Consultant

Lead Smarter, Safer Return to Work Strategies!

Join Metro South Health as an Injury Management Consultant and combine complex case management, stakeholder engagement and strategic advice to improve workplace health outcomes!

About your role

As a Consultant, Injury Management, you'll provide expert advice and case management to support workers experiencing work-related and non-work-related injury or illness.

• Manage complex injury and illness cases from early intervention through to sustainable return to work.
• Develop tailored rehabilitation and return to work plans in collaboration with workers, managers and treating practitioners.
• Provide high-level advice, coaching and education to managers and leaders on injury prevention and management.
• Analyse injury, WorkCover and workforce data to identify risks and develop targeted mitigation strategies.

About you

You're an experienced injury management or rehabilitation professional with strong knowledge of workers' compensation, return to work practices and relevant legislation.

• Demonstrated experience managing complex workers' compensation and injury management cases.
• Strong knowledge of rehabilitation, return to work principles, legislation and injury management practices.
• Highly developed communication, consultation and influencing skills across diverse stakeholders.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to develop practical risk mitigation strategies.
• Ability to work autonomously while collaborating effectively with managers, clinicians and multidisciplinary teams

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What we can offer you:

• We offer a family-friendly work environment that supports you in making the most of Queensland's laid-back lifestyle.
• We are renowned for teaching and research excellence with strong relations with Queensland's leading tertiary institutions.
• We want to empower you to build a long-term career, with countless opportunities to learn and grow, no matter your role
• You'll have all the benefits of working for Queensland's world-class public health system including generous leave entitlements, attractive salary and remuneration packages, salary packaging and access to relevant professional development allowances and/or leave, study and research assistance, corporate discounts and employee wellness programs.

Princess Alexandra Hospital:

The Princess Alexandra Hospital (PAH) is a tertiary health care centre providing care in most major adult specialties. We provide world class health care to Brisbane City's southern suburbs across emergency, medical, mental health and surgical services, including liver and kidney transplant.

We are nationally recognised for our expertise in trauma management and organ transplants and are one of Australia's leading academic and research health centres. The PAH as a major medical research precinct hosts Australia's most advanced medical research facility, the Translational Research Institute (TRI) as well as a new Clinical Research Facility for the discoveries made at TRI to be trialed in a safe clinical environment.

We're expanding our hospital to make sure everyone gets the care they need. We're adding more beds, modernising our buildings, and improving our spaces to treat kidney and cancer patients with all new services and facilities planned to open by 2027.

INTEGRITY | COMPASSION | ACCOUNTABILITY | RESPECT | ENGAGEMENT | EXCELLENCE

Our values were created by employees for employees to shape our culture and inspire positive interactions in the workplace. Diversity of ideas, skills, traditions, and customs is celebrated as one of our greatest strengths. Having a workforce that reflects and understands the needs and expectations of our community is important to delivering safe, kinder, and more inclusive care.

We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, sexual orientation, and family responsibilities to apply.

We are better together.