Step into a fulfilling role at the Department of Education, prioritising the health, safety, and wellbeing of our team and students. As a Workplace Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Coordinator in Gladstone Central Queensland, you'll take on a pivotal role. Alongside supporting Health and Safety Advisors and staff across three schools, you'll also spearhead the local implementation of the department’s Health, Safety, and Wellbeing Management System (HSWMS). Your responsibilities include managing and continuously enhancing the system to ensure compliance with legislation and industry best practices.

This full-time temporary position, running until December 13, 2024, offers a vibrant workplace and the satisfaction of contributing to safer, healthier educational settings. Don't miss out—apply now and join us in fostering safer learning environments for all!

Job details

About the Department:

The Department of Education are dedicated to building an inclusive and diverse workforce that reflects the community and schools we support by treating everyone with respect and dignity. This starts with recruitment and selection. The methods of assessing suitability in the recruitment process may vary. This includes making reasonable adjustments to support applicants at all stages of the process and employee lifecycle.

Your role:

The Workplace Health, Safety and Wellbeing Coordinator reports to the base school Principal for operational and administrative matters and to the Principal Project Consultant, Organisational Safety and Wellbeing in Central Office, for coaching and support on all professional practice matters.

School clusters are located:

• Central Queensland Region – (Gladstone)
• Secondary school
• Special School
• State School

Responsibilities include:

• Provide leadership, guidance and advice regarding health, safety and wellbeing.
• Communicate, consult and collaborate with school staff, regional health, safety and wellbeing staff and the business unit, regarding the implementation of the department's HSWMS and promotion of health, safety and wellbeing initiatives.
• Facilitate and assist in:
  • Incident reporting, review, investigation and close out.
  • Hazard identification and risk assessment(s) for nominated school(s), to ensure the safety of staff, students, contractors and visitors.
  • The development or refinement of a school-based risk register.
  • The school to hold Health, Safety and Wellbeing Committee meetings every term and undertake associated tasks and actions, ensuring updates on relevant activities and data trends are provided including supporting school employees to undertake relevant actions.
  • Identifying, making early referrals and coordinating early intervention services for staff with identified health concerns that may be impacting their fitness for work.
  • The school's compliance with regulatory health, safety and wellbeing matters such as emergency response plans.
  • The development and monitoring of staff wellbeing action plans and initiatives.
  • School leaders to ensure the required health, safety and wellbeing roles are in place within the school and that this information is kept current on site and within the MyHR WHS module.
  • Collation, analysis and reporting of local health, safety and wellbeing data and statistics.
• Partner with health, safety and wellbeing staff in schools to facilitate and assist in the completion of the annual safety assessment.
• Facilitate attendance and/or assist in the identification, preparation and delivery of health, safety and wellbeing training and awareness for school employees.  This includes inductions, awareness packages and supporting the principal to ensure mandatory training is undertaken.
• Provide advice and support on ensuring health, safety and wellbeing records are accurate and current and that confidential information is only circulated as permissible and stored in a secure location to maintain privacy.
• Prepare correspondence, reports and submissions related to health, safety and wellbeing.

Please refer to the attached role description for any mandatory requirements for this position.

Interested? To Apply: 

• Attach a brief resume including contact details for 2 referees (referees should have an understanding of your relevant work history)
• Attach a 2-page written statement in response to the attached role description.

We welcome all applicants to share any support needed to ensure our recruitment process is inclusive. 

Applications remain current for 12 months from the closing date and may be considered for appointment to identical or similar vacancies within the Department. 

Applications from recruitment agencies will not be accepted. 

When working in regulated employment an employee must have a current Working with Children Clearance (blue card) issued by Blue Card Services.

Salary rate shown is reflective of full-time (1.0 FTE). 

The Department of Education is a family inclusive workplace. Click here to find out more about our Inclusion and Diversity strategies. 

Further information

We are committed to building inclusive cultures in the Queensland public sector that respect and promote human rights and diversity.

For a full list of the position responsibilities and mandatory requirements, please ensure you download the attached role description and candidate information fact sheet and follow the instructions.

Documents

Before applying for this vacancy please ensure you read the documents below.

• Candidate Information Fact Sheet (PDF, 728KB)
  Information Package for Applicants
  
  CO554476_24T - Role Description (PDF, 185KB)
  Role Description