Injury Prevention & Health Specialist

Veolia Environmental Services; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Fuel card

Flexible working arrangements

Varied role - office and field

Job summary

Veolia Australia and New Zealand is hiring an Injury Prevention & Health Specialist in Sydney to support injured employees returning to work and to provide health and hygiene compliance guidance to management. The role includes contributing to health initiatives, training, monitoring, investigation, and continuous improvement across a national team.

You will engage with internal teams, external clients, and labour hire to ensure injuries are managed and workers return to suitable duties.

Qualifications

• Extensive industry experience in a similar role and solid knowledge of WA workers' compensation legislation.
• Formal Return to Work Coordinator (RTW) qualification is desirable.
• Graduate qualifications in a health-related field (e.g., physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise science, health management, nursing) are desirable.

Responsibilities

• Assist injured employees to return to work and coordinate with internal operational teams and Veolia's self-insurance team to achieve outcomes.
• Manage the WA workers' compensation portfolio.
• Design and implement injury prevention and wellbeing strategies based on health risk factor reduction.
• Quality review of risk-based pre-employment and periodic medical assessments.
• Identify and report on key health and wellbeing risk factors.

Skills

RTW coordination

Health & safety

Injury prevention

Employee support

Education

Health degree

RTW qualification (des.)

Job description

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Title: Injury Prevention & Health Specialist

Location: Sydney, NSW, AU, 2000

The Opportunity

This is a permanent full-time role where you will be responsible for supporting injured employees to return to work, and provide health and hygiene compliance support and advice to operational management. You will facilitate injury prevention programs, physical and mental health initiatives and maximise company health management performance through engagement, training, monitoring, investigation and continuous improvement.

Although you will support our NSW business, you will work as part of a broader national Injury Prevention & Health team.

What's on offer

Attractive remuneration + car allowance and fuel card

Flexible working arrangements including working from home

Varied role (office based and field-based)

Diverse work portfolio

Opportunity to work with our top tier clients in WA

What you'll be responsible for

Assisting injured employees to return to work following injuries, and the ability to work with internal operational teams and the Veolia self-insurance team to achieve a successful outcome. Working with our external clients and labour hire organisations to ensure injuries are effectively managed once reported and employees return to work on suitable duties plans

Management of the WA workers compensation portfolio

Designing, coordinating and implementing specific strategies in injury prevention and wellbeing based on health risk factor reduction

Quality review of specific risk-based pre-employment and periodic medical assessments

Identify and report on key risk factors related to employee health and wellbeing

What you'll need to be successful

Extensive industry experience in a similar position and comprehensive working knowledge and understanding of WA workers compensation legislation

Formal Return to Work Coordinator (RTW) qualification (desired)

Graduate qualifications in a Health related field such as physiotherapy, occupational therapy, exercise science, health management, nursing (desired)

Why Veolia?

Veolia Australia and New Zealand values employees and their health and wellbeing. All of our employees are entitled to:

A proactive Employee Assistance Program (EAP) (Thrive, by Assure Programs) which covers mental health, nutrition, financial, legal, coaching and career transition support for you and your immediate family members

At Veolia we value diversity, equality and inclusion, we are committed to providing working environments where everyone is included and treated fairly and with respect.

We encourage people of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander descent and people from diverse backgrounds to apply.

Our environmental solutions help customers preserve and renew our natural resources, creating a better future for our planet. Here, you’ll have the opportunity to build your career, and a more sustainable world.