Health and Safety Business Partner - Kaitaunaki Pakihi Hauora & Haumaru

Health and Safety Business Partner - Kaitaunaki Pakihi Hauora & Haumaru

Auckland City Mission – Auckland, North Island

The Health & Safety Business Partner plays a critical role in fostering a proactive, people-centred safety culture aligned with the values and kaupapa of our organisation. This role partners with leaders and kaimahi across the organisation to promote wellbeing, prevent harm, and ensure compliance with the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015, associated regulations, and industry standards.

Works collaboratively, the Health & Safety Business Partner provides expert advice, builds capability, and supports continuous improvement in health, safety, and wellbeing practices. This includes leading risk management initiatives, supporting incident response and investigations, and ensuring systems and processes are fit-for-purpose, culturally responsive, and accessible to all staff and volunteers. This role supports the organisation to uphold mana and wellbeing while responsive to complex behaviours that can arise when alongside whānau experiencing significant challenges. You’ll help embed values-based, trauma-informed, and culturally grounded approaches to understanding and managing health & safety risk.

We value team development and our people's career growth; we will mentor you on your unique journey to do meaningful work in a supportive environment. This role is a great starting point where you can learn on the job and work towards a longer-term career at Auckland Mission.

Duties

• Collaborate with Senior Manager Risk and Compliance and GM Corporate Services to implement organisation-wide health, safety, and wellbeing strategies and plans.
• Provide specialist advice and oversight on health, safety, and wellbeing matters to support informed decision making and risk management.
• Lead the development and facilitation of Health & Safety modules.
• Prepare regular reports for the Board, Leadership Team, and Audit and Risk Committee, and attend meetings as needed with guidance.
• Oversee the day-to-day function of Safety Management reports and documentation of incident investigation and corrective actions.

Skills

Skills, experience and knowledge may also be obtained from a number of different experiences. For example, from paid work, voluntary work, work undertaken within your Church, Marae, or from specific iwi / whānau responsibilities.

About the organisation

Auckland City Mission - Te Tāpui Atawhai supports Aucklanders in greatest need. Our services have evolved as the city’s social needs have changed, and we respond to these needs with care and compassion while advocating for a reality where there are : enough suitable homes, enough money for nutritious food, and easily accessible health care for all. Since our doors opened more than 100 years ago, this has been our ‘why’. Today, we operate across 9 sites in Tāmaki Makaurau. We offer support for however long and in whatever way is needed – for some people, that’s simply accessing one of our many services, for others, it’s a complex journey with our full support.

Over the past 12 months, the Mission has provided 200 people with permanent homes, conducted over 20,000 consultations at the Calder Health Centre in HomeGround, cared for 462 people in our residential social detox facility in HomeGround, distributed almost 50,000 food parcels to families and individuals, and served over 80,000 warm meals in our community dining room, Haeata.

Last year we were proud to win the Nga Āhuatanga o Te Tiriti Tohu (Award), and the Supreme Award at the 2023 Diversity Awards. These awards recognise our mahi to create a workplace which empowers Māori, and where Māori solutions can be developed and offered to the people who we support. If you are interested in this role, please apply with your resume and a cover letter outlining your interest in the role and the Auckland City Mission.

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