Team Leader - Environmental Health

Your new role:

As Team Leader – Environmental Health, you will lead the delivery of advanced environmental health services while driving excellence in public health outcomes across Metro South Health.

• Lead and coordinate a team of Environmental Health Officers, overseeing workforce planning, performance, and service delivery
• Deliver high-level environmental health services, including complex investigations and public health risk responses
• Provide expert advice, stakeholder engagement, and representation across government, industry, and public health networks
• Drive service improvement, governance, and innovation through data analysis, research, and evidence-based practice

About you:

You are an experienced environmental health professional with strong leadership capability and a passion for improving public health outcomes.

• Advanced expertise in environmental and public health, with the ability to apply independent professional judgement in complex situations
• Proven leadership experience, including mentoring, team development, and managing multidisciplinary teams
• Highly developed communication and stakeholder engagement skills across diverse and complex environments
• Strong organisational and analytical skills, with experience in service improvement, workforce planning, and implementing innovative solutions

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.