Assistant Consultant, Injury Management

We are Metro South Health
We are the major public healthcare provider for Brisbane's south side, Logan, Redlands and the Scenic Rim. We operate five major hospitals and a range of community, specialty and state-wide healthcare services. We are renowned for teaching and research excellence.
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We recognise our strength comes from the diversity of our people and so we encourage people of all genders, ethnicities, ages, abilities, languages, ****** orientation and family responsibilities to apply.
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Join us at Metro South Health and be part of a world-class, dynamic and growing health service that embraces technology, excellence in health care, teaching, research and empowering our people to be the best in serving our community.
About the Role

* Consult with injured or ill workers, medical and allied health practitioners and other relevant stakeholders to drive early intervention measures in managing cases from end to end, monitoring progress and adjusting return to work plans as required to minimise the impact of injury and achieve claim goals.
* Engage with medical and allied health practitioners to plan and coordinate early, safe and sustainable return to work plans or reasonable adjustment requirements for injured/ill workers, coordinating injury management in accordance with Metro South Health policies, Work Health Safety's Injury Management procedures, regulations and Workers' Compensation and Rehabilitation Act 2003.
* Undertake case management of injured workers including regular case reviews, injury management plans in accordance with the Injury Management Model and develop requests for medical reports as required from treating or independent medical and allied health practitioners to deliver improved worker and organisational outcomes.
* Undertake Independent Medical Examination processes as directed to assist in assessing/determining an employee's ongoing fitness for duty, including redeployment and ill health retirement in collaboration with senior team members.

Find out about the role in more detail and how to apply in the attached Role Description.
Our values of Integrity, Compassion, Accountability, Respect, Engagement and Excellence, shape our culture within Metro South Health. Our values guide our day-to-day decision making and are fundamental to what we care about as a health service, how we behave, how we interact with each other and provide care to the many patients who come through our doors every day.
We offer rewarding career opportunities across a wide range of clinical and non-clinical areas across our health service and pride ourselves on providing a work environment that is safe, satisfying, flexible, and promotes a healthy work-life balance.
As a Metro South employee, you will benefit from a higher than standard employer contribution to Superannuation of up to 12.75%, access to salary packaging, flexible working arrangements and competitive salary rates with annual incremental increases.
You can find out more about why it's so great to work at Metro South here: www.metrosouth.health.qld.gov.au/join-our-team.

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