Opportunity
Join Ventia in a pivotal leadership role that shapes the health, wellbeing, and recovery outcomes of our people across Australia.
Ventia is seeking an experienced Manager – Health & Injury Management to lead health and injury management activity across a significant multi state portfolio, while also contributing to selected enterprise wide strategies. This role is critical in driving strong compliance, effective early intervention, and sustainable return to work outcomes, while reducing risk and improving workers compensation performance.
You will work closely with senior leaders, operational teams, regulators, and external providers to deliver best practice health and injury management frameworks aligned to Ventia's values, obligations, and self insurance commitments.
This full time role can be based either at Ventia's North Plympton head office or regionally within South Australia, depending on candidate location, with flexibility to work from home where appropriate. The position will involve site visits and travel across SA, along with occasional interstate travel to support operations in WA, VIC, NT, TAS and the ACT.
Benefits
* Salary from $140k TFR (inclusive of 12% super), with scope to increase based on skills and experience.
* A dynamic, supportive, and inclusive team culture where you can make a real difference.
* Ventia are committed to supporting your physical and mental wellbeing, offering initiatives such as Fitness Passport, Healthy Mind Champions, discounted health insurance, and access to our confidential Employee Assistance Program.
* VenPerks: exclusive discounts at over 450 retailers across Australia, spanning everyday essentials, travel, and lifestyle.
About The Role
Reporting to the Group Manager – Health & Injury Management, you will provide strategic, operational, and people leadership across the function, including:
* Leading and mentoring a small team of Health & Injury Management professionals, including oversight of outsourced claims providers.
* Driving early intervention, rehabilitation, return to work, and wellbeing programs across the enterprise.
* Overseeing workers compensation claims performance, trends, costs, and liabilities to reduce risk and improve outcomes.
* Ensuring compliance with workers compensation legislation, self insurance licence conditions, and regulatory requirements across multiple jurisdictions, while acting as a key liaison with regulators and external partners.
* Developing performance reports, data insights, and improvement programs, and partnering with business units to embed consistent, best practice health and injury management capability.
About You
To be successful in this role, you will bring:
* Tertiary qualifications in Allied Health, HR/IR, Safety, Law, Business, Personal Injury or Insurance (postgraduate study desirable).
* Extensive experience managing workers compensation and injury management programs within a self insured employer, ideally in a complex, multi state environment.
* Strong technical expertise across injury management, return to work, strategic claims oversight, and risk management.
* Proven leadership capability, with experience leading specialist teams and influencing senior stakeholders.
* A collaborative, consultative approach with a strong understanding of compliance frameworks, regulator engagement, and driving change in complex organisations.
About Ventia
Ventia is a leading infrastructure services company, operating across Australia and New Zealand. Our clients are the owners and operators of assets that are critical to our local communities. We pride ourselves on working smart, safely and sustainably, harnessing the latest technologies and brightest minds. With a diverse and proud heritage, we have a track record of delivering essential services to the communities in which we operate.
Diversity
Ventia is enriched by the diverse experiences, talents and cultures that our people bring to the organisation, while celebrating and respecting the communities we operate in. We are committed to providing a safe and positive environment that provides equal opportunities for individuals of all backgrounds, including Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, LGBTQIA+, Women, Veterans and spouses and people with disabilities.
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