Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Health Manager Level 4
Remuneration: $147,653 - $175,917 per annum + Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ668237
Location: Sydney or Newcastle - Negotiable
Applications Close: 21 June 2026 - 11:59pm
About the opportunity
Championing safety, wellbeing and return to work success!
We are seeking an experienced WHS professional to lead a dedicated team committed to driving and promoting best practice in health, safety, and return-to-work outcomes. This role offers flexibility in location, with occasional travel across the state required.
You will bring a proven track record in leading high-performing, multidisciplinary teams – fostering engagement, building capability, and supporting ongoing professional development to deliver measurable results.
The successful candidate will also demonstrate strong experience in designing and implementing organisation-wide culture change initiatives that enhance health, safety, and wellbeing. This includes delivering targeted strategies to strengthen psychological safety within a large and complex environment.
What you'll be doing
The Senior Manager, Health, Safety, and Recovery at Work (HSR@W) provides leadership and assurance of NSW Health Pathology’s (NSWHP’s) work health and safety (WHS), injury management, recovery at work, wellbeing and staff health functions. This role ensures regulatory compliance, effective management of physical and psychosocial risk, and integration of prevention, recovery and wellbeing strategies to protect workers and support sustainable workforce capability, in alignment with NSWHP strategic objectives.
Operating with a high degree of autonomy, the role exercises independent professional judgement on complex, high risk and sensitive matters. It delivers authoritative advice to senior executives and governance committees, and leads specialist teams to deliver systems, frameworks and assurance that balance employee wellbeing with organisational, legal and financial risk.
What we can offer you
Financial Benefits - Generous salary packaging options and other fringe benefits
Work-life balance - Up to 12 additional days off per year in addition to Annual Leave (for full-time employees)
Professional growth - Learning and development opportunities, including in-house training with RTO My Health Learning
Health & wellbeing - Fitness Passport gym discounts and Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for staff and families.
