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.

Interested in joining Australia’s largest public pathology service? Apply now by addressing the following questions:

Relevant tertiary qualifications (or equivalent experience) in WHS, injury management, Human Resources or related fields, with capacity and willingness to travel across NSWHP locations, including overnight stays in regional/ remote areas.
Proven ability to lead and manage high-performing, multidisciplinary teams, driving engagement and supporting professional development to achieve measurable outcomes.
Demonstrated significant experience in the management of WHS, injury management and/or recover at work functions of a large and complex organisation, including advising on SafeWork investigations and other high-risk, sensitive matters
Demonstrated experience designing and implementing culture change initiatives to enhance health safety and wellbeing of staff across a large and complex organisation, including targeted initiatives to improve psychological safety
Demonstrated high level conceptual, analytical and strategic planning skills with proficiency in identifying, designing and implementing risk mitigation strategies in collaboration with key stakeholders.
Highly developed negotiation and conflict resolution skills, particularly in complex and sensitive environments.
Proven ability to develop, implement, monitor and review policies, procedures, processes and systems to ensure organisational compliance.
Exceptional interpersonal and relationship management skills with the ability to influence and drive shared accountability for risk obligations and other organisational priorities in accordance with Ministry of Health policy directives, legislative and statutory requirements.

Information for applicants

NSW Health Pathology is an equal opportunity employer committed to an inclusive workplace. We value, and welcome all suitably qualified applicants regardless of age, background, disability, sexual orientation or gender identity.
NSW Health Pathology is committed to providing accessibility and reasonable accommodations and ensuring our recruitment process is flexible, inclusive, and free from barriers, promoting equal opportunities for all to succeed. Please reach out if you need adjustments.
NSW Health Pathology is committed to growing the Aboriginal workforce in public health. For Aboriginal candidates, support is available through the Stepping Up website
You must have valid working rights in Australia for the duration of the appointment to be eligible to apply.
All workers must meet NSW Health’s vaccination and screening requirements before starting employment. See PD2026_004 for more detail. The preferred candidate may be required to undergo a functional assessment prior to appointment.
An eligibility list may be created for similar vacancies in the future.
We encourage applicants to submit responses that reflect their own experiences and perspectives. Please note that applications that appear to be generated by AI tools or copied from external sources may not be considered.

Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description
2) Find out more about applying for this position
3) For role related queries or questions contact Leanne Abernethy on ***************@health.nsw.gov.au

To learn more about NSWHP please visit “Life at NSW Health Pathology” or connect with us on LinkedIn!

Senior Manager - Health, Safety and Recovery at Work

NSW Health