Advisor Health, Safety and Wellbeing – New Zealand Government – Wellington City, Wellington

This is a great opportunity for an entry-level health and safety professional to start making their mark and develop their HSW skills and experience. This opportunity is particularly exciting because the successful applicant will be involved in the implementation of Haerenga ki te Ora: The Ministry’s newly developed Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) Strategy, and also be part of a unified effort to ensure the way we manage the health, safety and wellbeing continually improves.

The Ministry is also undertaking a large programme of work to protect, empower and care for the psychosocial wellbeing of our people and this role will play a part in supporting this.

Mō tō mātou rōpū – About our team:

The Health, Safety and Wellbeing Team sits within our busy Operations Team (which also includes our Facilities and Properties Team). The team is inwards facing and supports the work activities of all Ministry workers. The Team prides itself in working collaboratively, and in proactively engaging with the rest of the Ministry to provide solution-orientated support.

To further strengthen the Team, we are looking for a talented individual to take up the role of Advisor Health, Safety and Wellbeing, reporting directly to the Group Manager, Operations.

It is an exciting time for the Team as we support the Ministry to embark on a number of important initiatives and programmes of work in order to further strengthen the pillars of the recently developed Health, Safety and Wellbeing Strategy. This includes strengthening its approach to providing HSW support services across the business in an organised, proactive and engaging way.

Te whainga poto o tēnei tūranga – What is the purpose of this position?

This role is responsible for providing support to the General Manager Operations and the rest of the HSW Team by maintaining familiarity with the way health, safety and wellbeing is managed at the Ministry, acting as the first point of contact to the business for HSW enquiries and notifications and taking proactive measures to support the business to operate according to the health and safety management system.

You will be the person who receives HSW-related enquiries and notifications from Ministry managers and workers. You will be responsible for responding to these in a timely and positive way and escalating issues to other HSW Team members where they cannot be resolved at the Advisor HSW level.

Under the guidance of the Principal Advisor HSW and the Senior Advisor HSW, you will also manage the advisory, administrative and co-ordination tasks associated with the implementation of the health and safety management system, including tasks such as drafting HSW communications and updates, drafting forms and templates, organising meetings and workshops and keeping registers on HSW-related information.

You will act as custodian for HSW-related documentation and other information, including, for example, incident data, intranet content, information related to assurance activities and meeting minutes.

Maintaining familiarity with Haerenga ki te Ora and the associated workstreams, will be a key part of your role so that you can take a proactive approach to supporting the HSW Team to implement these workstreams.

You will also have opportunities to further develop your HSW skills and experience through leading (or playing a key role in) minor projects and programmes related to the workstreams, under the direction and guidance of the Principal Advisor HSW and the Senior Advisor HSW.

You will be an integral member of the HSW Team, and wider Operations Team, and will work in collaboration with them to ensure the support given to the Ministry is integrated, is sufficiently focussed across the breadth of our strategic pillars, and ultimately helps us achieve the strategic outcomes we want. The salar range for this position is $66,000 – $88,000 and will be offered to align with skills and experience.

Ngā Pūkenga me ngā Wheako – Skills & Experience:
To be successful in this role, you will have:

• A recognised qualification in Occupational Health and Safety, or related discipline, and at least 2 years in a similar role
• Experience actively participating in projects, programmes or initiatives related to health, safety and/or wellbeing
• Highly developed organisation skills, including the ability to multi-task, plan activities in a timely way and foresee the needs of various parties involved in these activities
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the ability to foster good stakeholder relationships and engage with a range of people in a positive and solution-orientation way
• Ability to effectively use a variety of commonly used computer software programmes, and an aptitude for learning new software as required
• While this role is inward facing (i.e. Ministry only), an awareness of the wider health and government sectors is important.

The Ministry of Health is the kaitiaki of the health and disability system in New Zealand. We are responsible for providing active stewardship and leadership across the nations health and disability system. We ensure the system provides people with the highest levels of care, regardless of who they are or where they live.

You will find a copy of the Position Description attached or online at careers.health.govt.nz. Please click ‘Apply for this Job’ to upload your CV and cover letter.

For further information regarding the role, please email lisa.vandermespel@health.govt.nz quoting reference number MOH/1636365

Applications for this role close at 5pm on 19 June 2022,

We encourage diversity and inclusion at the Ministry of Health and are committed to equal opportunity in all our employment policies and procedures. In particular, we want to ensure accessibility needs are well supported, so the recruitment process is fair and equitable for all. Therefore, please let us know if there is any support, we can provide to ensure the recruitment process is fully accessible to you. You can contact us at recruitment@health.govt.nz or on +64 4 466 5318 if you would like to discuss any accessibility needs you may have.