Injury Management Advisor

• Team discount at Bunnings and other Wesfarmers brands including Kmart, Target and Officeworks to name a few

• Free standard OnePass membership

• Access to over 100+ exclusive team member benefits across health, shopping, travel and stay, wealth, work and leave

• 12 weeks paid parental leave, regardless of gender

• Fun stuff like annual festive gifts, discounted food and drinks at our Bunnings Cafe, and travelling store team member opportunities

• We’re genuinely invested in your career and no matter where you start with us, that pathway is yours to build

As an Injury Management Advisor, you are responsible for facilitating, promoting, and coaching injury management best practice with a strong focus on supporting our injured team members in their recovery, stay at or return to work journey.

This role is a hybrid role where you be working from our support office, attending and working from our sites, some regional, as well as having the opportunity to work from home.

• Provide early and ongoing injury management support to our injured team members and ensure we are meeting our workers compensation legislative requirements and uphold best practice injury management principles
• Provide cross national support for workers compensation injury claims
• Be the key point of contact to our insurer, our injured team members, their site leaders, and medical team to coordinate, monitor and support progressive return to work strategies and positive claim outcomes
• Facilitating return to work meetings, medical case conferences and claims reviews to negotiate effective recovery and claims outcomes
• Follow injury management policies and procedures in line with legislative requirements and the injury management self-insurance audit program

Our ideal candidate will have a background in an allied health or a medical related field. You will be passionate about all things safety and injury management and have a genuine care for injured team.

You’ll be a self-starter with a customer centric approach and the ability to influence and problem solve with a range of both internal and external stakeholders.

• Tertiary qualifications in allied health with experience in injury management
• Previous experience managing complex injuries within a very fast paced environment
• Previous experience in Occupational Rehabilitation (desirable)
• Knowledge and advanced understanding of self-insured workers compensation and injury management legislation in NSW/ACT (desirable)
• Strong planning, organisation, negotiation, conflict resolution, and interpersonal skills
• Ability to maintain effective partnerships (specifically external - insurers/ regulators)
• Proficient computer literacy across the Microsoft Suite

Bunnings is the leading retailer of home improvement and lifestyle products in Australia and New Zealand. We're proud to support project builders, commercial tradespeople and the housing industry through our network of stores, trade centres, frame and truss sites and online.

At Bunnings, our purpose is simple: we’re here to inspire people to have a red hot go! Whether that's backing our team to grow, supporting customers to take on new projects, or helping communities make a real difference. By joining our passionate and diverse team, you will be part of a culture that encourages you to roll up your sleeves and build something great together. If you’re ready to have a go, apply today.

Please note if you are offered a role with us, background checks may be required. This can include police, employment, medical and qualification checks. If a police check search returns a criminal record, Bunnings will assess whether the record impacts your ability to perform the key requirements of the role.