🛡️ WHS & Child Safety Officer
📍 Y Geelong | Part – time 22.5hrs
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.
🌟About the Role
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.
What You’ll Bring
✔️ 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
About the Y
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.
Benefits and perks
- Flexible work arrangements
- Employee Assistance Program
- Employee access to Y services and discounts
- Ongoing Training and Career Development
- Staff Immunisation Program
- Attractive family and volunteer leave entitlements
- Staff Awards and Social Functions
- Safeguarding Children and Young People Requirements
General Child Safety and Well-being Requirements
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.
Before Commencement (Mandatory)
First Aid – HLTAID011 (maintained every 3 years)
CPR – HLTAID009 (maintained annually)
Driver’s License and Car (validity maintained)
Why Join Y Geelong?
✨ 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
🚀 Ready to Make a Difference?
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
