Injury Prevention Presenter

Please note this position is a targeted role for people with Permanent Spinal Cord Injury

Our client , PBF Australia is national not-for-profit organisation that provides much-needed financial support for those who sustain a permanent traumatic spinal cord injury. They were established to create greater awareness of the risks of spinal cord injury around Australia. They are a close friend to Spinal Cord Injuries Australia.

For those already living with a spinal cord injury, PBF offers peer support programs, lifestyle education and employment opportunities, with the goal of demonstrating that life can and does go on after a spinal cord injury.

About the Role

To deliver injury prevention presentations to a range of audiences including young adults, community groups,
employees and business managers on the following topics:

• Being injured at work affects everyone, especially work mates and family.
• Making safer choices does prevent death and serious injury.
• Ultimately every individual is responsible for their own choices.
• Your choices can impact negatively on others.
• Unsafe user behaviour can have serious real–life consequences.
• Safety as a Core Life value.

Responsible To: Business Support Manager
Reports to: Eastern States Manager
Requirements: Person must have sustained a permanent spinal cord injury.

Key Responsibilities:

• To prepare for presentations, ensuring all appropriate materials are available and functioning.
• To actively engage audiences, encouraging them to ask questions and explore issues around living with a
  spinal injury.
• To liaise and collaborate with the manager on the creation, development and maintenance of your story
  and presentation
• To liaise regularly with the respective offices to keep them aware of your availability to do presentations.
  Notify them of holidays, illness etc.
• To attend regular training sessions to ensure that all presentations are delivered to a consistently high
  standard and are kept current and up to date.
• To liaise with the respective offices regarding your attendance at presentations, travel arrangements,
  directions and check emails regularly for bookings and general correspondence.
• Where applicable, to arrange your own transport, and to ensure that you arrive at the appointment at least
  15 minutes before the start of the presentation.
• Ensure that your uniform is clean and appearance is tidy and wear your name badge
• To provide feedback following the presentation to the Injury Prevention Co–ordinator

Key Qualifications & Attributes: 

• Excellent Stakeholder management, interpersonal, and communication-skills
• Ability to work under pressure keeping quality in focus
• Increase awareness of the personal responsibility for choices and the resulting consequences.
• Encourage positive attitudes towards safer behaviour.
• Demonstrate how haste, distraction and complacency are major risk factors.
• Increase knowledge of the impact of serious injury and death on relationships and families.
• Encourage new workers and younger workers to be assertive in communicating safer choices to peers.
• Assist employers to change workplace cultures into positive safety focused cultures.
• Encourage positive behaviour choices.

Additional information and benefits:

• Supportive and dynamic work environment.

How to Apply:

For this application to be considered, please provide a current resume and cover letter outlining the following:

• Your skills and experience relevant to this role
• Proof of Australian Residency Status (citizenship or permanent residency)

Applications should be addressed to Maz Fenwick via email recruitment@scia.org.au