Work Type: Ongoing - Full-time
Salary: Salary not specified
Grade: Education Support - Level 1, Range 5
Occupation: Education and training
Location: Melbourne - CBD and Inner Metro suburbs
Reference: 1516219
Key Selection Criteria
Key Accountabilities
Direction setting and supervision
Expert program advice and support
Service delivery, quality improvement and integration
Emergency management
Stakeholder Management
Program delivery and digital system use
Required Capabilities
Leadership
Planning and Organising
Influence and Negotiation
Specialist Expertise in OHS
Organisational Awareness
Stakeholder Management
Personal Qualities
Developing Others
Customer Focus
Flexibility
Relationship Building
Qualifications
- Position title: Senior OHS Service Officer, NWVR - Bendigo
- Group: Employee Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion Division, People and Executive Services Group
- Region: Senior OHS Service Officer, NWVR
- Location: Bendigo
- Classification: ES1-5
- Employment Status: Ongoing
- FTE: 1.0
- Salary range: $123,123 - $145,228
Note that Salary shown includes 30 days of additional attendance required, as compared to standard Education Support roles under the Victorian Government Schools Agreement 2022. This means the successful candidate will be entitled to four weeks of annual leave, to be taken during periods as agreed with their manager.
Role Purpose
The Senior OHS Service Officer is a senior role within the regional OHS Services Team, providing high quality advice and OHS and emergency management services to principals, school leaders and employees. Reporting into the OHS Services Manager, the Senior OHS Service Officer partners with schools to complete OHS and emergency management planning tasks, and to provide advice on managing OHS hazards.
This role is a leader in the team providing supervision, guidance and mentoring to other members of the team to ensure the delivery of consistent, hands-on service to schools, to help achieve safer school environments and reduce principals OHS & emergency management workload. The Senior OHS Service Officer role-models customer-focused service and responsiveness and leads in building and maintaining strong relationships with schools, regional offices, contracted external providers and other key areas of the Department.
To view the position description, see:
Position Description Senior OHS Service Officer.docx
Key responsibilities for this role include:
- providing pre-OHS Assurance Assessment services including reviewing and updating the schools OHS Management System documents and processes and completing tasks for the school
- attending OHS Assurance Assessments to assist and support school leaders during the Assessment
- providing post-OHS Assurance Assessment services including working with schools to action and close management actions and completing tasks for the school
- providing services to schools with elements of emergency management planning and supporting schools¿ effective use of the departments digital systems
- providing proactive service to schools in non-OHS Assurance years including regular check-ins with schools and help with managing OHS and emergency management planning tasks
- responding to service requests and supporting with complex OHS matters
- supporting school leaders to effectively use the departments digital OHS system, eduSafe Plus
- coordinating and provide referrals to other department services
- leading the implementation and delivery of targeted and intensive OHS initiatives.
As a leader in the team, the Senior OHS Service Officer:
- provides supervision, guidance and mentoring to OHS Service Officers in their team
- supports the Manager, OHS Services with complex OHS matters and advice and service for schools
- leads in building a positive team culture of responsiveness and customer-focused service for schools.
This role requires travel across the region to undertake school visits, and a current driver's license is mandatory. This role will also involve work within regional office locations, including attending the relevant primary office on a regular basis to connect and collaborate with other staff.
The department is committed to diversity and inclusion and developing a workforce that is representative of the community we service. We value diversity and inclusion in all forms - culture, gender, religion, ethnicity, LGBTIQA+, disability and neurodiversity. Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander candidates are strongly encouraged to apply for roles within the Department. The Department recognises that the provision of safe, respectful and inclusive workplaces is essential to high performance and promotes flexible work and diversity across all schools and Department workplaces. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for staff with disability (see Workplace adjustment guidelines).
Additional support and advice on the recruitment process is available to Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander candidates from the Koorie Outcomes Division (KOD) via [email protected]
Applicants seeking part-time employment are encouraged to apply for any teaching service position and, if they are the successful candidate, request a reduced time fraction. Such requests will be negotiated on a case-by-case basis and will be subject to the operational requirements of the school.
Victorian government schools are child safe environments. Our schools actively promote the safety and wellbeing of all students, and all school staff are committed to protecting students from abuse or harm in the school environment, in accordance with their legal obligations including child safe standards. All schools have a Child Safety Code of Conduct consistent with the department's exemplar available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/child-safe-standards/policy
The department's employees commit to upholding the department's Values: Responsiveness, Integrity, Impartiality, Accountability, Respect, Leadership and Human Rights. The department's Values complement each school's own values and underpin the behaviours the community expects of Victorian public sector employees, including those who work in Victorian Government Schools. Information on the department values is available at:
https://www2.education.vic.gov.au/pal/values-department-vps-school-employees/overview
- Applicants should keep a copy of the position description as it cannot be accessed once the job has closed.
- Candidates are advised that the key selection criteria must be addressed. Visit http://www.careers.vic.gov.au/vacancies/tips-for-applying for guidelines and tips for applying for government positions and addressing key selection criteria.
- The Department of Education is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to diversity. The Department welcomes applicants from a diverse range of backgrounds. It is our policy to provide reasonable adjustments for persons with a disability. For more information about our policy:
- visit http://www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb/Documents/Disability-Reasonable-Adj-in-Workplace or
- contact Corporate People Services on (03) 7022 1089.
o If you need assistance or adjustments to fully participate in the application or interview process for this role, please contact the person listed under `Position Contact¿
- Successful applicants are subject to a satisfactory criminal record check prior to employment. New DE employees are required to meet the cost of the criminal record check.
- A current employee Working with Children Check Victoria is required for this role.
- If appointed from outside DE, successful applicants may be required to complete a pre-employment health declaration.
- A probationary period of up to 3 months may apply for a person appointed to an ongoing position from outside the Public Service or the Teaching Service.
- All DE employees are required to comply with relevant legislation, including legislation regarding the management of Departmental records, the Code of Conduct for Victorian public sector employees and Departmental policies and procedures in the conduct of their employment.
- Standard public service terms and conditions apply. Information about DE's operations and employment conditions can be obtained from the following websites: www.education.vic.gov.au and www.education.vic.gov.au/hrweb.
- To support DE's commitment to its Environmental Management System, DE employees are expected to always act in an environmentally responsible manner.
- A current driver's licence is mandatory for this role.
Role context
Employee Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion Division
The Employee Safety, Wellbeing and Inclusion Division (ESWI Division) vision is to create safe, healthy, respectful and inclusive working environments for Department employees to thrive and succeed.
The ESWI Division performs it functions through teams that span from prevention, through to response and recovery, along with strategy, advice and support, and diversity and inclusion. These teams adopt a holistic approach for supporting the health, safety and wellbeing of our workforce across schools, central and regional offices. This includes Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) and Workers' Compensation policy advice and support, for both physical and mental health and wellbeing, diversity and inclusion initiatives.
The objectives of the ESWI Division are to:
- promote positive wellbeing in working environments
- prevent against known and expected risks to health, safety and wellbeing
- respond swiftly and effectively to manage potential issues as they emerge and prevent injuries
- support employees to recover from injury and illness, and return to work
- promote respectful and inclusive workplaces that upholds equal opportunity and prevents discrimination, bullying, harassment and sexual harassment
- promotes human rights and workforce diversity and inclusion.
OHS Implementation Services Branch
The OHS Implementation Services Branch provides Victorian government schools with systems, resources and expertise to support schools to manage occupational health, safety and wellbeing, with the objective of reducing administrative workload for schools by providing targeted service, support and advice. The Branch includes the operational Statewide OHS Services Team, the OHS Services Statewide Systems and Support Team and the eduSafe Plus Team.
The Statewide OHS Services Team is made up of four regionally based teams that provide on the ground OHS services and support to schools, including:
- support with tasks in preparation for OHS Assurance assessments and with completion of post audit actions
- support with emergency management planning tasks
- proactive regular and risk-based OHS and emergency management planning support through onsite visits
- delivery of targeted OHS initiatives
- responsive support to service requests
- support with building OHS and emergency management planning capability in school leadership.