Role: Recover@Work Specialist
Location: Port Melbourne VIC
Employment Type: Full time permanent
The Recover@Work Specialist leads a team of recover@work partners and administrative support, providing direction, coaching, and technical oversight to ensure consistent and effective injury management and return-to-work outcomes across Goodstart Early Learning. It focuses on embedding best-practice approaches for both work and non-work injuries, ensuring compliance with workers’ compensation legislation, and supporting recover@work partners to implement practical, cost-effective recovery strategies.
Working closely with relevant stakeholders, including insurers, brokers, allied health professionals and partners to oversee national workers’ compensation programs, monitor claims performance, and improve processes to reduce costs and support our Goodstarters to return to work safely. Through strong team leadership and strategic case management, it aims to deliver positive recovery experiences while supporting broader organisational goals around safety, wellbeing, and business performance.
Your Impact:
- Lead and manage the Recover@Work Partner and Team Support resources, setting clear priorities, performance expectations and structured work allocation aligned to organisational strategy.
- Strengthen capability across operational leadership teams by providing guidance, coaching and practical support in managing workplace injury, recovery and sustainable return to work.
- Maintain contemporary knowledge of Workers’ Compensation and Work Health and Safety legislation, regulations, codes of practice and relevant Australian Standards.
- Ensure quality and consistency of return-to-work and injury management practices, communication and technical advice delivered by the Recover@Work team.
- Monitor case management practices and recovery outcomes across the Recover@Work portfolio, including internal case reviews and continuous improvement activities.
- Develop the professional
📌 Recover@Work Specialist (Vic)
🏢 Goodstart
📍 Vic