Injury Management & Prevention Business Partner

• Location: Melbourne CBD              
• Vacancy Type: Permanent, full-time     
• Job reference: 494579    

Are you seeking a role that will allow you to use your extraordinary Injury Management & Prevention Business Partner experience? If so, this is your job.

The Injury Management & Prevention (IM&P) Business Partner will work as part of the Health, Safety and Wellbeing (HSW) team with prime focus around injury management and prevention activities including Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) education and training.

This position is located in Head Office, however travel to other Yooralla locations is required.

To be successful in this role you’ll share Yooralla’s values.

Key Responsibilities

Specific Role Responsibilities:

• Lead the review
• Develop and Implement Injury Prevention Programs
• Injury Management and Rehabilitation
• Facilitate Return to Work
• Compliance and Regulatory Adherence
• Training and Education
• Data Analysis and Reporting
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement
• Benchmarking and Best Practices
• Participate and Drive
• Lead and facilitate
• Handling Confidential Information
• Developing, implementing, and evaluating wellbeing programs
• Health Promotion Campaigns

All employees are responsible for:

• Promoting and protecting the human rights of people with disability, in accordance with the UN Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) (2008);
• Working to ensure high-quality and safe supports and services for NDIS participants,
  meeting and exceeding the NDIS Practice Standards and
  Quality Indicators;
• Meeting obligations under all relevant Victorian and Commonwealth legislation;
• Working in accordance with the Yooralla Code of Conduct and Employee Manual;
• Support a risk aware culture by proactively identifying and reporting risk
• Identify, manage and monitor risks within their area and support a risk aware culture where staff actively identify and report risks.

Mandatory Requirements:

• Current VIC Return to Work Coordinator certification
• International Police Check (if required)
• NDIS Worker Screening Check
• Current driver’s licence to drive in Australia

Professional Experience

• Proven experience (typically 5+ years) in occupational health and safety, injury prevention, or related fields. With experience in managing psychosocial related injuries.
• Experience in developing and implementing injury prevention programs and initiatives within an organizational setting.
• Experience in managing workers’ compensation claims and return-to-work programs.
• Ability to interpret and apply workers compensation legislative standards and compensation insurance schemes as they apply to organisational claims management and rehabilitation initiatives.
• Experience with accident investigation practices and procedures.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to effectively collaborate with stakeholders at all levels of the organization.

Personal Skills and Attributes

• Highly developed interpersonal, verbal and written communication skills
• Ability to effectively lead the coordination of workers compensation claims management processes
• Ability to work within a team autonomously
• Highly proficient in the use of technology
• Commitment to promoting a culture of safety and wellness within the organization
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to maintain confidentiality and handle sensitive information

Sound like you?

Click ‘Apply Now’ below. If you have any questions, please contact Samantha Cucuzza (Health, Safety & Wellbeing Manager), [email protected] or HR at [email protected] using the subject line: Injury Management & Prevention Business Partner enquiry via EthicalJobs.

Our culture

At Yooralla, you’ll work at Victoria’s most established and recognised for purpose disability service provider with more than 100 years of experience offering high quality support services to people with disability. We work in partnership with adults and children, their families and carers to enable them to live the lives they choose. 

We believe in diversity, inclusion and equality and are committed to ensuring that our workplaces are a reflection of the Victorian community. We recognise the benefits that diversity and inclusion brings, and in turn encourage talented people from all backgrounds, abilities and identities to apply to our vacancies. We strongly encourage people with disability, LGBTQIA+ and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islands People to apply.

Find out more about our work culture and what we do.

A position description is attached.