Work Health & Safety Advisor

Join one of Victoria's leading not for profits and be a part of something big!

Competitive Salary + Tax reducing salary package

Full time, ongoing role | Location: Box Hill (Hybrid model)

About St Vincent de Paul Society

For more than 170 years we have been providing practical and compassionate support to people across Victoria whose daily struggles can include putting food on the table, paying essential utilities and ensuring their children remain at school to obtain an education.

Our organisation provides many services and programs, including soup vans, education programs, home visitation programs and VincentCare Victoria (VCV), which assist some of Victoria’s most vulnerable communities, such as people experiencing homelessness, the housing crisis and family violence, and the elderly.

A little bit about the role

We’re seeking a Work Health & Safety Advisor to provide operational support and advice in developing, implementing and managing our work health and safety (WHS) system and promoting a safe workplace culture. This role also focuses on preventing workplace accidents and injuries through timely guidance to employees, volunteers and management. Working collaboratively with staff, HR, WorkSafe and the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority, you’ll coordinate and support the management of work and non-work-related injuries to ensure regulatory compliance and timely outcomes.

A key focus is achieving safe and sustainable return-to-work outcomes, minimising the impact on insurance premiums and driving continuous improvement in WHS performance while supporting the implementation of the Society’s WHS Management System and initiatives.

Your responsibilities:

• Support the development and implementation of WHS and workers compensation management systems, ensuring compliance with regulatory and organisational requirements and contribute to the creation of WHS resources and education materials for leaders and managers.
• Manage and maintain the incident and hazard reporting system, including conducting WHS site audits and inspections, providing user support and training and ensuring hazards and incidents are effectively reviewed, investigated, escalated and closed out.
• Promote and coordinate effective injury management and return to work processes, ensuring compliance with regulatory requirements and supporting managers, supervisors and workers through training and advice.
• Liaise with internal and external stakeholders to develop, monitor and manage safe and compliant return to work plans and continuously improve related policies, procedures and systems.
• Coordinate and manage workers compensation and volunteer injury claims, ensuring timely submission, regulatory compliance and effective liaison with insurers and the Victorian Managed Insurance Authority.
• Support continuous improvement of the workers compensation claims management system by maintaining accurate records, reporting on cases and developing education and information packages for managers and staff.
• Contribute to and support programs, policies and training initiatives that promote the physical and psychosocial health, safety and wellbeing of employees, volunteers and members.

About you

You’re a motivated and solutions-focused Work Health & Safety professional with a passion for creating safe, supportive and compliant workplaces. You bring strong communication skills, sound technical knowledge and the ability to influence and collaborate across all levels of the organisation.

More specifically you will have:

• A minimum Certificate IV in OHS and Return to Work Coordinator certification (required); with a Diploma in OHS, psychosocial safety qualifications, or Cert IV in Training and Assessment highly regarded.
• Proven experience in operational Work Health & Safety, including safety hazard and risk management.
• Demonstrated expertise in claims, injury and Return to Work management within the Victorian workers compensation scheme.
• Experience with Victorian Managed Insurance Authority (desirable)
• Exposure to, or experience in the development of initiatives and or programs promoting organisational psychosocial safety
• Exposure to ISO 45001 and ISO 45003 occupational health and safety management systems
• Ability to interpret and apply Workers Compensation legislative standards and guidelines as they apply to organisational claims management and rehabilitation initiatives.
• Demonstrated involvement in issues management and investigations, including the implementation of solutions to resolve conflict
• Evidence of contribution to the development and implementation of best practice WHS management systems
• Strong communication and stakeholder engagement skills, with the ability to build rapport, influence and collaborate effectively.
• Excellent organisational and problem-solving skills, with attention to detail and the ability to meet deadlines.

Why work for us?  We offer

• Salary packaging, sometimes called salary sacrificing is a huge attraction here! It is a popular way of providing employees in the community sector with tax benefits over and above their salary. It means the real value of a salary package can be significantly higher than the nominal value.
• We make an incredible difference in the lives of over 300,000 people every year.
• We believe in families, so we like to provide a family-friendly environment in which to work.
• We offer a place where you know you are contributing to a firm committed to helping others. We are passionate about #SocialJustice.
• Hybrid working model.

Where good happens #Goodworks

If this opportunity sounds perfect to you and you meet our essential requirements, we can’t wait to hear from you! Please send us your updated CV and a cover letter that tells us a little more about you and your suitability for the role.

Please click here for a copy of the Position Description.

Applications close: 19^th November 2025 at 12.00 am.

Please note: Candidates may be reviewed and progressed as applications are received, rather than after the advertised closing date. SVDP reserves the right to close the advertisement at any time. We encourage you to submit your application as soon as possible to ensure due consideration is given to your suitability.

Prior to any commencement to employment, pre-employment checks must be completed. This will include reference checking, a national criminal history and right to work check and a working with children check.

St Vincent de Paul Society Victoria is proactive in supporting child safety; we value diversity and aim to build an inclusive environment that champions, embraces and respects differences; we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and people of all abilities, cultures, sexual orientations, and gender identities and expressions.

No agencies please.