Health & Safety Business Partner | Healthcare

Health and Safety Business Partner - Community Health
Inner Melbourne - Some Hybrid opportunity
$95-105K + Super + NFP Salary packaging
Part-time or Full-time opportunity

Step into a newly refreshed leadership-level Health & Safety role in one of Victoria's most dynamic community environments. This is more than a compliance position - it's your chance to drive strategic safety culture in a progressive organisation delivering essential healthcare and social support services across diverse, high-needs communities.

You'll be the go-to expert, leading proactive WHS initiatives and partnering with senior stakeholders across medical, outreach, and community-based programs - including work that intersects with public health, justice, and harm reduction. This role is ideal for a seasoned HSE leader ready to influence organisational culture and system-wide safety performance.

THE ROLE

• Partner with executive and frontline leaders to uplift WHS systems, culture, and strategic capability
• Champion OHS and occupational violence prevention across healthcare and high-risk service settings
• Lead investigations, WHS audits, and incident response with a people-centred lens
• Support complex injury management and return-to-work strategies alongside People & Culture
• Build a tailored WHS management system that reflects legal and community realities
• Leading the coordination and continuous improvement of OHS and Occupational Violence & Aggression (OVA) strategies across all service areas.

SKILLS/EXPERIENCE

• Formal OHS qualifications and deep experience in community health, justice or complex service environments
• Proven success influencing organisational safety culture and leading WHS strategy
• A hands-on approach to risk, return-to-work and injury management
• Strong stakeholder communication and the ability to coach managers across levels
• An appetite to drive change, reduce risk, and make a social impact
• Current Working With Children Check, National Police Check, Driver's Licence

BENEFITS/PERKS

• $95-105K + Super + NFP Salary packaging
• Senior-level autonomy with PART or FULL-time flexibility if desired.
• Immediate access to unique work environments that challenge and reward
• Be part of a mission-driven, multicultural and community-grounded workforce
• Salary aligned to experience (HS3-5) under the Community Health EBA + salary packaging

How to apply:

If interested, please contact me;

Angus Hayes

[email protected]

TRADEWIND AUSTRALIA AND THE ORGANISATIONS WE REPRESENT ARE PROUD TO BE EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES EMPLOYERS.

*The Employer considers gender a genuine occupational qualification for this position under Section 27 (2), (c), (e) and (g) of the Equal Opportunity Act 1984 and so we ask that only female/male applicants apply

*Tradewind considers that being of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander descent is a genuine occupational requirement as outlined in section 25 of the Anti-Discrimination Act (1991) and permitted as a 'special measure' under section 8 of the Racial Discrimination Act 1975 (Cth) and by articles 1(4) and 2(2) of the International Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Racial Discrimination.