Injury Management and Wellbeing Partner

Company Description

You may not have heard of Bapcor, but you will know our brands.

Our businesses – including Burson, Autobarn, Midas, Truckline, BNT and JAS – are inside cars, on four-wheel drives and all over trucks.

We are an ASX listed company whose business spans the end-to-end aftermarket supply chain covering trade, retail, networks and service.

In joining our team, you’ll be welcomed into a supportive business with more than 900 locations and 5,000 team members across Australia, New Zealand and Thailand.

We are committed to creating a safe, inclusive environment where our people can thrive and do their best work.

We’re also passionate about our delivering for our customers, and living our values of:

• We do the right thing
• We are in it together
• We give a damn
• We get it done

Job Description

We are seeking an experienced Injury Management and Wellbeing Partner to join our Health, Safety & Wellbeing team.

This role is ideal for someone who enjoys building capability, influencing stakeholders and improving systems and outcomes. While wellbeing forms an important part of this role, the primary focus is the leadership and continual improvement of our workers compensation, injury management and return-to-work programs across Australia.

Reporting to the Head of Health, Safety & Wellbeing, and with one direct report, you will have the opportunity to build on our existing programs with key internal and external stakeholders, to improve our claims performance, return-to-work outcomes, and leader capability across our Australian operations.

Key Responsibilities

• Design, implement and evaluate injury management, early intervention and wellbeing programs that improve employee outcomes and reduce both business and workers compensation costs.
• Lead claims governance and strategy reviews with insurers, brokers and rehabilitation providers to improve claim duration, cost outcomes and sustainable return-to-work performance
• Ensure injury management and return-to-work strategies across Australian operations, ensuring timely, consistent and sustainable outcomes.
• Provide specialist advice and coaching to leaders on workers compensation obligations, injury management and return-to-work practices.
• Develop and monitor individual return-to-work plans and support leaders to implement suitable duties and early intervention strategies.
• Lead, coach and develop a direct report, building capability, accountability and consistency across injury management, return-to-work and wellbeing activities nationally.
• Analyse claims and injury data to identify trends, risks and improvement opportunities, providing meaningful insights and recommendations to the business.