• 6 months full time fixed term role
• Focus on project to achieve child safety accreditation
• Health & Safety system review implementation

To be a part of St John NSW is to be a part of something bigger - no matter what your job or role. Every day we save lives through first aid. Our first aid products and courses give you the skills, tools, knowledge, and confidence to help in the event of an emergency. 

As a not-for-profit organisation, when you attend a course or buy a product from St John NSW, you're helping to support our community programs including free first aid training for primary school students, leadership development programs for our volunteers, and event health services for local and state community events. Around the world, our humanitarian mission is to prevent and relieve sickness and injury and to act to enhance the health and wellbeing of people of all races and creeds.

About the Role

The Safety Partner will on a fixed term basis provide additional project support to continue to strengthen Health & Safety (H&S) and the achievement of the ChildWise Child Safety accreditation over a 6 month period to demonstrate the commitment of best practice in child safety. 

The role will provide health and safety leadership and support to reduce injuries through:

• Ensuring that the current H&S policies, procedures, safety systems and reporting are reviewed across all of St John NSW
• Completing the identified H&S project initiatives identified in 2020
• Responding and providing advice on safety enquiries and safety matters
• Providing support to the Health & Safety Committee

This role will lead the Child Safety Project to continue to support the safety of our over 900 Cadets by ensuring the following:

• All the 10 Child Safe Standards identified in the project plan are fully implemented within the required time frame
• Organise the Focus Groups and audit requirements for the ChildWise accreditation process
• To implement the outstanding audit requirements

Our Ideal Candidate

• At least 5 years working in a Health and Safety role and/or Child Safety role with solid safety experience 
• Experience in Child Safety and/or Human Resources is desirable
• Understands that safety is more than just systems, procedures and compliance
• Strong written and verbal communication skills to enable effective and appropriate interaction with internal and external stakeholders
• Strong team player who can work autonomously as a specialist role
• Effective organisation and time management skills with the ability to multitask 
• Demonstrates strong customer service and business partnership orientation
• Proven ability to lead, plan and execute projects
• Able to demonstrate empathy with the ethos of the organisation
• Able to work effectively within a commercial and not-for-profit cultural environment

St John Ambulance (NSW) does not appreciate unsolicited calls from recruitment agencies.

St John NSW cares about keeping children and young people safe.  Protecting and promoting the emotional, physical, cultural and spiritual wellbeing of children and young people is central to all aspects of the operations and culture of St John NSW.