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- Make an impact providing strategic leadership to deliver a high-performing injury management and workers compensation service across Austin Health

- Permanent full time opportunity, generous salary packaging and annual leave entitlements

- Flexible hybrid working from our office located at Heidelberg Repatriation Hospital and your home

Austin Health is the major provider of tertiary health services, health professional education and research across three campuses in the north-east of Melbourne and statewide. We have a highly engaged, diverse and collaborative workforce that is unified by our goal to help people live healthy and fulfilled lives.

About the Health, Safety & Wellbeing Department

The Health, Safety & Wellbeing Department sits within the People and Culture Directorate at Austin Health. Based at Repatriation Hospital and is responsible for providing advisory services, strategic direction and planning for the workforce health, safety and wellbeing across all campuses, covering approximately 11,000 employees.

Key areas of responsibility include occupational health and safety management; injury management and return to work; safety and wellbeing education and training; emergency preparedness and business continuity and the wellbeing program.

About the role

As the Workforce Injury and Recovery Manager, you will provide strategic leadership to deliver injury management and workers compensation service across Austin Health. Working closely with leaders, employees and external partners, you will drive best-practice injury management and early intervention strategies that support injured employees to safely remain at work or return to work following injury.

A regular day will see you:





- Lead and develop a high-performing team of Injury and Recovery Specialists to deliver best-practice injury management and return-to-work outcomes.
- Drive continuous improvement of workers compensation, injury management and return-to-work performance across Austin Health.
- Provide expert advice and support to leaders and employees on injury management, claims management and return-to-work matters.
- Build strong partnerships with internal stakeholders, insurers, rehabilitation providers and regulatory bodies to achieve successful claims and recovery outcomes.
- Analyse injury and claims data to identify trends, monitor performance and inform preventative strategies that reduce workplace risk.
- Ensure compliance with legislative requirements while maintaining effective policies, systems and frameworks that support early intervention and employee recovery.

About you

To be successful in this role you'll bring with you:

- Exceptional experience leading workers compensation, injury management and return-to-work programs within a complex organisation.
- A passion for supporting employee wellbeing and recovery, underpinned by contemporary injury management and early intervention practices.
- Demonstrated success leading and developing high-performing teams in a collaborative and values-driven environment.
- Strong relationship-building and influencing skills, with the ability to work effectively with leaders, employees, insurers and external partners.
- Highly developed analytical, communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate insights into meaningful organisational outcomes.

Our benefits

Working at Austin Health means enjoying a strong sense of purpose, engaging in meaningful work every day. Our people also receive a variety of rewarding benefits, including:





- Greater take-home pay through generous salary packaging, for living expenses, meals, and holiday accommodation.
- A suite of wellness initiatives designed to support you, including discounted fitness memberships and special offers on health insurance, and a comprehensive wellbeing program.
- Onsite childcare at Austin Hospital, easy access via public transport and car parking options.
- Mentoring and career development opportunities.

Work with us!

We are committed to cultural safety and health equity for Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander People. We celebrate, value, and include people of all backgrounds, genders, identities, cultures, bodies, and abilities. We welcome and support applications from talented people identifying as Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander, people with disability, neurodiverse people, LGBTQIA+ and people of all ages and cultures.

If you feel this role is right for you, we encourage your early application. Even if you don't meet every single requirement, we encourage you to apply. What matters most is your passion, your drive and your willingness to learn and contribute. Applications will be reviewed as they are received, and interviews may take place prior to the closing date. This means we reserve the right to close a job ad prior to the advertised closing date.

All appointments are made subject to a satisfactory National Police Check and if required, a Working With Children Check. Austin Health is a child safe organisation, committed to upholding the rights, safety, and wellbeing of children and young people in line with Child Protected Standards. If you require any reasonable adjustments to the recruitment process, you are welcome to reach out to the hiring manager: Will Halpin, Director Health Safety and Wellbeing, ••••@austin.org.au.

Interested in finding out more about this opportunity? Read the position description for further details.

Application closing date: Sunday 23 August 2026

📌 Manager, Workforce Injury and Recovery (Heidelberg)
🏢 Austin Health
📍 Heidelberg