Health & Safety Specialist

We're looking for compassionate and creative people to join our team. If you enjoy working as part of a collaborative culture, you will thrive in our organization-wide, cross-functional projects and programs. You will value self-care and wellbeing because you know we cannot support others if we’re not caring for ourselves. Knowing this, you’ll make good use of our comprehensive benefits plan and perks program.
- What’s in it for You- Specialized employment opportunities in mental health care.
- Extensive training from your first day here.
- A focus on employee wellness. Self-care helps us support others.
- A hospital that welcomes and focuses on Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion.
- Competitive salary and vacation entitlement
- Comprehensive Benefit / Pension Plans
- Access to 24/7 Employee and Family Assistance Program
- Employee Perks Program
- Support life-long learning through our Tuition Assistance program and ongoing learning and development opportunities

At Ontario Shores, you will have the chance to work across different programs with a range of patients and diagnoses, to participate in medical grand rounds, leadership training, and more, you will thrive in our continuous learning and growth environment.

Ontario Shores Centre for Mental Health Sciences (Ontario Shores) is located just east of Toronto along Lake Ontario in the picturesque town of Whitby, Ontario. We offer an attractive lifestyle in a quiet community free of traffic gridlock. Staff enjoy working in a beautiful building in a park-like setting featuring indoor courtyards, beautiful gardens, walking paths, gazebos and outdoor eating areas.

Ontario Shores is thrilled to be named a Greater Toronto Area Top Employer for the sixth straight year.

We have also received numerous awards from Greening Healthcare for improvements in energy utilization and have a strong focus on sustainability.
Ontario Shores has a deeply embedded culture of recovery. Our recovery model of care is based on the principles of empowerment, hope, recovery, collaboration, identity, responsibility and meaning in life.

The Position
The Health and Safety Specialist is responsible for managing and strategically enhancing the organization’s safety program.
This position plays a critical role in building, supporting and enhancing the safety culture within the organization through the development and maintenance of a variety of programs, policies and procedures, conducting investigations and providing the appropriate training and assessments to staff and the organization while maintaining all WSIB claims and case management.
- Overall Health and Safety Program and Policy Development & Implementation- Develop and implement health and safety policies and procedures for the organization and recommend corrective/preventative measures to reduce safety risk. You must be able to advise on changing legislation, flag what is “missing” and draft policy.
- Maintain compliance with health and safety legislative requirements, as well as established health and safety policies and procedures
- Develop and implement a health and safety training program, fostering the safety culture within the organization
- Respond to health and safety inquiries from employees and managers
- Liaise, when required, with external government agencies (Ministry of Labour, WSIB) and provide required reporting
- Health and Safety Related Training, Assessments & Investigations- Respond to and investigate critical incidents
- Attend Joint Health and Safety Committee (JHSC) meetings and ensure all JHSC committee members are trained, providing further training as required
- Provide Workplace Hazardous Material Information Systems (WHMIS) training
- Conduct or arrange for air quality and other safety-related environmental testing
- Lead and/or coordinate health and safety training for managers/supervisors including training on managing the injured worker, accident investigation, critical injuries and roles and responsibilities under the Occupational Health and Safety Act and other health and safety-related legislation.
- Educate staff on accident and injury prevention
- Participate in new hire orientation as it relates to health and safety
- Take an active role in managing/liaising with health and safety representatives at satellite offices
- Coordinate the completion of workplace inspections and evacuation drills
- Investigate accidents, injuries and hazards, coordinating with JHSC
- Assist management in conducting risk assessments
- Conduct Ergonomic Assessments
- WSIB Claims and Case Management- Develop/maintain WSIB case management
- Work in concert with Occupational Health to facilitate early and successful return to work, developing time-limited, goal-oriented, transitional modified work plans in collaboration with unit managers, the employee and their bargaining representative
- Collaborates with stakeholders to develop, implement and monitor permanent accommodation
- Compile accident and incident