Senior Wellbeing Health and Safety Advisor

Why work with us?

At Council, we’re proud of our region. We collaborate with community to achieve truly sustainable outcomes, enhance our enviable lifestyle, and create award-winning places and spaces that are uniquely Sunshine Coast. So, if you love it here as much as we do, and you want to shape our region for the future – you’ll want to join our team!

With the vision to be Australia’s most sustainable region - Healthy, Smart, and Creative, council is at the forefront of delivering a number of region-shaping projects that will see the region become a hub for innovation, entrepreneurship and creativity, along with opportunities and a lifestyle for all to enjoy.

About the Role

The Sunshine Coast Council cares about our people and our place and we work together with our community, to create award winning spaces, and deliver services to enhance our lifestyle and improve our region.

So we’re actively looking for knowledge from different voices, bringing in new thoughts and ideas so we can remain one of Australia’s most innovative Council’s.

The Wellbeing Health & Safety team partners with the business to inspire an environment for great leadership and people capability to build on our outstanding organisation for today and the future.

The Senior Wellbeing, Health and Safety Advisor promotes a proactive health and safety culture across Council, leading and participating in initiatives and strategies that contribute to employee well-being and safety. Undertake activities consistent with the WHS strategy and legislation in order to reduce workplace injury and disease, and ensure Council employees, contractors, volunteers and visitors are free from hazards and risks.

• Contribute to a WHS Team and within customer teams to place Sunshine Coast Council at the forefront of contemporary WHS management to ensure the WHS system has capacity to perform its intended purpose
• Lead the delivery, and contribute to the development ofstrategic WHS initiatives including our critical risk program, safety management system refresh, contractor safety management and wellbeing plan.
• Conduct incident investigations and apply Human and Organisational Principles to create event learnings.
• Provide evidence based WHS thought leadership to leaders to day to day activities and projects to improve WHS engagement and implementation.
• Promote contemporary safety practices to build capability and support engagement of leaders and frontline teams. 

About you

For success in this role, you will understand, support and promote the organisation's vision, mission, and business objectives. Identifies the relationship between organisational goals and operational tasks.  Clearly communicates goals and objectives to others.

You will have experience in successfully applying contemporary safety practice and a relevant undergraduate degree in WHS or other and/or equivalent relevant experience.

Experience in conducting complex and sensitive incident investigations and apply HOP event learnings will be well regarded.

As a safety professional you will have strong leadership skills and demonstrated ability to positively lead, inspire and empower others, drive high performance, develop and coach team members, and foster a workplace culture consistent with Council’s corporate values.

You will be a natural leader with outstanding communication skills, coaching capabilities and passion for wellbeing, health & safety excellence.

Our Culture & Employee Benefits

Council is committed to creating an inclusive, culturally diverse, healthy, skilled and dedicated workplace culture. As an employee you will enjoy a range of benefits and working styles to suit you:

• Wellbeing: Your wellbeing is important to us therefore we offer a number of different initiatives such as discounted health related memberships, fitness passport, employee assistance program and development opportunities. 
• Flexibility: We know it is important to balance life and work, therefore we offer flexible working including a 9-day fortnight and a hybrid WFH model that help you be your best.
• Extras: Those extras make a difference therefore we offer salary packaging options on novated leases, superannuation, smartphones and devices. We also pay you 17.5% leave loading and generous Superannuation where council will contribute 12% Superannuation in addition to your 6% superannuation contribution.

How to apply

Your written application should include:

• A 1-2 page cover letter demonstrating your ability to fulfil the mandatory and desirable requirements on the Position Profile. Keep the key responsibilities in mind when addressing this criteria; and
• A current resume or curriculum vitae.

Once you have these two documents ready, click ‘Apply Now’ and follow the prompts to complete your application.

Further Information

Helpful information to assist you in completing your application is available on the Sunshine Coast Council website.

To learn more about Council’s vision and projects, you can view the Corporate Plan 2023-2027.

For specific enquiries contact Michelle Atkinson during business hours on 0438 143 376.

We're working hard to create an inclusive workplace that reflects the diverse community we serve. If you require adjustments at any stage of the recruitment process, please reach out to the Recruitment Team [email protected].

At Sunshine Coast Council, we embrace differences in gender, age, ethnicity, race, cultural background including First Nations, disability, religion and sexual orientation. To deliver the best service to our region we want a workforce that reflects the diverse community that we serve. Sunshine Coast Council strongly encourages all suitable applicants to apply for this role.