Overview

  • Great opportunity to join a newly focussed Safety and Wellbeing team
  • Provide the thought leadership and advice, research best practice
  • Benchmark and evaluate, develop and review – lead and inspire

Our client is seeking an experienced and qualified Senior Advisor to initiate a new focus on Wellness and Safety within their organisation

The company

Our client is a national (government) organisation with an extremely large number of employees and growing.

With a high risk profile and already focussed on critical risk, there is a real need to ensure all systems and procedures (including Wellness) are aligned and integrated into all core operational activities.

The role

The purpose of this position is to provide support to the National Manager – Wellness and Safety, as well as the leadership team, in order to build an effective function that will provide direction, benchmarking and evaluation, industry best practice, as well as solid advice, analytics and thought leadership.

This is a truly exciting time to be at the forefront of Safety and Wellness, working hard to integrate systems throughout a complex organisation, utilising strong engagement and influencing skills, working within a team who want to make a difference.

Assist to deliver a more effective, enabling service, building a high performing safety and wellness culture – drive a sustainable focus on prevention through innovation, understanding and capability throughout the organisation.

Duties

  • Promote consistency and excellence in all Wellness and Safety systems, policies and procedures
  • Analyse, research and identify best practice initiatives
  • This is your chance to; Solve, Innovate and Deliver
  • Support employee psychological and emotional wellbeing
  • Drive the focus on prevention
  • Be completely solution orientated
  • Assist to deliver, enable and build a high performing safety and wellness culture

Skills and experience

  • Relevant tertiary qualification (Health and Safety preferred)
  • Robust Wellness and Safety experience within a complex and high risk organisation
  • Excellent analytical and research skillset in order to provide innovative best practice initiatives
  • Influential and superb communication skillset – both verbal and written
  • Proven ability in building robust relationships
  • Experience working within a continuous improvement environment
  • Considered a respected contributor to Wellness and Safety within the workplace
  • You will be an influential, energetic, dynamic safety and wellbeing subject matter expert

Apply

If you meet the above criteria, we welcome your application including your CV and cover letter in Word format via apply button.

Applications are welcomed from NZ Citizens or those with a Residency or current Work Visa in place.

Candidates must meet the immigration eligibility criteria to apply for this role – we welcome applications from returning Kiwis and those with the right to work.

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All applications will be acknowledged electronically in the first instance. If you have any questions, please call Suzanne Peden on 09 424 8367 quoting reference #2858.