Are you seeking a role that will allow you to use your extraordinary Workplace Health & Safety Business Partner experience? If so, this is your job. 

About the Role

This is a new role with a focus on partnering with Yooralla leadership and staff to promote and deliver a proactive and preventative safety culture through the provision of high-quality and best practice workplace health, safety and wellbeing advice, guidance and support and to respond to issues and incidents as identified.

Your proven ability to build relationships, provide advice on health and safety matters and technical expertise on risk management processes will have you perfectly suited to this critical role.

About You:

 To be successful in this role, you will need:

• Experience working in a business partnership capacity alongside leaders in the delivery of health, safety and wellbeing solutions
• Experience. With working with and developing WHS systems and processes.
• Extensive knowledge of the OH&S Act 2004 and Regulations
• Familiarity with contemporary practice in relation to the management of key risks in the disability sector including Manual Handling and Psycho-social risk
• Excellent interpersonal skills, facilitation influencing, stakeholder management and general negotiation skill

All employees are responsible for:

• Promoting and protecting the human rights of people with disability, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (2008);
• Working to ensure high-quality and safe supports and services for NDIS participants,
  meeting and exceeding the NDIS Practice Standards and
  Quality Indicators;
• Meeting obligations under all relevant Victorian and Commonwealth legislation;
• Working in accordance with the Yooralla Code of Conduct and Employee Manual;
• Support a risk aware culture by proactively identifying and reporting risk
• Identify, manage and monitor risks within their area and support a risk aware culture where staff actively identify and report risks.

Mandatory Requirements

• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• Current driver licence to drive in Australia
• International Police Check (If Applicable)

Personal Skills and Attributes

• Strong leadership skills, with the ability to negotiate and provide expert advice on WHS matters, including incident management and risk mitigation strategies.
• Proven ability to coordinate WHS processes, ensuring timely implementation of early intervention strategies and proactive safety measures.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively both independently and as part of a team to achieve WHS outcomes within specified deadlines.
• High proficiency in technology, particularly Microsoft Office Suite and WHS-related software systems.
• Commitment to fostering a culture of safety and wellness, driving continuous improvement in WHS practices.
• Exceptional organizational and time management skills, with the capacity to manage multiple WHS projects and priorities simultaneously.
• Ability to handle sensitive information with confidentiality and maintain high integrity in managing WHS-related cases.
• Strong interpersonal skills, facilitating effective collaboration and positive working relationships with both internal and external stakeholders.
• Demonstrated commitment to continuous quality improvement in WHS practices, with a focus on achieving positive outcomes for all stakeholders.
• Demonstrated capacity to manage time effectively, handle competing priorities, and work autonomously when required.

Working with Yooralla

We employ individuals dedicated to providing quality, sustainable and flexible services, that uphold human rights and create opportunities, empowering individuals to live the life they choose. Yooralla has a long history of working to build a world where people with disability are equal citizens.

We offer

• An attractive remuneration package with excellent salary packaging tax benefits
• Excellent central CBD location
• Flexible working hours
• A rewarding career in a growing service sector
• Supportive team environment
• The opportunity to work alongside and empower people with disability to reach their maximum potential
• Ongoing training, team support and professional development

Sound like you? 

Click 'Apply Now' below. If you have any questions, please contact Samantha Cucuzza (Head of Workplace Health & Safety), Samantha.Cucuzza@yooralla.com.au or HR at hr@yooralla.com.au. 

At Yooralla, you’ll work at Victoria’s most established and recognised for purpose disability service provider with more than 100 years of experience offering high quality support services to people with disability. We work in partnership with adults and children, their families and carers to enable them to live the lives they choose.  

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. We strongly encourage people with disability, LGBTQIA+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply. 

Find out more about our work culture and what we do.

We encourage applications from people with lived experience of disability. You'll receive adjustments and support throughout the whole process — from the application stage to starting in the workplace. If you require the position description in a different format or any accommodation or assistance during the application and interview stages please contact the person listed on the ad or alternatively email hr@yooralla.com.au or phone 9666 4501.