Workcover Officer

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: The Royal Women's Hospital

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Communications, Marketing and Media, Finance, Human Resources, IT and Telecommunications, Information Management

Reference: 25011

**Workplace Health and Safety Support Officer - Workplace Health and Safety**

**Ongoing Position**
**22.8 Hours per week flexible days on negotiation**

The Royal Women’s Hospital is Australia’s first and largest specialist hospital dedicated to improving the health and wellbeing of newborns and women of all ages. To join the Women’s is to be instrumental in forging progress towards health equity for women from ground-breaking research through to the bedside delivery of multi-disciplinary clinical care.

Creating exceptional experiences is at the heart of everything we do for our patients, their families, and our people across our specialised services within maternity, neonatal and women’s health.

Workplace Health & Safety is focused on supporting the Women's to promote health and safety for all staff and to provide comprehensive services around Workplace Health & Safety and Injury management

**Your contribution**

The Workplace Health and Safety Support Officer will be responsible for supporting Workplace Health and Safety team to administer the injury management and the occupational, health and safety programs across the organisation.

Your duties will include (but are not limited to) the following:

- Be an initial primary point of contact for Return to Work and WorkCover enquiries from managers and employees
- Assist the Return to Work team with the preparation of correspondence to injured employees, WorkCover claimants, claims agent and treatment providers
- Provide a warm, friendly customer service to all enquiries, including answering telephone calls and passing on messages as required
- Injured worker payroll administration, setting up files, making payments and reimbursements
- Assisting the Workplace Health and Safety team with data entry, reporting, invoicing, training bookings

**About you**

To be successful within this role you will need to have:

- Previous experience in Administrative, Payroll, Workcover or similar role
- High level administrative and organisational skills
- Excellent computer literacy skills, including proficient in MS Office suite
- Exceptional verbal and written communication skills
- Strong mathematical skills with an ability to spot numerical errors
- Basic understanding of Workcover and OHS legislation

**Our offering**

When you join the Women’s you unite with talented people who share your purpose and unwavering determination to advance health outcomes for all women. You will find a workplace that is collaborative, progressive and passionate about learning and working together in multi-disciplinary teams to ensure you find the**_ exceptional _**in your everyday.

We are proudly Breastfeeding Association accredited. The Women’s is committed to gender equity principles and our people have an awareness of and sensitive approach to violence against women/family violence matters.

**Ready to make the move?**

**COVID-19 Vaccination Requirement***

Please be aware that in line with the Health Minister's Covid-19 Mandatory Vaccination Order, all workers at the Women's regardless of role, will be required to be fully vaccinated (3 doses) for COVID-19 or hold an acceptable medical exemption.

**Influenza Vaccination Requirement**

In line with the Health Services Amendment (Mandatory Vaccination of Healthcare Workers) Act 2020, some health care workers are now required to have their flu vaccination to work in health care. Evidence of vaccination is required.

As this role fits into category C of the departments risk ratings, applicants are strongly encouraged (although not required) to be vaccinated against influenza.)

All applicants will be required to provide acceptable evidence of their vaccination status.