Team Leader, Environmental Health

This frontline support role provides essential support enabling the development and delivery of frontline services, programs and outcomes.

We're excited to welcome the Team Leader Environmental Health Officer to our Public Health Unit.

The Team Leader, Environmental Health leads and supports the operational delivery of environmental health services across the Sunshine Coast Hospital and Health Service. The role provides day-to-day leadership of the environmental health team, ensuring clear direction, consistent expectations, and a visible leadership presence. It is responsible for supervision, coaching and the provision of regular, constructive feedback to support staff performance, accountability and development. Working in partnership with the Director Environmental Health, the role contributes to operational planning, prioritisation and resource allocation to ensure services are responsive to demand and aligned with contemporary practice standards.

The position plays a key role in safeguarding the community from environmental health hazards across the natural and built environment, providing specialist advice and ensuring the consistent application of legislation, standards and policy.

Sunshine Coast Health is a values-based organisation. We are committed to the maintenance of a culture in which we treat our colleagues with respect as we do our patients, consumers and the community. We respect, protect and promote human rights in our decision-making and actions.

Key Responsibilities include

• Demonstrate specialist clinical knowledge, skills and risk-based decision making to manage the day to day delivery of environmental health services, across multiple clinical areas and across multiple Hospital and Health Services and to develop evidence-based options and implement appropriate interventions and enforcement strategies.
• Use advanced skills and expertise to manage the implementation of programs and/or investigations for breaches of relevant public health legislation and develop evidence-based options and implement and/or recommend appropriate interventions and enforcement strategies.
• Responsible for managing the operational response to complex environmental health incidents (arising from biological, social, physical and chemical hazards), utilising health risk assessment principles to minimise risks to populations.
• Provide advanced environmental health advice to key internal and external stakeholders and prepare comprehensive reports and submissions, across multiple specialty areas.

Remuneration value up to $177 587 p.a., comprising salary between $5725.00 - $5966.00 p.f., employer contribution to superannuation (12.75%) and annual leave loading (17.5%) (HP5) (Fixed Term Temporary position available until 27/09/2028). Applications will remain current for the duration of the vacancy. Please note: only applications from candidates will be accepted (applications that may result in an agency fee will not be considered).

Why work for us?

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance. As a Queensland Health employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases. We are committed to providing a diverse and inclusive workplace for our people and our community. We encourage people of all genders, races, ages and abilities to apply for roles within our Health Service.

You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Sunshine Coast here: https://www.health.qld.gov.au/sunshinecoast/careers

As a Sunshine Coast Health employee, you will receive competitive remuneration and have access to:

• A wellness program;
• Generous superannuation;
• Flexible work arrangements;
• Career training and development; and
• Salary packaging.

Check out the latest updates here:

https://www.sunshinecoast.health.qld.gov.au/