Senior Work Health and Safety Officer

Closes on: January 16, 2015
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Corporate Services – Darwin – Full Time

About Us

Anglicare NT is a respected provider of quality human services across urban, regional and remote area. Anglicare NT offers a range of career opportunities in the community and social services sector in a diverse range of fields such as children and youth, family relationships and counselling, out of home care, refugee and migrant, corporate services, financial counselling, mental health, disability and home care, social enterprises and specialist homelessness services.

Anglicare NT offers great benefits including a commitment to further training and development options, flexible working conditions, five (5) week’s annual leave and a strengths based environment. We also offer great salary packaging options that can significantly increase your take home pay.

Our motto of Respect, Fairness and Community articulates our values of cultural respect, social justice and partnership. By living our values, we work to achieve excellent outcomes and make a lasting difference in the lives of the Territorians.

About the Position

As the Senior Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) Officer, you will work across all areas of Anglicare NT, overseeing the health, safety and wellbeing actions of all personnel and contractors across the organisation. You will be suitably qualified to provide advice, support and coaching to staff and management on WHS best practice, risk management, rehabilitation and case management of injured/ill workers.

You will contribute to the development and review WHS policies, processes and procedures and initiatives within the organisation that support healthy and safe workplace and provide quality reporting on various WHS activities.You will hold a graduate or post graduate in workplace health and safety or other related discipline. You will have demonstrated experience in developing a health and safety management system in a complex multi-faceted organization.

You must possess knowledge and experience in interpreting and applying workplace health and safety and risk management legislation and in workers compensation management and rehabilitation and return to work processes for ill/injured workers.
You will need to hold high level of computer literacy and experience with Microsoft Office suite of programs.

Apply now and in addition to professional development opportunities and generous salary packaging benefits, you will also be rewarded with working with working for one of the largest providers of government-funded welfare, social justice and community development services across the Northern Territory.

To apply

  • Download the Position Description (below) and address section 6.2 and 6.3 of the selection criteria and send along with CV to sfernando@anglicare-nt.org.au by 16 January 2015.

  • You must have a NT Ochre Card and National Criminal History Check (Less than 3 months old).

  • For further information please contact Manager – People and Learning, Kait Findlay on (08) 89850017

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