Principal Consultant

Job Description

We’re currently on the lookout for a Rehabilitation Consultant to deliver workplace injury prevention and rehabilitation solutions.  Achieve real outcomes and long-lasting impact as you enable individuals and organisations to achieve sustainable return to work goals.

What’s in it for you?

• A supportive and friendly team environment
• Flexibility to structure your day, WFH and work a compressed 9-day fortnight
• Ongoing training, career progression and professional development opportunities
• An extremely  generous incentive program
• Paid parental leave, up to 16 weeks, and opportunity to purchase additional leave
• All the perks offered by APM - a multinational conglomerate. You’ll have access to the Fitness Passport Program plus discounts at hundreds of retail outlets.

In this role, you will:

• Use your specialist knowledge and skills to help people return to meaningful employment
• Work as part of a multidisciplinary team of allied health professionals, delivering services and advice to a variety of industries across the entire employee lifecycle
• Evaluate the treatment and/or rehabilitation needs of workers who have been involved in a work-related or non-work-related injury or illness
• Support clients to identify future employment or training options
• Perform assessments in your area of clinical expertise – including functional capacity evaluations, worksite, ergonomic or daily living assessments
• Case management to plan, coordinate and monitor client progress toward their return-to-work goals
• Engage with key stakeholders and develop strong relationships that drive successful partnerships

What you’ll bring to the role

• The care and compassion you have for people
• Your focus on exceptional client care
• Your ability to adapt and work with a variety of clients across a range of tasks
• Your capacity to work independently or as part of a team
• Your enthusiasm for new opportunities and ongoing learning
• Your commitment to being part of a collaborative and supportive team

You’ll also need to have:

• Professional registration with AHPRA or ESSA as an EP
• Exposure to Occupational Rehabilitation
• Tertiary qualifications in Occupational Therapy, Exercise Physiology or Physiotherapy
• A current Working with Children Check
• Willingness to undergo a National Criminal History Check upon successful application

About Konekt, part of the APM Group

Since 1992, we’ve been supporting Australians return to work, recover from injury, and re-engage with their social and community life. Now one of Australia’s largest providers of injury prevention, injury management and workplace wellbeing services, we deliver the highest level of care and services to over 30,000 people annually. We’re constantly rethinking and evolving how we can better support people and organisations, to change how they think about health and safety, and get the very best out of every team member.

As part of the APM group, you have the opportunity to grow your career in Human Services across multiple global brands and geographies. A diverse team of over 16,000 people across 11 countries with a shared purpose – to enable better lives for our employees and the communities we work in. Our work enables the people we serve to realise their ambitions and aspirations through sustainable employment, independence, better health and wellbeing and increased social participation.

Ready to join?

Click APPLY now and complete your application through our online recruitment platform.

Konekt embraces DIVERSITY and places a high priority on the principles of respect, equity, and diversity.  We welcome applications from candidates of diverse backgrounds, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders, people from culturally diverse backgrounds and people with disabilities.