People and Culture Officer
On-siteHawthorn East, Victoria, Australia
Job Summary
Provide practical People & Culture operations support across the employee lifecycle, including onboarding, offboarding, contract variations, and routine employment administration. Maintain accurate employee data in Employment Hero and related systems, ensuring data quality, confidentiality, and compliance. Manage routine inbox enquiries, staff queries, and job-share handovers while coordinating OHS/WHS administration, incident reporting, and psychosocial risk management. Support return to work processes, injury management, and compliance registers, including mandatory training and policy acknowledgements. Coordinate workplace wellbeing activities and workforce reporting. This role requires tertiary qualifications in Human Resources or Business Administration, experience with HRIS platforms, and strong attention to detail. Full-time position in Hawthorn East with hybrid work options.
Required Qualifications
- Tertiary qualifications or equivalent experience in Human Resources, Workplace Health and Safety, Business Administration or a related field
- Experience in HR operations, workplace wellbeing, OHS/WHS, RTW, injury management, compliance coordination or a comparable people-focused administration role
- Knowledge of, or willingness to develop capability in, OHS/WHS obligations, psychosocial risk management, incident reporting and safe return to work practices
- Experience maintaining confidential records, registers, HRIS data, compliance documentation and process tracking systems with strong attention to detail
- Practical understanding of employment, workplace health and safety, privacy and workers compensation concepts, with sound judgement to seek advice or escalate matters
- Strong written communication and digital skills, including Microsoft Office, online systems and HRIS platforms such as Employment Hero or similar
- Well-developed interpersonal skills, discretion and sound judgement when handling confidential or sensitive matters
- A proactive, improvement-focused mindset and alignment with Cairnmillar's values and purpose in mental health and education
- Working with children, police and reference checks
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