- Permanent opportunity - Sydney Location
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Actively engage in supporting our team during a vulnerable time in their lives to facilitate return to work
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Partner with key stakeholders and own your own portfolio in this strategic role
Welcome to Woolworths 360
We’re the national team of 5,000 bright minds designing, developing and innovating the retail stores of the future across construction, operations, sustainability, data, refrigeration, and everything in between. United by a passion for bringing fresh food and great experiences to our customers every day, our ‘Best in, Better out’ mentality guides our decisions and puts customers at the heart of all we do. Every day we’re reimagining and reinventing our stores, innovating new fulfillment processes, and developing simpler, smarter and more sustainable solutions to future proof our network and fight for a healthier planet.
The Opportunity
As an Injury Care Partner, you'll guide Team Members through their recovery, delivering best-practice injury management, rehabilitation, and return-to-work strategies. Own your portfolio and caseload that includes early intervention and workers' compensation claims, collaborating with Line Leaders, our TPA, and healthcare providers to lead return-to-work plans and support stakeholders in achieving positive outcomes.
What you’ll do
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Partner with relevant stakeholders to drive strategies and ensure early engagement in treatment, claims management, return to work, redeployment and claim closure with our TPA
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Engage with operational teams to provide training and mentoring in managing return to work and relevant legislative compliance
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Provide support to operational teams in resolving injury management issues and in developing strategies for improvement and intervention
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Focus on the management of a RTW portfolio to ensure they continue to meet legislative and self-insurance obligations and coordination of audits on return to work files
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Maintain regular engagement and develop strong partnerships with relevant stakeholders including; Third Party Administrator, FPES, Rehabilitation Providers, Treating Health Professionals, etc.
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Prepare weekly and monthly reports to your internal stakeholders aligned to our metrics and performance
What you’ll bring
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Minimum of 3 years experience in the field of workers’ compensation and injury management, specifically in claims management end-to-end, and ideally with some exposure to self-insurance
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Allied health qualifications will be very highly regarded (OT, EP, Physio)
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Deep understanding of return to work and rehabilitation best practices, able to devise and adapt strategies for individuals based on medical and workplace information
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Solid understanding of workers’ compensation self-insurance regimes, requirements and practices
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Demonstrated ability to run injury management and return to work matters end-to-end
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Knowledge of creating and implementing sound strategic workers compensation and injury care practices and comfort in working independently on casework, in a team of supportive peers and leaders
What you’ll experience
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A global business with endless career possibilities around every corner and across every discipline – with valuable exposure to a vast and exciting business network.
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Access to Sonder. Sonder provides free confidential 24/7 personalised financial, medical safety, psychological or physical support for team members and their families.
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A progressive and competitive leave policy that gives you more space for what matters to you.
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Team discounts across our range of Woolworths Group brands you know and love and a robust rewards program that celebrates and incentivises purpose-driven work.
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Opportunity to Salary Sacrifice, enabling team members to purchase selected eligible items or services from pre-tax salary. Can be used for novated leases, superannuation contributions, Qantas Club membership, computing devices etc.
Endless possibilities with Woolworths Group
We’re a proud part of the Woolworths Group – 200,000+ bright minds, passionate hearts and unique perspectives working together connected by a shared Purpose – ‘to create better experiences together for a better tomorrow.’
Here you’ll be supported and empowered to explore new ideas, make brave commitments and innovate better ways to meet the food and everyday needs of more than 24 million customers every week. Backed by a culture of genuine care, a flexible approach to work and the support to grow your career and make a meaningful impact, the possibilities for what we can achieve together are endless.
Everyone belongs at Woolworths Group
Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging are key to realising our purpose of better together for a better tomorrow. We recognise the value our team’s diversity brings to our business, customers, and communities and that teams with diverse experiences and backgrounds enrich our group and are better able to innovate and solve problems. As one of the largest employers in Australia and New Zealand, we aim to create a truly inclusive workplace where everyone feels that they belong, can be their best selves, and reach their full potential.
We encourage all candidates to apply; please let us know in your application if we can support you with any adjustments in the hiring process.
