Applications close, 11:55pm Sunday 21 September 2025

An exciting opportunity exists for an experienced safety professional to lead the Department of Justice’s commitment to creating safer place to work every day.

With a strong commitment to safety, the Department of Justice is dedicated to fostering a proactive safety culture and strives for best practice beyond safety compliance, in a complex and dynamic work environment.

Reporting to the Assistant Director, Safety and Injury Management, HR, you will provide strategic leadership to the Department, by providing strategic direction and development of contemporary safety practices while working closely with the Manager, Injury Management to improve safety outcomes across the Department.

We encourage applications from Indigenous Australians, people living with disability, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, mature age workers and LGBTIQA+ people.

The Department of Justice supports reasonable adjustment requests in any stage of the assessment process to remove barriers and facilitate full participation in all aspects of employment for applicants with disability. If you have individual requirements that need to be accommodated in order to participate in an interview or recruitment activity, please inform the contact listed at the end of this vacancy.

We are a diverse and inclusive workplace and understand the importance of flexible working arrangements. Talk to us about how this could work for you.

Hours per fortnight

73.50 hours per fortnight - flexible options available.

Duties

• Develop and execute the Agency’s WHS Strategy in alignment with legislative requirements and business values and goals and advise executive leadership on WHS risks, performance and improvements.
• Design and maintain WHS policies and procedures that reflect current legislation, industry standards, and best practice and monitor compliance across all Outputs and ensure prompt action on breaches or risks.
• Develop and deliver WHS induction and training programs and ongoing training initiatives and promote employee engagement and safety ownership through communications, campaigns, and workshops. Evaluate training effectiveness and ensure continual improvement.
• Responsibility for implementing, embedding and monitoring the Agency’s work health and safety risk management framework to improve operational processes, programs and mitigation of WHS risks in the Agency, including overseeing the implementation of corrective and preventative actions.
• Develop, implement, facilitate and monitor incident investigation processes, root cause analysis, and corrective action planning ensuring timely reporting and communication of incidents to relevant authorities and internal stakeholders. Review incident trends and develop proactive prevention measures.
• Undertake research and investigations into complex work health and safety matters and prepare correspondence, reports, formal responses, briefing notes and recommendations as appropriate and participate, contribute and represent the unit in internal forums, and the Department in external forums where appropriate
• Lead the WHS team and foster cross-functional collaboration to embed safety into daily operations including internal and external stakeholders, senior management, health and safety committees, wellbeing champions, HSRs, Unions and the State Service Management Office, and work collaboratively with these stakeholders to broker solutions and resolve work health and safety issues.
• The incumbent can expect to be allocated duties, not specifically mentioned in this document, that are within the capacity, qualifications and experience normally expected from persons occupying positions at this classification level.

Desirable Requirements

• Tertiary qualification in Work Health and Safety or related field.
• Proven experience delivering WHS programs, and safety leadership within high-compliance, complex operational environments or high-risk industry.
• Strong knowledge of WHS legislation and regulations and WHS risk frameworks applicable to the Tasmanian State Service.
• Certification in incident investigation, risk management, or safety auditing preferred.
• Current Driver’s Licence.

Pre-employment Checks

The Head of State Service has determined that the person nominated for this vacancy is to satisfy a pre-employment check before taking up the appointment, promotion or transfer.

The following checks are to be conducted:

1. Pre-employment (National Police Record) checks for: Arson and fire setting, violent crimes and crimes against the person, sex-related offences, drug and alcohol related offences, crimes involving dishonesty, deception and/or conspiracy, making false declarations, malicious damage and destruction to property, serious traffic offences, crimes against public order or relating to the Administration of Law and Justice, Executive or the Legislative Power.
2. Disciplinary action in previous employment.
3. Identification check.

Download the Statement of Duties and any Associated Documents

Statement of Duties (356554) Manager Work Health and Safety - Sept2025.docx

Statement of Duties (356554) Manager Work Health and Safety - Sept2025.pdf

Information for applicants (Human Resources).docx

Information for applicants (Human Resources).pdf

How to apply

To apply, please provide a Short Form Application which is a 1-2 page covering letter outlining your experience, skills and knowledge as they relate to the Statement of Duties, and a copy of your current Resumé/CV. We do not require a separate statement addressing the selection criteria.

Please apply online by clicking the 'Apply Now' button.

Refer to the 'Information for Applicants' document for further information. Please note, attachments must be in Microsoft Word or PDF format.

If you are unable to submit your application online, please contact the Department of Justice Recruitment Team on (03) 6166 1435.

For more information

Clodagh Geoghegan
Assistant Director Safety and Injury Management
[email protected]
Phone: (03) 6165 4916

Reasonable Adjustment Queries

People Strategy Team
(03) 6165 7602