COMPLETE WHS Business Partner - NSW St Vincent's Private Hospital - Sydney

Job Description:

The role:
This rewarding opportunity as a Workplace Health and Safety Business Partner will see you join a dynamic HR team at St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney located in Darlinghurst. The WHS Business Partner collaborates with a diverse range of stakeholders to ensure workplace, health and safety practices embed a strong safety culture, encourage positive safety behaviours and support delivery of organisational objectives. 

Our benefits:

• Salary packaging of up to $15,900 per FBT year (pay less tax and increase your take home pay), with increased benefits for full-time employees such as reduction to rent or mortgage payments, vehicle leasing and a meal entertainment card up to $2,600 a year

• Generous wellbeing discounts including gym memberships through Fitness Passport, private health insurance and our on-site pharmacy

• Attractive reward and recognition program

• Options to purchase additional leave in support of work life balance

• Convenient location close to cafes, restaurants and public transport

• Opportunity to join our workplace giving program, Give4Good

You will join a high performing team and a workplace with relationships built on mutual trust and respect. We value our staff and offer professional advancement in a respectful, collaborative and learning environment.

Your skills and experience:

Reporting directly to the Human Resources Manager, you will be responsible for providing advice, support and coaching on all workplace, health and safety related matters. This role will be working at both the strategic level, but also operationally in the implementation of health and safety initiatives and programs across St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney. You will have:

• At least 3 years’ experience in a similar position

• Relevant tertiary qualifications in Workplace Health and Safety or a related discipline

• Strong knowledge of contemporary WHS legislation, regulations and Australian standards

• Experience in driving a safety culture by leading and mentoring teams to develop safety leadership skills and behaviours

• A great deal of autonomy as well as being able to work collaboratively within a team

The Company:
St Vincent’s Private Hospital Sydney is one of Australia’s leading private hospitals, located in Darlinghurst. Our team of expert surgeons, nurses and allied health professionals deliver outstanding care, surgery and rehabilitation across a range of highly specialised surgical and medical services supported by several distinguished research institutes.

Our requirements:
Criminal record and child protection checks will be conducted and will form part of the selection criteria.

SVPHS has a duty of care under work health and safety legislation to eliminate and/or control the risk of transmission of vaccine preventable diseases (VPD) in healthcare settings. You are therefore required to comply with the SVHA Staff Health Screening Immunisation Policy, which, depending on the role you perform in the organisation will require you to undergo mandatory immunisations/vaccinations (including COVID-19 and flu vaccinations).

Apply now!
If this is the ideal role for you, apply today! The job ad will close at X on X.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity, ethical practices, the principles of cultural diversity and promote a smoke free work environment.

St Vincent's Health Australia is committed to reconciliation and encourages Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander people to apply for all advertised positions. For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au.

Any questions?
If you would like to confidentially discuss this opportunity, please contact Roisin McGuirk via roisin.mcguirk@svha.org.au or Steve Ralphs HR Manager on 0436 351 041

Position Description and Critical Job Demands Checklist:

Review the following documents:

JR134112_WHS Business Partner PD 2023.pdf

Contact Details:

Steve Ralphs via 0436 351 041

Alternate Contact:

Closing Date:

23 December 2023 11:59pm

Reconciliation Action Plan:

At St Vincent's we acknowledge the importance of creating a work environment that is welcoming, safe, equitable and inclusive for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Employees. As part of our Commitment to Reconciliation and Closing the Gap in employment related outcomes, we encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples.

For further information, visit https://www.svha.org.au/about-us/reconciliation or get in contact at indigenouscareers@svha.org.au

View Reconciliation Action Plan

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