Injury Prevention and Health Specialist

The Opportunity

This role is a 6 month fixed term contract 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 Western Australia 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 claims agent 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)
  
  

A Veolia Career

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

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