'Kotahi anō te kaupapa, ko te oranga o te iwi' – ‘There is only one purpose to our work: the wellness and wellbeing of our people.
Led from our Chief Executive, we're embedding a culture of continuous improvement and capability across our unique operating environment at Ara Poutama. Nowhere else is quite the same – we have over 10,000 people at 151 sites across Aotearoa with over 80% who work directly with offenders. We also deliver instructional and rehabilitation programmes in high-risk industries, such as construction, engineering, construction, and agriculture – it's a diverse, interesting and complex portfolio to manage safety across.
Mō te tūnga | About the role
The regional Health and Safety Advisor provides health and safety advice and support to sites, leaders and teams within our Central Region. Your purpose in this role is to support these teams to improve their health and safety performance and ensure that health and safety become core considerations throughout their business-as-usual ways of working. This involves supporting sites, teams and projects to effectively apply a range of health and safety policies, procedures and protocols, supporting and guiding the completion of H&S Learning Reviews/investigations, undertaking critical risk and system assurance checks across teams and projects, and providing technically accurate and constructive advice to improve the H&S performance of business areas.
Full time fixed term opportunity (from July 2020 to July 2021). Hamilton based with regional travel required.
Ngā pūkenga e kimi ana mātou | Skills we look for
To be successful, we are looking for evidence of the following key skills and experience in your application:
A relevant tertiary qualification in health and safety;
Experience in a similar role providing health and safety advice and guidance, ideally across large and complex organisations;
Demonstrated understanding of health and safety legislation;
Proven knowledge and understanding of the Incident Cause Analysis Method (ICAM);
Experience in delivering activities that improve awareness, knowledge and application of health and safety policies, procedures and protocols;
Excellent collaboration skills with an ability to develop strong relationships to drive culture change with key stakeholders;
Good technical experience, ideally with a background in a high-risk industry; and
Knowledge of applied best practice in health and safety business partnering, including health and safety assurance and Learning Review/investigation activities.
Tono ināianei | Apply now
To apply, submit your CV and a tailored cover letter (PDF) describing your motivation for applying as well as highlighting your relevant skills, experience and personal qualities essential to this role.
Applications will close 9pm on Sunday 24 May. Candidates shortlisted to interview will be invited to take part in a pre-interview competency assessment and video screening. Interviews will take place via video conference.
The salary range for this role is $75,829 to $107,052. Appointments are based on skills and experience relevant to the role.
Should you apply and be interviewed for this role and you are not the successful candidate, your application can be considered for other current health and safety vacancies at the same or lower level if the essential criteria are the same or closely aligned.
For reporting and transparency, it is important that all applications are submitted through our careers site. If you want to find out more about a career with us, visit careers.corrections.govt.nz or email our team at recruitment@corrections.govt.nz
