"Consultant: Safety and Wellbeing (HEO 7)"

• Based in the People, Talent and Culture team at the City West campus
• Full-time, continuing position
• Commencement salary: $96,696 per annum (plus 17% superannuation)

About You 

Combining tertiary qualifications and experience in work health and safety, you are an experienced WHS partner who has worked in a complex organisation. You are a skilled communicator who has the ability to build constructive relationships with a wide variety of stakeholders with the view to influence the implementation and maintenance of a strong safety and wellbeing culture that is embedded in core business activities. 

About the Role 

Reporting to the Senior Consultant: Safety and Wellbeing, you will establish networks and build relationships across the University. You will provide a high level safety and wellbeing consultancy service to senior managers and staff. You will participate in strategic planning, undertake incident investigations and develop and provide safety training and as part of maintaining the whole of University safety and wellbeing safety management system. 

About UniSA 

The University of South Australia is Australia’s University of Enterprise. Our culture of innovation is anchored around global and national links to academic, research and industry partners. Our graduates are the new urban professionals, global citizens at ease with the world and ready to create and respond to change. Our research is inventive and adventurous and we create new knowledge that is central to global economic and social prosperity.

Essential Skills and Experience

• Tertiary qualifications in work health and safety combined with relevant experience as a WHS partner 
• High level interpersonal, communication and influencing skills 
• High level written and analytical skills and experience in preparing reports and recommendations for senior managers
• Ability to work well with others across multi-disciplinary teams and be self-directed at other times
• Ability to prioritise and effectively organise workload to achieve defined outcomes
• High level computer literacy and ability to adapt to new technology

Benefits 

Getting a great job working with the best is just the start. UniSA rewards its staff with a wide variety of benefits such as: 

• Access to great personal development opportunities 
• Generous superannuation contributions of 17% 
• Work life flexibility including working from home, family responsibility leave and individual flexibility agreements
• Employee assistance and development programs 
• Corporate health insurance 

Culture 

At the University of South Australia, we value workplace diversity and are committed to providing a supportive, inclusive, and respectful work environment for all people. We strongly encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, women, members of the LGBTIQ+ community, people of culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disability. 

We are committed to providing an equitable and barrier free recruitment process and encourage you to share any support, adjustments and/or access requirements you have by contacting our Recruitment Central team on recruitment@unisa.edu.au. Anything you tell us will be kept completely confidential. 

Start Your Unstoppable Career! 

For a copy of the position description and to apply, please visit Working at UniSA. Applicants are required to upload a cover letter and resume only. 

Please address your cover letter to Ruth Haren, Team Leader: Recruitment Central. For further information about the position or the recruitment process, please contact UniSA Recruitment Central on +61 8 8302 1700 or via email at recruitment@unisa.edu.au using job reference number 6374. 

Applications close: 11.30pm Sunday 11 August 2024