Protect. Prevent. Empower. Everyday!
Are you passionate about building safer workplaces and protecting the well-being of every child, every day?
The Y in Geelong is seeking a WHS and Child Safety Officer who will provide leadership, expertise, and coordination across Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) and Child Safety. Working collaboratively with managers, teams, and stakeholders, this role strengthens safety culture, ensures compliance, and embeds best‑practice systems that protect staff, volunteers, contractors, patrons, and—most importantly—children and young people
A central focus of this role is leading the development and implementation of the Assurance Pilot Project , while operationalising the Child Safe Standards (including Y Australia standards) and embedding them into everyday practice across all programs and services.
Lead Health & Safety Systems
Deliver, monitor, and continuously improve Y Geelong’s OHS Management
System, including incident investigations, risk management, audits, data
analysis, and regulatory reporting.
Champion Child Safety & Safeguarding
Embed and operationalise the Child Safe Standards across the organisation,
ensuring strong governance, compliance, transparent reporting, and continuous
safeguarding improvement.
Provide Expert Leadership & Advice
Act as the organisation’s lead advisor on health, safety, and child safety—supporting
managers, mentoring teams, leading investigations, and influencing senior
leadership decisions.
Build Capability & Safety Culture
Educate, coach, and empower staff and leaders to proactively identify and
manage physical and psychosocial risks, strengthening accountability and a
positive safety culture.
✔️ Strong expertise in workplace
health & safety and child safety compliance
✔️Proven experience with investigations, assurance, audits, and continuous
improvement
✔️Ability to influence, mentor, and collaborate across diverse teams
✔️Confidence engaging with regulators, senior leaders, Boards, and stakeholders
✔️Commitment to the Y Values Honesty, Respect, Responsibility, Caring and Safety
The Y is a global organisation that works locally to develop stronger communities
through leadership opportunities partnering, with other community, private and
government organisations and addressing social change in over 120 countries
worldwide. The Y Geelong is a for-purpose, not for profit community
organisation offering the local community access to recreation, camping, youth,
and children’s services.
At the Y, we are committed to empowering all Children and Young People to feel safe and
be safe, at the Y, in their families and in their communities. As such, we
ensure that all of our candidates are appropriately screened (including police
checks) to make sure that the right people are in the right roles.
Thesuccessfully appointed applicant will be required to adhere to the Child Safety
and Wellbeing policies and practices which include; Child Safety and Wellbeing
induction, annual Child Safety training programs and committing to upholding
the safety and wellbeing of children and young people throughout terms of
employment.
First Aid – HLTAID011(maintained every 3 years)
CPR – HLTAID009 (maintained annually)
Driver's License and Car (validity maintained)
✨ Make a real impact protecting children, staff, and communities
✨ Lead meaningful change in a values‑driven organisation
✨ Influence practice at both strategic and operational levels
✨ Work alongside passionate people committed to wellbeing and safety
If you’re a safety leader who believes safeguarding and wellbeing belong at the
heart of everything we do—we’d love to hear from you
👉Apply now and help shape safer environments at Y Geelong.
Applications Close: 1st May 2026
The Royal Children's Hospital (RCH) has been providing outstanding care for Victoria's children and their families for over 147 years.
We are the major specialist paediatric hospital in Victoria and our care extends to children from Tasmania, southern New South Wales and other states around Australia and overseas.
With a passionate, highly skilled and committed staff campus wide of over 5,000, we provide a full range of clinical services, tertiary care and health promotion and prevention programs for children and young people.
We are the designated state-wide major trauma centre for paediatrics in Victoria and a Nationally Funded Centre for cardiac and liver transplantation.
When it comes to training and research we partner with the very best. Our campus partners, the Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI) and The University of Melbourne Department of Paediatrics, along with the RCH Foundation, are on site with the hospital in Parkville. Together, we are committed to improving the health outcomes for children today and in the future.
In 2016–17, more than 85,654 children attended our Emergency Department, 322,291 specialist clinic appointments were held which was almost 70,000 more than the previous year, more than 17,000 surgeries were performed and more than 48,552 children were admitted to our wards.
