Rehabilitation Consultant - Psychologist

As a Rehabilitation Consultant (Psychology) at Beneco, you will play a crucial role in supporting individuals to recover from psychological injuries to rebuild their capacity, restore their confidence, and return to meaningful work and daily life.

Sitting within our Workplace Rehabilitation team and reporting to one of our Rehabilitation Leads, you will manage a diverse caseload across Workers Compensation (NSW), Compulsory Third Party (CTP), and Workplace Health and Safety (WHS) streams. Your clinical work will draw on your expertise across a range of assessment and intervention types, including:

- Psychological Functional Assessments
- Secondary psychological capacity evaluations
- Workplace assessments
- Vocational Counselling
- Workplace facilitated discussions/mediations.

You will also need to build and maintain strong working relationships with referrers, employers, insurers, treating practitioners, and other allied health professionals.

Key focus areas include:

- Managing an active caseload across Workers Compensation, CTP, and WHS referral streams, with a focus on psychological injury and recovery.
- Conducting and documenting high-quality psychological assessments and developing return-to-work and recovery plans tailored to each individual.
- Building genuine stakeholder relationships with referrers, employers, treating psychologists, psychiatrists, and insurers.
- Contributing to team quality and compliance standards, including file accuracy, SLA adherence, peer review, and recover-at-work planning.
- Generating customer feedback and contributing to continuous improvement across the service.

THE SPECIFICS

Location: Rhodes (Head Office)

Working Arrangements: Hybrid - combination of client sites, home, and office-based work

Employment Type: Full-time Permanent

Salary: Competitive; commensurate with experience

Start Date: Negotiable

THE PERSON

We are looking for a psychologist who brings genuine skill, strong interpersonal judgement,



and a real commitment to the people on their caseload. The right person for this role will bring:

Experience

- Beneco are open to those with demonstrated industry exposure, or to new grads! Candidates holding provisional registration may be considered where an appropriate supervision arrangement can be confirmed.
- Demonstrated ability to manage an active caseload independently, with strong case formulation, organisation, and attention to documentation quality.
- Confidence engaging clearly & professionally with a broad range of stakeholders, including referrers, employers, treating practitioners, and insurers.
- Familiarity with Workers Compensation frameworks, SLA-driven environments, and the expectations of insurance and self-insured employer clients is highly regarded.

Formal Qualifications

Candidates must meet the following qualification requirements:

- A minimum four-year Australian Psychology Accreditation Council (APAC) accredited psychology degree
- AND one of the following pathways to registration:
- A fifth year of accredited study plus a supervised internship; or
- A Master's or Doctorate in Psychology - e.g. Clinical, Organisational, or Counselling Psychology.
- Current AHPRA registration and listing with the Psychology Board of Australia. General registration is required.

Candidates must also hold all of the following:

- National Police Check (current)
- Working With Children Check (current)
- Current First Aid Certificate
- Current CPR Certificate
- A full, current driver's licence and access to a reliable vehicle

Values and Ways of Working





We are looking for someone who naturally works the way we do at Beneco:

- Collaborates openly: shares knowledge, asks for help, and gives it generously, including across disciplines.
- Acts with integrity: is honest with clients, referrers, colleagues, and themselves.
- Leads the way: takes initiative, brings curiosity to their clinical practice, and is always looking to improve.
- Cares: genuinely, for the people on their caseload, for their teammates, and for the quality of their work.

THE TEAM & THE LEADERSHIP

You will join a close-knit team that spans multiple allied health disciplines, including occupational therapy, physiotherapy, exercise physiology, and rehabilitation counselling -creating a genuinely multidisciplinary environment where psychological expertise is valued and integrated into broader case management approaches.

This role offers meaningful cross-functional exposure across Beneco's full suite of service streams, giving you visibility of the broader business and the opportunity to build relationships across disciplines and geographies.

WHY BENECO

At Beneco, we support people throughout their recovery from injury or illness, helping them return to good health so they can live productive, balanced lives. Our team brings decades of experience across the rehabilitation space, working alongside businesses, individuals, and their families to improve the quality of care and the outcomes that matter most.

What we offer:

- Great Place to Work Certified: recognised as one of Australia's Excellent Workplaces, ranking #10 in the Small Business category.
- 26 weeks paid parental leave for Primary Caregivers after 3 years tenure
- Genuine progression pathways and genuine investment in your development
- A multidisciplinary, knowledgeable, and supportive team environment
- Flexibility that works. We trust our people to deliver and support them to do it in a way that fits them.

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📌 Rehabilitation Consultant - Psychologist (Sydney)
🏢 Beneco
📍 Sydney