Overview
As one of the largest providers of workplace rehabilitation in Australia, IPAR is dedicated to creating the best health, wellbeing and employment solutions that support people to move forward. IPAR is part of the global MedHealth network. We support over 20,000 people each year on their rehabilitation journey. With office locations across Australia in every state and territory, you can grow your career with us, explore the region and support our clients to achieve their return to work goals.
Benefits
- Competitive remuneration with innovative incentive and bonus schemes
- Fitness Passport - Discounted fitness membership and access to facilities Australia wide
- Access to IPAR’s health and wellness program with team monthly activities to support well-being and peer connection
- IPAR’s Star Award reward and recognition program for top achievers
- A "promote from within" culture where every team member is supported to build a career
- Employee Referral Program - Monetary incentives for successfully recommending great talent
- Be part of a diverse and multidisciplinary team who are knowledgeable, collaborative, supportive and fun
- Comprehensive onboarding program to ensure a great start and ongoing support to excel
- Prospect to join our Diversity and Inclusion committees, including the IPAR Pride Group, i-parent, and Reconciliation Action Plan committee
Job Description
In this diverse role, you will enjoy the flexibility and autonomy to manage your own day. You will have the support of a strong, close team of driven and energetic healthcare professionals with the backing and resources of a global corporate infrastructure. You will provide occupational rehabilitation services to clients with a range of physical and psychological conditions and support them to achieve return to health and return to work outcomes.
This opportunity as a Rehabilitation Consultant also offers exposure to IPAR’s innovative services, including the pain education program Re-thinking Recovery. This program centers on using virtual reality and modern pain science to help people understand pain and retrain their brain and body. Re-thinking Recovery is used in collaboration with a client’s current healthcare approach and involves engagement with the entire treating team to ensure the service is focused on the client.
Responsibilities
- Case management (caseloads are manageable, with support from Rehabilitation Assistants to alleviate administrative tasks)
- Apply clinical knowledge to improve return to work outcomes
- Work with employers and employees to develop and implement injury prevention and workplace education programs
- Collaborate with injured workers, employers, medical and allied health professionals
- Assist those with an injury or health condition to achieve return to health and return to work outcomes
- Complete a variety of assessments using clinical skills, including initial, workplace and vocational assessments to review diagnosis, support treatment plans, address psychosocial barriers to employment and identify suitable employment opportunities
Qualifications
- Qualification in Exercise Physiology, Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy or Osteopathy
- Full Professional Registration with AHPRA or Full Professional Accreditation with ESSA
- Strong communication skills to build and develop relationships
- Excellent time management skills; able to work autonomously as well as in a team
- Problem solving with initiative and a results-oriented mindset
- Passion for injury prevention, return to work and associated health benefits
- Current driver licence and access to own vehicle
Additional Information
Every day, we seek better together, for our clients, our customers, our community and each other. IPAR has three simple but powerful values that drive every decision we make as a business and as a team: Great People, Big Hearts, Bold Ideas. We are committed to equality of opportunity and welcome people from diverse backgrounds, including disability or mental health conditions, diverse cultures and languages, LGBTQI communities, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians. We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.
If you would like to have a confidential discussion about the role or express interest for a career with IPAR, please contact our Talent Acquisition Lead, Grant Devlin on using the reference REF7658D.
You are welcome here.
Our fast-growing team of more than 3,500 people around Australia represents a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences.
We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQI community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.
We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.
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📌 Rehabilitation Consultant - Exercise Physiologist or Physiotherapist
🏢 Ipar
📍 Launceston