Injury Prevention & Health Specialist

Veolia; Sydney; Hybrid; AUD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Car allowance

Fuel card

Flexible working from home

Job summary

Veolia Australia and New Zealand invites applications for a permanent full-time Injury Prevention & Health role. You will support injured employees to return to work, provide health and hygiene compliance advice to management, and lead injury prevention and wellbeing initiatives across NSW while aligning with a national team.

You will engage with internal and external stakeholders, design risk-based health programs, and monitor outcomes to improve health management performance.

Qualifications

• Extensive industry experience in a similar RTW/health role.
• Comprehensive WA workers' compensation knowledge.
• RTW qualification is desirable.
• Graduate health qualification is desirable.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Injury prevention

RTW coordination

Health management

Education

Physiotherapy

Occupational therapy

Exercise science

Health management

Nursing

Job description

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.

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
• Bupa health insurance discount

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.

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