About NSW State Emergency Service
Our Mission: NSW SES saving lives and creating safer communities.
Our Vision: A trusted volunteer-based emergency service, working together to deliver excellence in community preparedness and emergency response.
The NSW SES serves the NSW community as the lead agency for floods, storms, and tsunamis as specified by the State Emergency Service Act 1989. We are recognised as the most versatile and widely used emergency service organisation in NSW. Our volunteers are highly skilled, experienced, and well- trained in the wide variety of roles they perform.
Each NSW SES Unit is as unique and varied as the community it serves, reflecting the vast mix of risks faced and roles required in the diverse locations and communities across the state. In addition to flood, storm and tsunami, our Service provides specialist capabilities that include general land rescue, vertical rescue, road crash rescue, and alpine and remote area search and rescue. The NSW SES responded to over 64,000 requests for assistance from the community over the 2021-22 year.
The NSW SES has over 10,000 volunteer members, including reserves, and a full-time equivalent workforce of over 370. There are 262 volunteer Units across the State and our volunteer Units are either local, community-based Units, State-wide or regional Units established to provide specialist capabilities. They are varied and unique in their capabilities, designed to address specific risks to communities of NSW.
About the role
The Safety Advisor is a pivotal role in ensuring the NSW SES maintains and continually improves its safety culture. This role will prepare and communicate safety messaging, partake in safety solutions across all the emergency service activities our members participate in, and will play a key role in implementing safety strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure compliance with relevant legislation and codes of practice.
Working closely with leaders and volunteers, the Safety Advisor will also be responsible for assisting with identifying and mitigating safety risks and hazards, including analysing and reporting on safety data to support a safe environment for members of the NSW SES.
During operational activity, this role will also play a significant role in being a key stakeholder in the safety of our volunteers when they are responding to emergencies – this can include weekend and after hours work during heightened operational activity.
This role is flexible with hybrid working arrangements with a minimum of 3 days at the HQs office in Wollongong.
Applying for the role
Click this link to apply, follow the instructions and submit as separate attachments.
Want to know more?
If you want to know more about this opportunity, please contact Nick Taylor (nick.taylor@ses.nsw.gov.au).
Closing date: 19/11/2024 - 11:59 PM