Rehabilitation and Return to Work Consultant

Human Resources are looking for a Rehabilitation and Return to Work Consultant to join their team. Human Resources within Addiction and Mental Health Services provides a range of HR and injury management related services to management and staff.

Metro South Health is Australia's first digital health service and one of the largest in Queensland, with an estimated residential population of approximately one million people or 23 per cent of Queensland's population.  

This is your opportunity to join the dedicated team of professionals at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.

About the Role
The purpose of the role is to provide comprehensive work related and non-work-related injury and illness management for Addiction and Mental Health staff.

• Provide comprehensive and expert injury management education and consultancy services to Workers, divisional management, and executives, providing quality and cost-effective injury management solutions to facilitate safe and sustainable outcomes for workers participating in return-to-work programs.
• Deliver and implement divisional injury management initiatives by collaborating with all managers and leaders.
• Consult with injured or ill workers, medical and allied health practitioners, and other relevant stakeholders to drive early intervention measures in managing complex cases from end to end, monitoring progress and adjusting Return to Work plans as required to minimise the impact of injury and achieve claim goals.
• Build and maintain effective and productive relationships at divisional level with managers and leaders and contribute to improved rehabilitation service delivery, tailored strategies, and targets. 

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.

Our ICARE² values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.

We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.

As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.

You can find out more about why it's so great to Work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ( http://www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team ).