Injury Management Specialist

**Injury Management Specialist**:

- Location: Perth Office - CBD, WA, AU
- 21 Jan 2025

This role requires someone with extensive experience in injury management, with a focus on proactive case management and Workers’ Compensation Claims. Your strong stakeholder engagement & management skills will also support Formal Leaders in implementing effective and consistent health and injury management standards and processes across the organisation.

This is an opportunity to work with a close-knit team of dedicated professionals in a positive workplace culture. If you are passionate about injury management, can build positive and collaborative relationships and want to make a difference in supporting our employees, we encourage you to apply.

**Your Role in Action**
- Management of acute injuries, ensuring there is early intervention so that the employee receives the appropriate treatment to enable an effective return to work.
- Mentor and train Formal Leaders to enable them to meet their legislative requirements in all aspects of Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management.
- Review pre-post medical assessments and provide advice on occupational health risks as required.
- Provide timely and accurate weekly and monthly reports.
- Analyse health and injury management data, identify risk trends and improvement opportunities and report on findings to the Team Leader.
- Facilitate end to end employee fitness for work assessment process.
- Assist in the development and implementation of continuous improvements and best practice injury management processes and systems.
- Coordinate manual handling training and workstation ergonomic assessment.
- Assist in the roll out of health promotion initiatives.

**What Makes You a Great Fit**
- Relevant tertiary qualification in an allied health discipline (e.g. Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Nursing or Psychology).
- Working knowledge of Injury management procedures, practices and regulations.
- Demonstrated experience in working with the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act.
- Experience in developing and mentoring others in Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management
- Strong multi-tasking and time management skills
- Ability to communicate effectively and influence positive outcomes with key stakeholders with a strong customer focus.
- Ability to work with mínimal supervision to meet strict deadlines.
- Ability to communicate technical information to non-technical audiences.
- Valid WA Driver’s License Class ‘C’ or ‘C-A’
- Ability to travel to metropolitan and regional locations is a requirement within this role.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

- Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
- Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
- An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
- An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
- In addition to standard leave, enjoy two wellness leave days each year.
- Access to end-of-trip facilities at our Perth office, perfect for cyclists.
- On-site café available for convenient meals and refreshments throughout the day.

**Applications close 4 February 2025