Health and Safety Specialist

Career progression opportunities to either Research or Consultancy
- Office-based role working across a range of different industries
- On-the-job training, development, and career growth

**The opportunity**:
Employsure is Australia's leading specialist in workplace relations. With over 30,000 small business clients, we are changing the way businesses look at their workplace relations and seek advice.

This role is part of our WHS Research team that supports our Advice and Consultancy teams. We are looking for a Health and Safety Specialist who will be responsible for ensuring that WHS advice provided to our clients is correct, by proactively reviewing legislative changes across Australia and New Zealand. You will work with a variety of internal teaks to ensure that our position on matters is relevant and up to date.

You will be crucial in identifying, interpreting, and developing new resources for our teams and keeping them up to date of any developments in law. Your ability to manage your time effectively during peak times will be paramount and your absolute focus on accuracy will ensure the rest of the team are delivering accurate guidance to our clients.

**Key accountabilities**:

- Communicate complex information or concepts to clients without using technical jargon
- Provide timely and practical advice to clients from all industry types
- Deliver industry defining service by partnering with clients as a trusted Adviser
- Proactively review legislative changes across Australia and New Zealand and work with internal teams to determine if changes in our position are required
- Reactively review and observe changes in WHS trends across Australia and New Zealand and work with stakeholders to determine if changes in the company stance are required
- Using technical legal expertise to interpret the changes identified and work with stakeholders to determine what our stance should be

**The right person will have**:

- Diploma qualified in Work Health and Safety
- 2 years’ experience working across Health and Safety
- Detailed and up to date knowledge of the Work Health and Safety legislation, together with relevant practical experience in providing professional quality advice across all WHS and safety matters
- excellent communication skills both verbal and written
- Capacity to comprehend new legal concepts and information quickly, and then communicate about them clearly and coherently.

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**What you get in return**:

- Clear career pathways: relevant quality, productivity and service measurements and resulting remuneration milestones
- An additional 5 annual leave days after 2 years of service, plus one extra day for every anniversary year above 5 years (10 extra days in total max)
- An active social committee dedicated to organising company & state-wide events & celebration
- Many additional benefits after 2 years of service including paid parental leave, further education allowance, volunteer leave & financial support to name a few
- Yearly milestone celebrations
- Did we mention free, daily breakfast, office amenities and a bi-weekly tea trolley

**Why join Employsure?**

The opportunities are endless, with personal and professional growth being one of our top priorities. In addition, we offer our employees remarkable benefits. If you are looking for a role that can match your ambitions, we want to hear from you.

With a global track record of over 30 years of success, this is your chance to join an industry leader who prides itself on expertise and innovation at an exciting time in the Australian and New Zealand market.