We are excited to be partnering together as The Safe Step and The Next Step to be recruiting this newly created leadership role that will lead the integration of WHS and ER under one team for this dynamic, forward thinking and complex insurance business. This is a compelling role for a leader who is passionate about workplace safety, employee wellbeing, and driving transformational change.
About the role
Reporting to the General Manager, People & Wellbeing, your role will be to lead and transform this new function and team to provide a consistent, proactive and best practice service offering focussing on care and wellbeing. This position is strategic, advisory and “hands-on” and will be responsible for creating best-in-class workplace safety and employee care frameworks, enhancing safety systems, and building a high-performing team to establish industry best practices in mental health, psychosocial safety & employee relations. Your key responsibilities will include:
- Cross-Functional Leadership: Lead and develop a team of WHS and ER specialists safety leads, fostering cross-functional expertise and providing thought leadership to build well-rounded professionals.
- Drive the Enterprise ER and WHS strategic agenda embedding evidence based, best practice psychological safety and risk management into people systems, policies, processes and frameworks to drive a safe and mentally healthy workplace
- Psychosocial Risk Management: Lead, develop and implement the next phase of the psychosocial safety strategy, staying ahead of evolving regulatory requirements, integrating best practices into operations to position the organisation as a leader in psychosocial risk management externally.
- Safety (WHS) Systems Management: Optimise and implement improvements and best practices with the organisations safety management system to ensure regulatory compliance and operational excellence.
- Enhance ER Systems and Processes - Develop and continually improve on systems and processes in ER and align with WHS to enable consistent case management outcomes
- Board Reporting and Benchmarking: Develop and enhance board reporting by leveraging data, application of benchmarking, and lead / lag indicators to improve insights and decision-making.
Tertiary qualified, you are a “hands on” and future focussed leader who is proactive, impactful and passionate about care & wellbeing and the employee experience and have a background gained from WHS, mental health or related health environments. You have expert knowledge in WHS & ER legislation and mental health, psychosocial risks and wellbeing. Your evidence-based approach will see you producing and analysing impactful, metrics driven Board reports.
Opportunities for growth
This role presents an opportunity to shape the future of psychosocial risk management within this organisation and beyond. The successful candidate will have the chance to position as a thought leader in this space, influencing industry standards and possibly evolving into a Chief Mental Health Officer-type role in the future.
If you have the expertise, vision and passion to take these functions to the next level and would like more information, please call Stephen Coldicutt on 8256 2529 or Julie Amato on 02 8256 2572 quoting reference number 3876948