Manager - Workers Compensation & Injury Management

2 days ago

Melbourne, Australia Austin Health Full time

Location: Melbourne | Northern Metropolitan

Job type: Not provided

Organisation: Austin Health

**Salary**: Salary not specified

Occupation: Administration/Secretarial, Human Resources, Legal, Occupational Health and Safety

Reference: 44686
- Full time, permanent role
- Heidelberg location

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across 3 campuses in the northeast of Melbourne and state-wide. We employ approximately 9,500 staff and have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

The Manager, Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management is a key senior leadership position responsible for the continuous improvement of an efficient claims and injury management service across all Austin Health workplaces._ _This includes;
- Building capability and supporting our people leaders at Austin Health to sustain injured employees in the workplace safely, manage the safe return of injured employees to pre injury duties effectively;
- Ensuring injured employees receive the very best early intervention and injury management services.
- Working strategically with our workers compensation insurer to ensure a strategic and systematic approach to delivery of services; and
- Ensuring Austin Health meets legislative compliance in workers compensation management and return to work practice

**Ideally, you’ll have**:

- Minimum five years demonstrated working knowledge and experience with the Victorian Workers’ Compensation scheme in claims management and injury management
- Proven ability to build and maintain effective key stakeholder relationships at all levels, with both internal and external groups
- People leadership experience in supporting a team in the delivery of exceptional return to work and injury management outcomes

**About Workforce Health Safety and Wellness**

The Workforce Health Safety and Wellness Department sits within the People and Culture Division. We support all tiers of Austin Health leadership and operations to ensure the greatest possible health, safety and wellbeing outcomes for all our employees. This includes the provision of exemplary early intervention and return to work practice to ensure injured employees promptly receive the very best care and supported back to work as soon as possible. Austin Health prides itself as leaders in the provision of health, safety, wellbeing and injury management services.

**Our benefits**:
Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:

- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging
- Generous leave entitlements
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounts on fitness memberships and health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program
- Mentoring and career development opportunities
- Car parking and end of journey facilities for cyclists

**Inclusion at Austin**:
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