Senior Emergency Management Officer
Child and Adolescent Health Service
Date: 1 day ago
City: Nedlands, Western Australia
Contract type: Full time
Be part of a small, expert team leading emergency preparedness across WA’s specialist paediatric health service.
Collaborate across hospital and community health environments.
Build your emergency management expertise in a supportive and dynamic workplace.
CRVCID No. 679351
This is a Recruitment Pool for Permanent Part Time, Permanent Full Time, Fixed Term Part Time and Fixed Term Full Time, with the possibility of extension (s) and/or permanency.
We Currently Have Two Vacancies Within Our Team
Position Profile
The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is seeking Senior Emergency Management Officers to join our Emergency Management Unit (EMU). This is an exciting opportunity to work on meaningful, high-impact projects that safeguard patients, families, and staff across our health service.
In this role, you will engage with and support stakeholders across all levels of our organisation, focusing on emergency preparedness, response coordination, and continuity planning, and apply your operational and legislative knowledge of incident coordination, emergency planning, and continuity frameworks, fire safety, emergency codes, and infrastructure failure response.
Key Responsibilities Include
About Our Team
The Emergency Management Unit play a critical role in supporting CAHS, including Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) specialist paediatric services, and associated community-based services across the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS). We are committed to ensuring the safety, continuity, and resilience of care for staff, and young people—including vulnerable patients—families, and visitors, in alignment National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards.
Our core responsibility is to build and maintain the organisation’s capacity to effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from a broad range of incidents and disruptions. These include clinical emergencies, infrastructure failures, public health threats such as pandemics, and external events like natural disasters.
A key focus of our work is the delivery of emergency management training across the organisation. This includes the planning and facilitation of simulations, drills, and scenario-based exercises designed to ensure consistent standards of emergency readiness across hospital and community sites. And strengthen our workforce’s ability to respond effectively in critical situations.
How To Apply
We welcome your application via the ‘Apply for Job’ button at the bottom of this page.
Requirements
Your ability to meet the work-related requirements will be assessed throughout the recruitment process. For your written application please provide the following:
For Further Job-Related Information: We encourage you to contact Myles Mulvay on 0438 568 464 or [email protected]
Help in submitting your application: If you experience technical difficulties while applying online, please contact Employee Services on 13 44 77 for immediate assistance during business hours.
Eligibility: Australian citizenship or permanent residency is an essential requirement for applicants to be considered for permanent positions in the public sector.
Other Conditions: WA Health is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of our service. We embrace diversity and strongly encourage applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.
In addition, we are committed to growing our Aboriginal workforce as part of WA Health Aboriginal Workforce Policy. As a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. WA Health policies require applicants to undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. As well as undertaking a criminal record screening and integrity checking, you may also be required to undertake a working with children check (if required for the role) and a pre-employment health assessment. We may ask referees to comment on your integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour. Please note that adverse information does not necessarily disqualify an applicant but will be considered as part of the appointment process.
Suitable applicants will be placed in a pool from which appointments may be made when similar vacancies occur. Appointments may be made from this pool until 22/02/2027.
About CAHS
The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is proud to be the leading service provider for paediatric healthcare in Western Australia, as the State’s only dedicated health service for infants, children and young people. CAHS comprises four service areas: Neonatology, Community Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH).
With over 6500 employees, our services are delivered at PCH and King Edward Memorial Hospitals (KEMH), as well as across a network of more than 160 community clinics across the Perth metropolitan area.
For further information about the benefits of working for CAHS, please click here and for further information regarding CAHS’ services, please click here
CAHS is committed to providing a workplace culture that is driven and shaped by our values of Compassion, Collaboration, Equity, Respect, Excellence and Accountability. During the selection process you may be assessed on your ability to fulfil the responsibilities of this position in accordance with the values.
For further information about the benefits of working for CAHS, please click here and for further information regarding CAHS’ services, please click here
For Assistance including any adjustment needed to accommodate a disability and confidential enquiries – please contact the Strategic Talent Acquisition Recruitment Team (START) service via email: [email protected]
Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions on, or after, 4:00pm on the closing date will not be accepted.
LATE OR EMAIL APPLICATIONS CAN NOT BE CONSIDERED.
Collaborate across hospital and community health environments.
Build your emergency management expertise in a supportive and dynamic workplace.
CRVCID No. 679351
This is a Recruitment Pool for Permanent Part Time, Permanent Full Time, Fixed Term Part Time and Fixed Term Full Time, with the possibility of extension (s) and/or permanency.
We Currently Have Two Vacancies Within Our Team
- Based at Perth Children’s Hospital: Full time, fixed term, supporting return-to-work backfill, including whole-facility emergency management across clinical, non-clinical, and critical infrastructure areas.
- Community focused position: Full-time, fixed term, supporting emergency management activities across multiple community sites, based at PCH and requiring occasional travel.
Position Profile
The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is seeking Senior Emergency Management Officers to join our Emergency Management Unit (EMU). This is an exciting opportunity to work on meaningful, high-impact projects that safeguard patients, families, and staff across our health service.
In this role, you will engage with and support stakeholders across all levels of our organisation, focusing on emergency preparedness, response coordination, and continuity planning, and apply your operational and legislative knowledge of incident coordination, emergency planning, and continuity frameworks, fire safety, emergency codes, and infrastructure failure response.
Key Responsibilities Include
- Deliver and coordinate emergency training exercises (Code Yellow, Code Orange, helipad and fire warden walkthroughs, evacuation drills).
- Lead and facilitate business continuity planning and the review of service-specific emergency response protocols.
- Provide high-level advice and support during emergency events, working alongside the Incident Management Team (IMT) and Hospital Clinical Managers (HCMs).
- Contribute to CAHS compliance with Standard 1 of the National Safety and Quality Health Service (NSQHS) Standards.
- Support data management, reporting, post-incident reviews, and quality improvement activities.
About Our Team
The Emergency Management Unit play a critical role in supporting CAHS, including Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH) specialist paediatric services, and associated community-based services across the Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS). We are committed to ensuring the safety, continuity, and resilience of care for staff, and young people—including vulnerable patients—families, and visitors, in alignment National Safety & Quality Health Service Standards.
Our core responsibility is to build and maintain the organisation’s capacity to effectively prepare for, respond to, and recover from a broad range of incidents and disruptions. These include clinical emergencies, infrastructure failures, public health threats such as pandemics, and external events like natural disasters.
A key focus of our work is the delivery of emergency management training across the organisation. This includes the planning and facilitation of simulations, drills, and scenario-based exercises designed to ensure consistent standards of emergency readiness across hospital and community sites. And strengthen our workforce’s ability to respond effectively in critical situations.
How To Apply
We welcome your application via the ‘Apply for Job’ button at the bottom of this page.
Requirements
Your ability to meet the work-related requirements will be assessed throughout the recruitment process. For your written application please provide the following:
- A statement addressing the selection criteria in no more than 2-3 pages.
- A current resume which summarises your experience and how you are able to meet the position requirements.
- Evidence of a Tertiary qualification in Occupational Therapy or Physiotherapy and eligible for registration by the relevant Board of Australia, or Tertiary qualification in Prosthetics and Orthotics and eligible for full membership of the Australian Orthotic Prosthetic Association (AOPA), or Tertiary qualification in Social Work and eligible for full membership of the Australian Association of Social Workers or the Society of Professional Social Workers, or Tertiary qualification in Speech Pathology and eligible for full membership of Speech Pathology Australia (SPA).
For Further Job-Related Information: We encourage you to contact Myles Mulvay on 0438 568 464 or [email protected]
Help in submitting your application: If you experience technical difficulties while applying online, please contact Employee Services on 13 44 77 for immediate assistance during business hours.
Eligibility: Australian citizenship or permanent residency is an essential requirement for applicants to be considered for permanent positions in the public sector.
Other Conditions: WA Health is committed to eliminating all forms of discrimination in the provision of our service. We embrace diversity and strongly encourage applications from people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.
In addition, we are committed to growing our Aboriginal workforce as part of WA Health Aboriginal Workforce Policy. As a measure to achieve equality, Section 51 of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 applies to this position and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are encouraged to apply.
WA Health engages staff in positions of trust and responsibility. WA Health policies require applicants to undertake a criminal records screening and integrity checking as part of the appointment process. As well as undertaking a criminal record screening and integrity checking, you may also be required to undertake a working with children check (if required for the role) and a pre-employment health assessment. We may ask referees to comment on your integrity and past demonstration of ethical behaviour. Please note that adverse information does not necessarily disqualify an applicant but will be considered as part of the appointment process.
Suitable applicants will be placed in a pool from which appointments may be made when similar vacancies occur. Appointments may be made from this pool until 22/02/2027.
About CAHS
The Child and Adolescent Health Service (CAHS) is proud to be the leading service provider for paediatric healthcare in Western Australia, as the State’s only dedicated health service for infants, children and young people. CAHS comprises four service areas: Neonatology, Community Health, Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) and Perth Children’s Hospital (PCH).
With over 6500 employees, our services are delivered at PCH and King Edward Memorial Hospitals (KEMH), as well as across a network of more than 160 community clinics across the Perth metropolitan area.
For further information about the benefits of working for CAHS, please click here and for further information regarding CAHS’ services, please click here
CAHS is committed to providing a workplace culture that is driven and shaped by our values of Compassion, Collaboration, Equity, Respect, Excellence and Accountability. During the selection process you may be assessed on your ability to fulfil the responsibilities of this position in accordance with the values.
For further information about the benefits of working for CAHS, please click here and for further information regarding CAHS’ services, please click here
For Assistance including any adjustment needed to accommodate a disability and confidential enquiries – please contact the Strategic Talent Acquisition Recruitment Team (START) service via email: [email protected]
Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions on, or after, 4:00pm on the closing date will not be accepted.
LATE OR EMAIL APPLICATIONS CAN NOT BE CONSIDERED.
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