverse work activities and divisions within the NSW Department of Communities and Justice (DCJ) and Corrective Services NSW (CSNSW).
The opportunity is in Work Health Safety within People Branch. This role is focused on the strategic implement of the DCJ Safety Management System and WHS strategy. It works with a team that provides specialist WHS support, develops and delivers the departments WHS strategic programs and systems.

WHAT YOU’LL DO

The focus of the role is:

• The development and communication of safety-related, policies, procedures, supporting documents, tools, and information to create an integrated DCJ Safety Management System.
• Providing safety advice as a subject matter expert leading and/or assisting with safety initiatives including projects.
• Supporting the development and implementation of safety consultation, communication and coordination practices within the department.

The DCJ workforce is diverse across eight DCJ divisions and in addition the WHS Group supports CSNSW as an executive agency.
The role reports to the Senior Manager, Work Health Safety and provides safety advice to Public Sector Senior Executives, Managers and Workers to ensure due diligence and compliance requirements are satisfied.

THANK YOU FOR YOUR INTEREST IN THIS ROLE. WE LOOK FORWARD TO RECEIVING YOUR APPLICATION.

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In addition to meeting the essential requirements outlined in the role description, the successful candidate must demonstrate strong capabilities in:

• Facilitating support for WHS requirements while balancing organisational goals and working with external stakeholders, including SafeWork NSW and unions.
• Developing WHS initiatives that meet legislative requirements whilst responding to the changing needs of the business.
• Performing a quality assurance role by developing tools and frameworks to enable business divisions to coordinate reviews, audits, and investigations on all WHS matters.
• Problem solving capability to embed innovative solutions to historical challenges across large complex organisations and structures.
• Be capable of providing expert and timely advice to build and influence business areas to achieve improved safety culture.
• You must possess a passion for WHS and the safety of staff, this must be coupled with significant experience and/or relevant qualifications in WHS.
• It is a requirement of the role that you have the capability to use various Microsoft and Adobe software applications that enables you to perform this role.
• You are a ‘policy buff’ with experience that enables you to delineate between ‘work as imagined’ vs ‘work as done’ and you can communicate this in your policy creation.
• You must possess a current NSW Drivers licence and be willing and able to drive a motor vehicle as the role will require intrastate travel.
• You are a natural people leader as this role may have direct reports