Ongoing full-time vacancy.

SAPOL's People, Culture and Wellbeing Service provides a holistic approach to the future development of our people and the organisation. Through strategic leadership and direction, People, Culture and Wellbeing will ensure our employees are skilled and supported to deliver a more efficient and effective service to the community. This will be achieved by increasing support to the frontline, ensuring the right people are in the right roles, developing talent pools and pipelines, delivering programs and strategies to foster highly effective leaders as well as providing collaborative business partnerships.

Recognising that the capability of our workforce is dependent on the physical and mental health of all its members, People Culture and Wellbeing will deliver programs which provide an all-inclusive approach and promote every aspect of health and wellbeing.

The Senior Manager Work Health and Safety (WHS) leads the development, promotion and implementation of workplace health, safety and wellbeing initiatives across SAPOL. The WHS section provides specialist consultancy and advisory services to support a proactive safety culture, ensuring risks are identified, assessed and effectively managed. This includes developing prevention strategies, supporting compliance with WHS legislation and SAPOL policies, delivering education and awareness programs, monitoring safety performance and trends, and collaborating with leaders and employees to embed safe systems of work.

Through these functions,



the WHS Section plays a key role in strengthening SAPOL's organisational capability to prevent injury, enhance wellbeing and maintain a safe and healthy working setting.

The Senior Manager, WHS provides strategic leadership of SAPOL's work health and safety function, driving the development implementation and continuous improvement of organisational safety, governance and risk management frameworks. The role provides expert advice to Executive and senior leaders on complex and high-risk health and safety matters, ensures compliance with legislative and Crown self-insurance obligations and leads initiatives that strengthen workforce safety, wellbeing and organisational resilience. Through leadership of a multidisciplinary team and collaboration with key stakeholders, the position influences enterprise-wide safety outcomes and supports the achievement of SAPOL's strategic objectives.

Special Conditions

- The incumbent must hold a current Australian work eligibility status and will be subject to a criminal history check.

- The incumbent may be assigned to other duties at this remuneration level or equivalent.

- Some out of hours work and intra/interstate travel may be required.

- The incumbent is required to participate in SAPOL's iEngage program.

Salary

SM1 - $144,421 per annum.

Enquiries

Deb Heames

0414 364 ***

****@police.sa.gov.au

Application Instructions

Please click on 'Apply' which will direct you to iworkforSA and further information will be provided on how to apply.

Applications Close: 5:00PM 27/11/2026

📌 Senior Manager, Work Health and Safety (Adelaide)
🏢 South Australia Police
📍 Adelaide