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Join the SALHN Disaster Resilience Unit

Based in Adelaide's southern metropolitan region, you will play a crucial role in ensuring the safety and security of patients, visitors, and staff across our healthcare facility. This position requires someone who can respond effectively to emergency situations while maintaining the highest standards of fire safety compliance.

About the role: 

Reporting to the Director, this role is responsible for general operations of disaster resilience through the effective co-ordination, consultation and management of fire safety, emergency response and security.

Duties for the role will include:

• Ensuring that service provision and the activities of the unit are person and family centred and professionally and effectively conducted by contributing to the development of an integrated team approach and culture which is highly responsive to the needs of our consumers.
• Ensuring the effective management of human, financial and physical assets through appropriate planning and allocation of resources to achieve agreed unit and strategic plans.
• Oversee and coordinate the operational delivery of security, fire life safety and emergency response for the site, monitoring its effectiveness, ensuring compliance with performance outcomes.
• Recommending and developing strategies to minimise or eliminate potential risks in relation to fire safety, security and emergency response.
• Monitoring and evaluating the effectiveness of security, emergency response and fire life safety activities, recommending and implementing strategies for improvement.
• Assisting with development on major procedural matters, providing consultation advice.
• Developing and conducting a wide range of standardised education programs and training packages for all staff, contractors, students and volunteers relating to fire life safety and emergency response management, including provision of orientation sessions.

About you:

• TAE 40116 Certificate IV in Training and Assessment or evidence of commencing Certificate IV in Training and Assessment within the first 12 months of employment
• Diploma or higher education qualification relevant to Education and Training and Fire Life Safety.
• Diploma or Certification IV in Leadership and Management.
• Extensive experience in managing complex and critical health disaster resilience strategies to meet organisational performance outcomes in a complex dynamic environment with competing needs and priorities.
• Proven well developed ability to direct and lead teams under pressure, including participation and leadership in incident response.
• Willingness and ability to evolve and adapt to change and upheaval.
• Demonstrated high level ability to work effectively to develop, implement, monitor and review policies and procedures.
• Awareness of National Safety and Quality Health Service Standards.

Please see the attached Role Description for additional information.

Want To Know More? Contact: Kelly Lewis, Director - SALHN Disaster Resilience Unit, (08) 8204 6181, Kelly.Lewis@sa.gov.au

Application Closing Date: 11.55 pm Sunday 17 May 2026

Attachments:

• Role Description - Senior Fire & Emergency Officer
• Australian applicant guidelines
• International applicant guidelines

Applicant Information:

• We also offer salary sacrifice benefits which provide the opportunity to save money by paying for some of your everyday expenses from your salary before it is taxed. Click here to find out more about salary packaging.
• The South Australian public sector promotes diversity and flexible ways of working including part-time. Applicants are encouraged to discuss the flexible working arrangements for this role.
• Appointment will be subject to a satisfactory Criminal History Check and Immunisation compliance as indicated on the Role description.
• SA Health Services are required to implement the Addressing vaccine preventable disease: Occupational assessment, screening and vaccination policy in the workplace.
• Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander applicants are encouraged to apply.  Job ref: 937444