Description:
Our discoveries today will lead to better health tomorrow. A key function within the People & Culture team, is the Health, Safety & Wellbeing (HSW) Team. The HSW Team are responsible for leading, advising and coordinating HSW matters and strive to impact a positive safety culture across Garvan. The HSW Team is responsible for workplace health and safety, injury management, wellbeing, compliance and biosafety.
THE OPPORTUNITY
This is an entry level role for someone with a keen passion for safety and willingness to learn! The Health, Safety & Injury Coordinator is a crucial member of the HSW Team, ensuring compliance with relevant legislation, promoting a culture of safety and supporting HSW initiatives and programs. This role requires 4 days on site presence.
Salary: $70,000 + 11.5% super + salary packaging
Employment Type: Full time permanent or part time (4 days a week).
SNAPSHOT OF BENEFITS
- Generous salary packaging to save you income tax on your wages thereby boosting your monthly take home pay (max. $15,900 general expenses + $2,650 meals/accom)
- Ample opportunities for on-going training and development
- Stimulating, diverse and highly international research environment
- Flexible work arrangements e.g. start / finish times
- 18 weeks paid parental leave for both parents including paid superannuation
- A range of additional leave types to meet your personal needs including cultural leave, conference leave, community service and study leave
- Discounted Health Insurance
- Lifestyle discounts with our community partners
WHAT YOU WILL DO
The key responsibilities include:
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Having a strong onsite presence to make a real difference to the HSW culture at Garvan.
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Oversee the injury and workers compensation processes including payroll updates and liaising with all parties as the Return-to-Work
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Support with the implementation of the Health and Safety Management System (HSMS) and keeping documentation up to date and relevant
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Lead Garvan safety consultation mechanisms
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Coordinate safety activities including minute taking, drafting report data, updating the intranet site and safety noticeboards
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Act as the friendly first point of contact for the HSW team, managing queries and escalating within the team where needed
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Coordinate HSW training and arrange external safety training when required
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Support the onboarding process for new Garvan staff ensuring they are made aware of our systems, processes and where to go for help
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Provide day-to-day management and user assistance of HSW systems and databases including Workday, JIRA and Rapid
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Complete cyclical audits and monitoring processes
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Member of emergency management team and first responder for onsite incidents
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Contribute to special projects as required
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Contribute to a positive ‘safety culture’ within Garvan
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Partner with stakeholders (including People Leaders & WHS Committee Members) to actively assess and deliver safety outcomes
ABOUT YOU
This role is a great opportunity for someone looking to start out in workplace health and safety or someone looking to expand their skills.
The key skills and experience required:
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RTW Coordinator Certificate for NSW
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Demonstrated success and previous experience in an administrative role
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Demonstrated commitment to quality in all activities
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Willingness to learn new skills and be flexible in work practices
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Strong customer service ethic and approach
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Excellent written and oral communication
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Competent in the use of key desktop applications (MSWord, Confluence)
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Ability to work cooperatively in a small team
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Previous experience as a RTW Coordinator is highly regarded
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Previous experience in a WHS role or completion of Cert IV in WHS is highly regarded
ABOUT GARVAN
Garvan Institute of Medical Research is an independent Medical Research Institute (MRI) in Sydney, delivering scientific and clinical impact on a global basis and in partnership with organisations that share our vision. We are proud to be one of Australia’s largest and most highly regarded MRI’s.
Our vision is global leadership in discoveries to impact and our enduring purpose is to impact human health, by harnessing information encoded in our genome.
We seek to see our world-class discovery research achieve life-changing impacts, not only for individual patients with rare diseases, but for the many thousands affected by complex, common disease.
Garvan promotes a diverse workplace and is committed to the principles of equity, diversity, inclusion and belonging. We are always looking for culture ‘add’, not culture ‘fit’ and are building diverse teams with great sets of complementary styles and skills to help deliver our important work effectively.
HOW TO APPLY
To apply for this position, please submit your application with a CV and cover letter as one document, stating why you are interested in this role. We are reviewing applications as they are received. If you think you’re the right person for this role, we’d love to hear how your capabilities, achievements and experience set you apart. Only applicants with full working rights in Australia are eligible to apply for this role.