Careers

About the Organisation

Make a real difference in the lives of vulnerable Australians with this unique opportunity to provide both corporate expertise and community support. With a focus on people, not profit, Life Without Barriers’ corporate services team partners with our direct support staff to ensure we continue our mission to change lives for the better. If a truly inclusive, collaborative, and fast-paced work environment sounds like your next career move, this is an opening not to be missed.

Life Without Barriers is a leading social purpose organisation of 8,000 employees working in more than 500 communities across Australia. We support children, young people and families, people with disability, older people, and people with mental illness. We work with people who are homeless and refugees and asylum seekers.  Join a community of people dedicated to breaking down barriers.

We want to employ people who reflect the diversity of our clients to ensure we can support each client's individual needs and wants. We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander background and people with disability to apply.

About this Role

The purpose of the Safety and Wellbeing Senior Advisor role is to partner with the business to implement and support safety and wellbeing strategies, initiatives, and activities across Child, Youth & Family, Disability and Mental Health programs in Western Australia. This role also involves influencing, coaching, and guiding stakeholders to strengthen their capabilities and support the effective management of critical and local risks.

To be successful in this role you will have a partnership approach and demonstrate strong relationship building skills to drive safety outcomes.

This is a full-time, 12-month maximum-term contract commencing on 25 September 2025. The role is ideally based at our Leederville office, with some flexibility for remote work.  Occasional travel will be required.

Key Responsibilities

• Engage and support the business to achieve functional and business plan outcomes and other organisational programs and initiatives
• Partner with local leadership to oversee health and safety compliance of all work sites in their portfolio, ensuring the business have the required health and safety policies, procedures and systems in place to manage risks and meet regulatory responsibilities
• Implement local or national projects supporting critical risk management and continuous improvement in safety and wellbeing
• Lead the completion of incident investigations, reporting activities and support workplace risk assessments where required
• Conduct internal safety and wellbeing audits and monitor non-conformance in key areas such as fire inspections, asbestos registers
• Monitor compliance of contractor and third-party health and safety requirements and escalate to internal stakeholders as appropriate; Property and Fleet
• Deliver safety and wellbeing training as appropriate. Work in partnership with Learning & Development for accredited or specialised training such as HSR, First Aid (including Mental Health FA), CPR

Skills & Experience

• Tertiary qualification in Workplace Health and Safety (or related field)
• Demonstrated understanding of current legislative requirements within workplace health safety and environment
• Demonstrated experience in monitoring a safety management system within a geographically dispersed organisation operating in multi-site locations
• Experience in similar Health and Safety partnering role in medium to large-sized organisations
• A self-motivated, results-orientated individual with proven experience in building relationships through a partnership approach
• Proven experience in supporting a strong safety culture resulting in improved safety performance
• Experience in a similar position within a Human Services organisation or as an Allied Health Professional with safety risk management experience preferable

The successful candidate will be required to clear probity checks including National Criminal History Record Check.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work for one of Australia's leading social purpose organisations
• Opportunity to make a huge impact to the lives of our front-line workers and their clients
• Excellent tax benefits and rostered days off
• Fitness passport (a discounted health and fitness pass for multiple gyms nationally)

How to Apply

Include your resume and cover letter in one document, click ‘Apply’ and follow the prompts. For any enquiries relating to the position, contact debra.neil@lwb.org.au

Candidates with disabilities who require adjustments to the recruitment process or the application form in an alternate format can visit https://www.lwb.org.au/careers/ for information on our access and inclusion work and how to contact us directly.

Applications close Sunday 10^th August 2025