Workers Compensation

**About us**

Rabobank is the world’s leading specialist in food and agribusiness banking. One of our key strengths lies in our people who have a deep understanding of agriculture and are committed to adding long-term value for clients. Our commitment to our employees and clients is at the heart of everything we do.

**If you’re looking for** great work culture, great work-life balance and flexible working, and opportunities to continuously learn and get involved with our growth journey - this is the role for you

Due to Rabobank growing our Work, Health and Safety team, we now have an exciting opening for a Workers Compensation & Return to Work Consultant to be based in Sydney.

**What Will Keep You Busy**:

- Overseeing the management of Workers Compensation early intervention, injury management, rehabilitation and Return to Work services and delivering successful best practice return to work outcomes across Australia
- Maintaining the Australian workers compensation insurance program and managing/negotiating premium renewals
- Providing effective and timely reporting to measure cost impacts on premiums, claims trends and benchmarking, premium forecasting
- Overseeing governance including statutory reporting
- Providing high level and strategic support to managers on managing workers compensation claims and claims costs
- Supporting the management of employee personal injury and illness cases, developing strategies to handle specific cases in consultation with the appropriate parties
- Working closely with the WHS Team to identify injury trends and develop strategies to assist in prevention of common injuries
- Identifying training requirements in relation to workers compensation and injury management for managers
- Developing training package for induction and onboarding of new managers in relation to WC and injury management requirements

**What you will bring to the role**:

- Experience in managing workers compensation and injury management for an organisation with offices in each state and territory of Australia (for working knowledge of legislation for each state and territory)
- Demonstrated ability to liaise, advise and negotiate effectively with key stakeholders including management, staff, external providers
- Demonstrated experience in implementing effective change management projects
- Proven track record in driving significant improvements in workers compensation claims liabilities, processes and systems
- WHS qualifications including Workcover RTW Accreditation

**Our Values, Vision and Mission**
- Rabobank Australia fully embraces inclusion and belonging and delivers positive experiences for our people and clients. Our great working conditions, broad learning and development programmes and the opportunity to work together for the greater good are reasons why our employees love working here. We are committed to our values; we are client focused, action oriented, purposeful and courageous in our work. We are professional and considerate and bring out the best in each other and are committed to keep learning. We have an open culture, where you can be yourself and be valued for who you are._

**What we're proud to offer you**:

- Two wellness days a year
- Rabobank values the development of its people and has a great Education Assistance Program to assist with professional development
- An inclusive Parental Leave policy that supports you and your family while giving you the freedom and flexibility to enjoy this special time (Primary carer up-to 14 weeks paid leave)
- We realise sometimes 4 weeks Annual Leave isn't enough At Rabobank we provide an incentive for eligible employees to receive 1 extra week Annual Leave. With an option to also purchase another 2 weeks Annual Leave
- Rabobank recognises that employees need to protect their financial wellbeing, in the event of serious illness, injury, or even death. Rabobank provides eligible permanent employees with employer-funded Death, Temporary & Permanent Disability (TPD) and Income Protection Insurance
- As part of Rabobank's global Corporate Social Responsibility, Workplace Giving aims to encourage employees to contribute to our community. Rabo Workplace Giving program matches employee donations to selected Social Partners

**Rabobank is committed to a culture where diversity and inclusion is valued, respected and encouraged. We welcome applicants from diverse cultures, faith and sexual orientation.**

**Rabobank is not accepting submissions from recruitment agencies for this role.**

**You must hold valid work rights to be considered for this role