Recovery Partner

**Employment Type**: Permanent Full Time
**Position Classification**: Health Manager Level 2
**Remuneration**: $100107 - $118735 per annum
**Hours Per Week**: 38
**Requisition ID**: REQ329527
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**Description**

We're looking for an energetic and dynamic team player to join our fun, supportive and committed team. Bring your experience in return to work and injury management to an employer who looks after their staff and the community.

**Where you'll be working**

The vision for South Eastern Sydney Local Health District (SESLHD) is **_‘exceptional care, healthier lives’_**. SESLHD is committed to enabling our community to be healthy and well, and to providing the best possible compassionate care when people need it.

The Health Safety and Wellbeing team is a part of the People & Culture Directorate. You will be working in a collaborative, supportive environment with a team that is passionate about building partnerships to provide a safe work environment for our people, and promote a healthy, safety conscious culture. HSW supports the whole of the South Eastern Sydney Local Health District and as such, employees travel between sites ranging between Waterfall and the Sydney CBD.

SESLHD is committed to equal employment opportunity and embraces diversity and inclusion within its workforce. As such, people from diverse backgrounds are encouraged to apply. This includes, but is not limited to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander People, People with Disability, Women and People from Culturally and Linguistically Diverse backgrounds. Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.

**What you'll be doing**

The Recovery Partner is responsible for implementing the SESLHD return to work program, providing high level specialised and technical advice and support services for injured workers as they recover at work, and assisting SESLHD to meet their obligations as required under the workers compensation legislation to achieve business and service objectives.

The Recovery Partner is a key link between the worker and their support team as they recover. Recovery Partners also assist workers with a workers compensation or a non-compensable injury, to recover at work.
- Provide high level specialised & support services to injured employees as they recover at work following work related and non-work related injury and/or illness.
- Assist SESLHD meet our obligations under the workers compensation and industrial legislation & to achieve business & service objectives.
- Act as a key link between our employees & their support team as they recover from injury & illness. Including but not limited to: initiating early contact with workers & their recovery team, developing & monitoring effective return to work plans under medical guidance & standardised recovery time frames, conducting medical case conferences, undertaking workplace visits.
- Maintain comprehensive file records in accordance with SESLHD & legislative requirements.
- Developing & maintaining effective working relationships with service providers, business units/service lines, unions, fund manager & team members.
- Collaborate with the Health Safety & Wellbeing Team & customers groups to identify strategies for prevention of injury & identify continuous improvement opportunities in injury management procedure & policy.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We encourage people from different backgrounds to apply._
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing._
- All NSW Health workers are required to have completed a primary course of a COVID-19 vaccine which has been approved or recognised by the Therapeutics Goods Administration (TGA). New applicants must have completed the vaccination course prior to commencement with NSW Health, or provide an approved medical contraindication certificate certifying the worker cannot have any approved COVID-19 vaccines available in NSW._
- Acceptable proof of vaccination is the Australian Immunisation Register (AIR) Immunisation History Statement or AIR COVID-19 Digital Certificate. Booster doses are highly recommended for all health care workers who have completed the primary course of COVID-19 vaccinations. Please provide proof of booster vaccination if available._

**Selection Criteria**
- Relevant qualifications in occupational recovery at work case management, including SIRA Return to Work Co-ordination accreditation and/or SIRA exemption, or related discipline or relevant equivalent work experience, or a combination of study and work experience
- Demonstrated high level anal