Specialist Health

**Date**:Oct 8, 2024**Job Posting End Date**:
**Job Country**:Australia**Job State/Province**:Western Australia**Job Location/Region**:Perth**About BHP**

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.
- About the Role- This is a nine (9) month fixed term contract and part time hours three days per week, reporting to the HSS Manager, through delivery of core business processes you will be responsible for providing technical expertise in injury prevention and injury management activities. Through collaborating with the customer and building strong relationships with key stakeholders to create a culture that prioritises key health activities, you will work to reduce occupational-related health risks, and to deliver health promotion that encourages a mentally healthy workforce.- Our organisation design principles define the standards for how we organise our work into jobs, our jobs into teams and support those teams with defined capabilities, the HSS team provides deep functional expertise and business partnership to the operations we are co-located with to ensure risks with HSS impacts are effectively managed.- Through proactive engagement and coaching of operational leaders, the health specialist delivers meaningful support on occupational health related matters and deliver key health activities that encourages a healthy workforce.- You will be required to:
- Support personnel who become injured or ill at work through an effective return to work approach in line with BHP and workers compensation requirements;
- Provide technical expertise in injury prevention and injury management activities;
- Maintain health reporting and execute data integrity and governance activities;
- Maintain mutually beneficial relationships with medical and allied health providers; and,
- Work in a fast-paced, dynamic environment as part of a well-established team
- About You- To be successful in the Health Specialist role you will have a genuine desire to help people achieve positive health and wellbeing outcomes; combined with a clear understanding of the role that the resources sector plays in health and wellbeing management of our most important asset - our people.- You will also have:
- Tertiary qualifications and proven experience in a health-related discipline (e.g. Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Nursing or Exercise Physiology);
- Working knowledge of relevant Health-related legislation across Australia and coordinating workers compensation case management;
- Experience delivering health strategies and injury and illness prevention initiatives; and,
- A commitment to coaching, influencing, and encouraging a mentally healthy workforce.
- You will be able to work closely and share workload with your team but also be comfortable working autonomously when required and make informed decisions. You will be motivated by a fast-paced environment and the opportunity to problem solve and drive positive change.**About Our Process**

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

**Supporting a Diverse Workforce**

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees' lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce that’s more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your i