Health and Safety Team Leader at NZ Police, Wellington

New Zealand Police is working with the community to make New Zealanders be safe and feel safe. With over 13,000 staff, we provide policing services 24 hours a day, every day. We operate by land, sea and air, manage over 860,000 emergency calls a year and are always actively preventing crime and crashes.

We’re working towards specific goals and targets that highlight our intent to work collaboratively with iwi and communities, other government sectors and business partners to deliver ‘Our Business’ and achieve long-term change.

Health and Safety Team Leader

• Permanent, Full time
• Salary starting from $94,854
• Location – negotiable
• 2 Positions
• Nationally Advertised Vacancy

About the role

Safer People has a great opportunity for a H&S Team Leader.

This role is responsible for many tasks, including the coordination of 6 Health and Safety Advisors within the Districts, understanding hazards in the work area and aiding our people to eliminate or reduce risk.

Promoting District and Service Centre consistency and excellence in Health and Safety systems and policies in line with national guidelines and provision of advice to continuously improve performance and reduce risk.

The role is able to be undertaken in a number of locations within New Zealand.

Key Accountabilities:

• Leading and enabling a team of advisors to ensure consistent advice and support is provided to our Districts and Service Centres.
• Coordinating and implementing the national roll out of Health and safety projects.
• Identifying hazards and working collaboratively to manage risk to the lowest possible levels.
• Building and maintaining positive relationships across a variety of stakeholders both internal and external.
• Enhancing and contributing to continuously improving Police systems.
• Supporting and enabling our colleagues across a diverse range of Police functions.
• Whakamana: Enhancing the Mana and Waiora (Wellbeing) of others, so that we can all be safe and feel safe.

What you’ll bring

Being part of the Police whānau is about being our best to ensure our communities are safe and feel safe. Our Core Competencies provide a shared understanding of the behaviours, leadership and technical competence required for success at each level of Police. Whilst we are looking for skills, knowledge and experience relevant to the role, we also place high importance on your state of mind, the alignment of your values with ours, your ability to contribute to and build high performing teams, and the way that you lead yourself or others.

Experience and/or qualifications in a Health and Safety or a related field with Team Leader / management experience.

If you are an internal applicant, you must apply internally through the police system. You must provide an alternative contact email address.

This role is set at Team Leader/Manager, this means your key purpose is “to deliver or enable others to deliver Our Business”.

We will ask you questions based on “How we will deliver Our Business – Core Competencies” and the appropriate role level, i.e. Individual Contributor. For more information on Our Core Competencies, please copy and paste this URL:  https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/core-competencies-how-we-will-deliver-our-business.pdf

These questions will be unique and specific to the role, focusing on the aspects the hiring manager believes are most important for that position at the time. For more information on Our Values, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/publications/nzp-our-values.pdf

To view the position description for this role please copy and paste this link into a new browser:

https://www.police.govt.nz/sites/default/files/pd/01-2023/health_and_safety_team_leader.pdf

About us

Our mission is to prevent crime and harm through exceptional policing. Our vision is to be the safest country. Our purpose is to ensure everybody can be safe and feel safe.

Working Flexibly

Your wellbeing inside and outside of work is important to us. We’re open to discussing flexible working options that work for both you and the business.

For more information on the above, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers

How to apply 

Please note: Applications submitted directly through the Government Jobs Website are no longer considered. Please visit our Police Careers page: https://career10.successfactors.com/career?company=nzpolice to apply for this position.

If this position sounds like you, click apply now. You will be required to submit an application form and a CV. Before confirmation of hire, pre-employment checks will be undertaken.

For further information on the application process, please copy and paste this URL: https://www.police.govt.nz/careers

If you have any questions about this vacancy, please contact Team Leader - Jessica.Harris@police.govt.nz

Applications close 5pm Tuesday, 31st January 2023