• Permanent Full Time
• Opportunities across all Blue Care clusters, from Cairns to the Gold Coast
• Drive a new initiative across the organisation

Blue Care are currently inviting applications for the newly created role of Senior Manual Handling Coach as part of the Manual Handling Program to improve organisational safety.

This unique opportunity provides you the chance to be involved in the organisations strategy, driving a new initiative across the business whilst being strongly supported by WHS to achieve this roll out.

Your role:
A diverse and challenging opportunity, you will implement the organisational Manual Handling (MH) program within your respective cluster, ensuring consistency throughout the services, and leading the management of manual handling support within your region.  

Together with the WHS Manual Handling Team, you will drive this primary injury prevention program through the delivery of manual handling training and competency assessments to staff, mentor and facilitate the manual handling coach network whilst supporting investigations and risk assessments to effectively manage current and potential manual handling risks.

As a business-wide initiative, your role will require a degree of travel within your delegated cluster.

We’ll look after you too:

As the largest not-for-profit provider of Hospital, Family, Aged and Community Services in Queensland, UnitingCare delivers services in over 400 locations - offering the opportunity to advance your career from Coomera to Katherine and almost everywhere in between. We offer:

• Charity salary packaging to pay benefits and living expenses from pre-income tax
• Flexible work arrangements, where we emphasise a work-life balance
• Access to financial, retail and lifestyle discounts and benefits
• Learning and development to support you in your role

With our family including The Wesley Hospital, Lifeline and Blue Care, we’re an organisation committed to service, offering our people a values-based culture and benefits.

Your skills & experience:
With a background in Nursing or Allied Health, you will have a robust understanding of the clinical risks, impacts and importance of manual handling, with a passion for seeing sound, preventative measures implemented across your group.

A strong collaborator, you’re keen to engage those around you in order to see the success of your ideas and initiatives. With excellent interpersonal skills, you can confidently engage a workforce from all walks of life, cultures and backgrounds on the importance of safety practices, adapting to your audience accordingly.

You’ll demonstrate:

• Clinical background with knowledge and skill in manual handling
• Excellent problem-solving skills with an ability to manage conflicting priorities
• Enthusiasm, knowledge and skill for ergonomics, manual handling principles and practice
• Experience in WHS risk management, particularly the risk assessment process or willingness to learn.
• Current valid Qld Driver’s license.

Ready to work together? To apply for this opportunity, please click on the 'Apply' button below to be taken to our online application process.

Our process includes undergoing a Federal Police check and some positions will require you to complete an online medical assessment. We pay for both of these and it’s an easy process. You also need full working rights for Australia.

We work hard to make our services welcoming and safe for every person. We are united in keeping children, young people and the elderly safe from harm, within our services, workplaces and the communities we support. We are committed to speaking up loudly for their safety.

Through our values UnitingCare are proud of our teams diversity, we believe in the strength of a diverse and inclusive workforce to help us achieve the best outcomes for the communities in which we operate and serve. We highly encourage applications from people who identify as a part of the Australian Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander Community.