43581

Closes: 26 September 2025

Classification: Senior Officer Grade C
Salary: $125,344 - $134,527 plus superannuation
Position No: 43581
Directorate: Health and Community Services
Advertised (Gazettal date): 12 September 2025
Contact Officer: Trent Mylrea on Trent.Mylrea@act.gov.au or (02) 6205 4341

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Details: The Health and Community Services Directorate (HCSD) is seeking a motivated safety and wellbeing professional to join our team as the Assistant Director, Safety and Wellbeing.

Reporting to the Director, Safety and Wellbeing, the role provides high quality and strategic advice on complex workers compensation and non-compensable injuries. This involves working with rehabilitation case managers, workplace rehabilitation providers, directorate managers, and injured workers to achieve strategic return to work outcomes.

The Assistant Director is also required to support the Safety and Wellbeing team with continuous improvement of HCSD's early intervention and wellbeing frameworks. This includes identification of trends based on collection, analysis and reporting of incident, hazard, and risk data, and providing general advice on work health and safety matters. See the position description for further detailed information about the role.

HCSD is an inclusive employer where all people are respected and valued for their contribution. We strongly encourage and welcome applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, People with Disability, people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, veterans, mature age workers, and lesbian, gay, transgender, intersex and queer (LGBTIQ) people.

Eligibility/Other Requirements: Qualifications or experience in early intervention, case management and/or injury management coupled with a comprehensive understanding of the workers compensation framework, in particular the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act of 1988, and/or legislation relevant to work, health, and safety practice are highly desirable.

Note: A merit pool or merit list will be established from this selection process and will be used to fill vacancies over the next 12 months.

Please note, this position works from a workplace designed for activity-based working (ABW). Under ABW arrangements, officers will not have a designated workstation/desk. Opportunities for flexible working options could include hybrid working, being a combination of working from home, designated office based and FlexiSpace working locations across the ACT, part-time hours, job-sharing, flexible start, and finish times.

How to Apply: Please submit:

1. A written response (maximum two pages) addressing the Professional and Technical Skills, Knowledge and Behavioural Capabilities outlined in the Position Description.
2. Your curriculum vitae with referee details

Applications should be submitted via the Apply Now Button Below.

Health and Community Services

Health and Community Services Directorate was established on the 1 July 2025. This new directorate is an amalgamation of positions previously advertised under ACT Health Directorate and Community Services Directorate.

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