Principal Consultant - Workers Compensation

Advertised Vacancy Number: DOE892574

This is a permanent full-time position commencing in June 2024.

Professional Benefits

• 11 percent employer contributions to superannuation
• More than 20 days of other leave, including sick leave and carers’ leave

The Role and our Branch

The Employee Relations branch is seeking to appoint a highly motivated Principal Consultant - Workers' Compensation to join their team.

The Employee Relations Directorate is responsible for ensuring that industrial instruments and legislative frameworks are complied with and that employees are supported in a range of discrete human resource matters. The Directorate is made up of two branches: Labour Relations and Employee Support Bureau. It provides strategic and operational advice to the Minister, Director General, school leaders and line managers on a range of employee relations matters.

We encourage all applicants with diverse professional experiences to apply.

The successful applicant will develop, implement, review and report on workers’ compensation programs and procedures and liaise with management, Directors, Principals and schools in relation to complex and difficult Workers Compensation issues. The Principal Consultant will at a system level, investigate and research complex and difficult workers’ compensation matters in regions, schools and central office, and develop strategies for their management. The successful applicant establishes and communications networks and provides input into negotiations with Insurance Commission of Western Australia, Workcover Western Australia, State Solicitors Office and external stakeholders.  The Principal Consultant will be responsible for managing a team during a period of legislative with the introduction of the new Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act in July 2024.

Cultural Diversity

The Department is an equal opportunity employer and encourages people with disability, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and persons from culturally diverse backgrounds to apply.

Your written application will be assessed against the following Selection Criteria:

1. Demonstrated extensive skills and experience in managing workers’ compensation and injury management issues in a large organisation.
2. Demonstrated highly developed negotiation, advocacy and conflict resolution skills, including the ability to influence and achieve outcomes.
3. Demonstrated highly developed verbal, written and interpersonal communication skills, including the ability to communicate effectively and build high-level cross-sectoral relationships.
4. Demonstrated substantival skills and experience in providing high-level advice, management, professional development and strategic direction in effectively dealing with change.
5. Demonstrated highly developed conceptual and analytical skills, with the ability to provide innovative thinking in problem solving.
6. Demonstrated highly developed policy development skills.

For a full outline of the role responsibilities and selection criteria, please refer to the JDF.

It is recommended that you consider all information contained in the advertisement and any other related information before applying for the vacancy.

All inquiries are welcomed

Application Instructions

All applications are submitted online. Select “Apply for Job”, at either the top or bottom of this screen and follow all instructions. It is recommended you have relevant documents completed and ready to attach with your online application. Please allow enough time to complete this process as applications must be received prior to the closing date and time.

Your application should include:

• A two (2) page statement addressing the selection criteria listed above, in context of the role and business needs of the branch
• A CV of up to three (3) pages outlining your employment history and professional learning summary relevant to this position
• The contact details for two (2) work related referees who can attest to the claims made in your written application, preferably one being your current line manager.

After you have submitted your application online, you will receive an email confirming lodgement. If you do not receive a confirmation email, please phone (08) 9264 4***.

If you are having     difficulty submitting your online application, please phone (08) 9264 86***for assistance.

Eligibility and Training Requirements

Employees will be required to:

• provide evidence of eligibility to work in Australia for the term of the vacancy
• complete the Department’s induction program within three months of commencement
• complete the Department’s training in Accountable and Ethical Decision-Making within six months of appointment and every three years thereafter.
• complete the Department’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural awareness online course within 3 months of commencement
• complete any training specific to this role required by Departmental policy
• consent to a Nationally Coordinated Criminal History Check and obtain a current Screening Clearance Number issued by the Department of Education’s Screening Unit prior to commencement of employment

The Department applies a four (4) day breach period to this selection process.

Applications must be submitted before 4.30pm (WST) on Friday, 17 May 2024.

Lodgement is system generated. Any submissions at, or after, 4:30pm will not be accepted.   

APPLICATIONS MUST BE SUBMITTED ONLINE

PROFORMA, FAXED, HAND DELIVERED, POSTED, EMAILED AND LATE APPLICATIONS ARE NOT ACCEPTED

This selection process will initially be used to fill the above vacancy. Applicants assessed as suitable during this selection process may be considered for other similar vacancies that occur throughout our division for up to 12 months following this initial appointment. This includes circumstances where this position becomes subsequently vacant should the successful applicant decline or vacate the advertised position.