Occupational Health and Safety Manager, (Full time) Human Resource, Te Whatu Ora at Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Counties Manukau, Auckland

Mō tēnei tūranga mahi | About this role

A unique role in a unique environment and opportunity to work in a forward thinking environment.

We are seeking an experienced individual to lead the Occupational Health and Safety team to fulfil their duties as H&S SMEs as prescribed in the HSWA and other regulations and standards including utilising a detailed short and long term plan of activities. This is a full time position working Monday to Friday and based at Middlemore Hospital.

Reporting to the Group Occupational Health and Safety Manager, you will be expected to proactively advise and guide the CM Health teams and leaders, on all HSWA requirements to ensure compliance to the relevant legislation, regulations and standards whist building a strong culture in health and safety management. Drive a risk aware culture by providing support and guidance to the organisation to ensure risk management is top of mind and that to provide great support to the wider Te Whatu Ora Health team also means we provide a great service to our patients and wider Counties Manukau community.

You will drive the consultation and engagement of health and safety with the required stakeholders including HSRs and contracting partners and assist the Risk and Assurance Manager to carry out risk training and guidance support to managers across the organisation on H&S and HR risks and risk processes. Lead and participate in the management of H&S incidents and investigations where potential and actual critical H&S risks have been identified.

To be suitable for this role you need to have;

• Tertiary qualification relevant to H&S Risk
• Health, Safety, Risk professional experience
• 5 years’ post qualification experience
• Experience developing a culture of innovation, performance, transparency and customer-centric service.
• Experience in delivering sustainable system and process performance improvement
• Experience in delivering change and performance with and through teams, by engaging them in the directions and delivery of plans, establishing clear work priorities, delegating effectively, ensuring capability to deliver, monitoring performance, and providing timely, regular feedback.

If you are looking for a worthwhile challenge and want to work in an effective team and you share the Counties Manukau District team values of Excellent, Valuing Everyone, Kind, and Together and want to join us on a journey of achieving health equity for our community, apply now!

To make an application please apply online on https://careers.countiesmanukau.health.nz/working-here/ or to review the position description please “click here”. For more information please contact Tangi Namulauulu in the Recruitment Centre on email tangi.namulauulu@middlemore.co.nz

Position Number: CMH202310623

Closing Date: 26th March 2023

Our highest priority is the safety and welfare of our patients and our people.  We have strict Health & Safety measures to keep our people safe. All new employees are required to be fully vaccinated against COVID-19 under the COVID-19 Public Health Response (Vaccinations) Order 2021.

At Counties Manukau Health people and their lives matter to us. We are a values based and inclusive organisation that is committed to delivering the best health outcomes for our community. To help us achieve this we need a workforce that reflects the population we serve. We strongly encourage applications from all backgrounds who share our values and have a passion to work in our community and would greatly value seeing applicants from our Maaori and Pacific communities. We are also committed to our Disability Strategy, which focuses on people with disabilities; they are our patients, whaanau, community and our staff - all carefully considered in our action plan. Together we will improve the accessibility needs for everyone who has a disability. Our values are Valuing Everyone- Whakawhanaungatanga , Kind –Manaakitanga, Together –Kotahitanga, Excellent- Rangatiratanga. If these are your values too, then join us today.