Senior P&C Advisor, WH&S

About the Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission

The Aged Care Quality and Safety Commission is the national regulator of Australian Government-funded aged care services.

We protect and enhance the safety, health, wellbeing, and quality of life of people receiving aged care. This includes managing complaints and feedback about the care older people receive.

We help build confidence and trust in aged care, by promoting best practice and a culture of safety and quality in the sector. We register providers and hold them to account if they don’t meet expected standards of care.

We work with providers, workers, older people, their families, and supporters to make sure they understand and uphold older people’s rights.

Meet some of our people and learn more about the Commission and our Regulatory Strategy on our website www.agedcarequality.gov.au

About the Team

The Wellbeing, Health and Safety (WHS) team aims to create a safe and healthy workplace that nurtures and supports the health and wellbeing of our staff.  The team ensures the Commission complies with our legislative WHS duties and requirements, proactively manages physical and psychosocial risks to health and safety in our work environment and delivers Commission-wide wellbeing initiatives.

About the Role

As part of the WHS team, the APS6 Senior P&C Advisor position supports the Commission’s business areas in the effective management of health, safety and wellbeing in the workforce. In this role, you will proactively manage physical and psychosocial risks, provide high-level advice, support and assistance on health and safety matters, manage hazard and incident investigation and resolution processes. You will play a key role in supporting the health and safety of our staff and work collaboratively to achieve our strategic wellbeing outcomes.

Position Duties

Accountabilities may include the following:

• Support Commission compliance with WHS legislation and regulations
• Take a central role in the delivery of WHS projects, aimed at compliance with legislation and best practise
• Provide accurate and timely health, safety and wellbeing advice and support to staff and managers
• Oversee psychosocial and physical risk management, risk assessments and implementation of control measures
• Manage the incident and hazard identification and reporting process, including stakeholder engagement and incident/safety investigation to ensure appropriate analysis and effective risk mitigation controls are identified to minimise risk as reasonably practicable.
• Support development and implementation of a psychosocial risk framework
• Promote wellbeing, health and safety within the Commission
• Preparing a range of correspondence, documents, reports, submissions and proposal papers for internal and external stakeholders
• Maintain consistent and effective records and produce accurate data and reports

Position Eligibility Requirements (Selection Criteria):

To be successful in this role you will need to demonstrate the following:

• Strong experience in risk management, incident investigations and psychological safety
• An understanding of relevant WHS legislation in the Australia Public Service environment
• High level communication, relationship building, interpersonal and influencing skills, including ability to coach and educate leaders on best practice people management
• Strong analytical, problem-solving and dispute resolution skills
• High level organisational skills, attention to detail and ability to effectively prioritise
• Ability to support strategic direction and understand business challenges and drivers
• Self-motivated, cooperative team-player with integrity, drive and resilience
• High level skills using Microsoft Office applications, ability to use HR systems and to manage confidential and sensitive information

Qualifications and/or relevant experience

• Qualifications in Human Resources or Work, Health and Safety (highly regarded)

Mandatory

• Minimum 3 years’ experience working in a similar Work, Health and Safety role within the APS

Position Notes:

• Salary offered will be between $99,784 - $112,571 per annum depending on skills and experience. In addition, 15.4% superannuation will be paid.
• Only candidates who hold Australian citizenship can apply. Appointment is conditional on successfully completing a national police check. For more information, please visit www.apsc.gov.au/citizenship-aps
• Non-ongoing opportunity will be offered for an irregular/intermittent term. Opportunities will be offered for varying periods up to 12 months with the option to extend to a total of 24 months.
• Merit Pool established through this selection process may be used to fill this or future ongoing or non-ongoing vacancies.

In your application, please provide a statement of claims against the position eligibility requirements (selection criteria) in no more than 600-words, including what strengths you would bring to the role, and a copy of your CV.

• Please complete the application and submit by Wednesday 9th September 2026 at 11:30pm (AEST).
• Follow our guidelines for candidate use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) throughout the recruitment process.

Please contact our recruitment team on (02) •••• •262 or recruitment@agedcarequality.gov.au for assistance with accessing our website or with lodging your application.

Specific questions about the roles can be directed to Alysha Head by emailing Alysha.Head@agedcarequality.gov.au with Position title in the subject line.