WorkCover Queensland is entering an exciting new chapter, guided by a renewed strategic focus and strong executive leadership shaping our 2030 Strategy. We’re embarking on an enterprise-wide transformation to strengthen our impact and continue making a positive difference in people’s lives.
As our Safety and Wellbeing Specialist, you'll play a hands-on role in creating and maintaining a safe, healthy and supportive workplace. Working closely with leaders across the business, you'll provide specialist WHS advice, lead wellbeing initiatives and help drive a proactive safety culture through practical risk management, education and continuous improvement.
This is a broad and varied role that combines operational and strategic responsibilities. You'll develop and deliver the annual wellbeing program, implement the ongoing management of the organisation's safety management system, and partner with the RTW and Rehabilitation Specialist on injury management and recovery-at-work matters. You'll also be involved in incident and hazard management, including the investigation of reportable and notifiable incidents, psychosocial risk assessments and the implementation of effective corrective actions.
In addition, you'll oversee key WHS governance activities such as emergency management planning, , lead the WHS committee coordination, first aid governance and WHS registers. Using data and insights from incidents, hazards, wellbeing initiatives and claims, you'll identify trends, present Board and ELT reporting and recommend practical solutions that strengthen organisational capability, compliance and employee wellbeing outcomes.
You're an experienced WHS professional who enjoys balancing strategic initiatives with practical, day-to-day safety management. You bring strong knowledge of workplace health and safety legislation, risk management and contemporary wellbeing practices, and are confident providing specialist advice across a diverse range of safety, wellbeing and injury management matters.
You'll have demonstrated experience managing complex incidents and investigations, implementing effective controls, and supporting safety management systems, ideally within an ISO 45001 and/or ISO 45003 environment. Experience working with psychosocial risks, psychological injury management, emergency management, wellbeing programs and recovery-at-work practices will be highly regarded.
Just as importantly, you're a collaborative and trusted advisor who builds strong relationships across all levels of an organisation. You have excellent communication and coaching skills, can influence positive safety outcomes, and are comfortable analysing data to identify trends, emerging risks and opportunities for improvement. Relevant tertiary qualifications in WHS, Health Sciences, Psychology, Human Resources or a related discipline are essential, while specialist certifications such as WHSO, Fire Safety Advisor or similar will be highly regarded.
Our vision is to be the best workers’ compensation insurer, making a positive difference to people’s lives and keeping Queenslanders working. At WorkCover, we deliver with heart, own our outcomes, work best together and stay open to what’s possible - and we’re looking for people who share these values
When you join us, you’ll benefit from:
If this sounds like you, we’d love to hear from you. Applications close 4pm on Wednesday 7th October 2026.
We are committed to ensuring WorkCover reflects the diversity of the Queensland community. We welcome applications from First Nations peoples, members of the LGBTQIA+SB community, people of all ages, people who are neurodivergent, people with disability, and people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds.
Acceptance of applications submitted after advertising closes is at the discretion of the selection panel.
To ensure you have the best and most inclusive experience, please let us know if you require any reasonable adjustments or accommodations to help you confidently showcase your skills and potential. You can contact us at recruitment@workcoverqld.com.au or let our recruitment team know during your conversation with them.
Pre-employment checks will be conducted on all prospective employees. This includes a Right to Work in Australia Check, Police Check, Education Check, Reference Check, and where appropriate a Visa Check. The information provided will be treated as confidential in accordance with the Information Privacy Act 2009 (Qld). All permanent appointments are subject to a probationary period in accordance with our policy.
