Advisor

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Key duties and responsibilities

Within the legislative framework of the Work Health and Safety Act 2011 and Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003 key responsibilities of this role include:

Assist local management and staff in the case management of work-related and non-work-related employee injuries liaising with insurers, medical practitioners and the workplace to achieve best practice in injury management and early return to work outcomes.

Engage with the injured/ill employee, their medical practitioners, insurers and the workplace to develop suitable duty plans to support workplace rehabilitation.,

Where Workplaces rehabilitation has not been successful assist local management and work with all stakeholders to examine options and follow departmental processes such as Reasonable Adjustment, redeployment, Voluntary Medical Retirement, Independent Medical Examinations and ill-health retirements.

Have knowledge of the department's available staff and management supports such as and availability of critical incident support, employee assistance service, manager assist service and specialist counselling services and refer employees to these supports.

Support management in the investigation of workplace incidents, the development of supervisor responses to injury reports and the employer responses for specific workers' compensation claims (statutory claims, common law claims).

Provide local management and staff SWIM incident and injury trends and analysis and performance reports on a regular basis and investigate specific incidents (critical and/or workplace incidents and injuries).

Support local management with annual safety inspections, ongoing monitoring and reviewing of local workplaces and work practices, risk assessments and safety planning and identification of high-risk activities or issues.

Assist local management and staff establish and maintain SWIM consultation and advisory groups in local offices to ensure SWIM matters are proactively monitored and addressed.

Assist local management and staff deliver, broker and/or ensure that specific SWIM training, education, awareness sessions are undertaken at the workplace.

Recognising and contributing to the AS&RS Governance Structure, supporting quality outcomes for staff and clients through the delivery of quality services and continuous improvement.

Delegations

The position does not hold any human resource and financial delegations.

Applications to remain current for 12 months.This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Australia License.