Health, Safety & Wellbeing Lead

About us | Mō mātou

ACC is a trusted and high-performing organisation, providing care, supporting recovery and promoting injury prevention, now and into the future.

You can find more about ACC and the work we do here.

About the role | Mō te tūranga mahi

At ACC, our vision is clear: Wellbeing, Health and Safety is part of everything we do, creating an environment where our people can thrive. We are looking for a highly skilled and values driven Health, Safety and Wellbeing Lead to help us deliver on this vision and uplift the wellbeing and safety of kaimahi across the organisation.

This role is key to ensuring ACC meets its wellbeing, health and safety obligations and continues to mature its approach - moving from compliance based to learning focused, proactive and human-centred practice. You will lead a team of seven experienced specialists and work closely with leaders across ACC to strengthen our systems, empower our people, and improve outcomes at both a strategic and day to day level.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Strengthen our approach to critical risk management and psychosocial risk, ensuring robust controls and continuous improvement.
• Drive organisation wide initiatives that embed wellbeing and safety into workplace design, leadership capability, and people practices.
• Partner with senior leaders to support effective incident management, high-quality investigations, and meaningful learning from events.
• Ensure our people leaders are supported and equipped to fulfil their WHS responsibilities, model safe behaviours, and create psychologically safe, healthy working environments.
• Oversee wellbeing reporting, insights and metrics to support effective decision-making at Executive and Board level.
• Support and enable collaborative relationships with Health and Safety Representatives, unions, committees and other key partners.

About you | Mōu

You will bring a combination of expertise, leadership capability and personal attributes that enable you to influence, innovate, and build trust across a complex organisation. You bring empathy, sound judgement and a calm, grounded presence, paired with a curious, improvement focused mindset. You’re resilient and adaptable, able to navigate complexity and change.

• Proven experience leading wellbeing, health and safety in a large and complex organisation.
• Strong knowledge of risk management, including critical risk and psychosocial risk.
• Demonstrated experience developing, implementing and maturing systems, strategies and frameworks.
• Deep understanding of the Health and Safety at Work Act 2015 and best practice wellbeing, health and safety methodologies.
• Experience leading incident response, investigations and assurance in a way that prioritises learning and improvement.
• A collaborative, inclusive leadership style - able to build strong relationships and credibility at all levels.
• Confidence engaging with Executive stakeholders and supporting them to meet their WHS responsibilities.
• Skilled at balancing operational delivery and strategic direction-setting.
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to translate technical concepts into practical guidance.

Working at ACC | Mō ACC

At ACC, we embrace the rich tapestry of Aotearoa New Zealand’s cultures and are dedicated to providing equitable opportunities. We know that a diverse and inclusive team helps us meet the needs of our customers, and we encourage applications from individuals of all backgrounds, ethnicity, national origin, gender identity, age, and those with diverse abilities. It is important to us that people are free to be themselves at work. Here are some ways we encourage that:

• Employee networks to support our colleagues from diverse backgrounds.
• The option to explore flexible working that suits your needs and ours.

The appointing salary for this role will sit between $138,301 and $195,248 and we offer an additional 9% superannuation contribution. ACC offers a comprehensive benefits package which at present includes an advantageous superannuation scheme with features like 0% contribution required by you, optional life and income protection insurance, and the flexibility to change to a locked plan at any time, ensuring your financial security now and in retirement.

How to appl | Me pēhea te tuku tono

Please attach your CV and cover letter telling us why you would be a great fit and what strengths you would bring to the role.

Applications will run through to 5pm Friday 13th February. However please note that if an ideal candidate is found during this time we will move forward with screening and interviewing sooner.

Applications can only be accepted when submitted through our ACC Career Website. If you encounter accessibility issues when submitting your application, or if you have any pātai (questions) about the role please email HRHelp.