Manager, Workforce Injury and Recovery

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• Make an impact supporting our people in this key leadership position 

• Full time, 12-month fixed term opportunity (parental leave cover) commencing June 2025

• Flexible hybrid working from our office at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and home 

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

About the Health, Safety and Wellness Department 

The Health, Safety and Wellness department is responsible for providing advisory services, strategic direction and planning for the workforce health, safety and wellness across all Austin Health campuses. Key areas of responsibility include occupational health and safety management, injury recovery and return to work, workforce immunisation, safety and wellbeing education and training, and the wellbeing program. 

About the role

As the Manager, Workforce Injury & Recovery, you will be responsible for the continuous improvement of an efficient claims and injury management service across all Austin Health workplaces.

A regular day will see you: 

• Building capability for our people leaders to support injured employees to remain in the workplace safely, and 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.  

• Ensuring Austin Health meets legislative compliance in workers compensation management and return to work practice.

About you 

To be successful in this role, you’ll being with you: 

• Sound knowledge of the respective legislative frameworks and of contemporary workforce injury management practice 

• Highly developed analytical, technical and innovative problem solving skills that result in value-add, pragmatic and effective solutions. 

• Demonstrated relationship management skills with internal and external stakeholders, including regulatory authorities. 

• Strong influencing and interpersonal skills, as well as high levels of initiative. 

• Highly developed organisation skills including the ability to prioritise work, meet strict deadlines, and review potential risk areas. 

• Excellent verbal and written communications skills, with experience interacting with a broad range of stakeholders at all levels of the organisation. 

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 for living expenses, meals and holiday accommodation

• 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 

• Onsite childcare, easy access via public transport and car parking options.

Work with us! 

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People.  We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures. 

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date. 

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process or have questions about this opportunity, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager – Will Halpin (Director, Health, Safety and Wellness), will.halpin@austin.org.au  

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.  

Application closing date: Monday 23 June 2025