IPAR is a national occupational rehabilitation provider supporting thousands of Australians living with illness, injury, disability, or health conditions to achieve their goals and live life to its fullest potential. Through workplace rehabilitation, injury prevention, counselling, vocational support, and return-to-work services, our team of Allied Health Professionals and Employment Consultants make a meaningful difference every day in peoples lives. As part of the MedHealth network, we're passionate about creating positive outcomes for our clients, customers, communities, and each other. We foster an environment that is collaborative, caring, inclusive, and focused on continuous improvement.

When you join IPAR, you'll be supported to build a rewarding career through comprehensive onboarding, ongoing professional development, and a strong promote-from-within culture. You'll also enjoy a range of benefits including our health and wellbeing program, recognition and rewards initiatives, employee referral incentives, Fitness Passport, discounted health insurance, novated leasing, salary packaging, Employee Assistance Program, parental and purchased leave, and opportunities to get involved in our Diversity & Inclusion initiatives including the IPAR Pride Group, i-parent network and Reconciliation Action Plan Committee.

As a Job Placement Consultant, you’ll assist our team of rehabilitation consultants to support people facing health challenges find new employment opportunities and support them in returning to meaningful & sustainable work! This role can be based from our Gold Coast or Ballina offices, with flexible work arrangements available after your induction. This position will service a caseload primarily based in the Gold Coast and Northern Rivers area, but you will also support the wider Queensland team.

Some of your day to day includes:

• Work collaboratively with injured workers, potential employers, and your internal team of allied health professionals to provide safe, sustainable opportunities for workers to re-enter the workforce;
• Assist our team of rehabilitation consultants to source and arrange host placements for Workcover Queensland claimants;
• Contribute to injured workers ability to achieve return to work goals through job skills development, confidence building and promoting independence;
• Apply and deliver customer service in employment services and job placement;
• Empower clients to effectively present their skills and abilities when seeking employment;
• Build strong relationships with local employers and organisations across Queensland/Northern NSW, which in turn provides opportunities for swift re-engagement into employment for our clients;
• Complete written progress and various other reports on a regular basis.

• Previous experience in Occupational Rehabilitation or Employment services, as well as customer service skills are highly regarded;
• Strong resume and cover letter writing skills are required;
• A passion for assisting people to gain employment;
• The ability to grow our services and build strong relationships with key customers;
• Current driver license and motor vehicle;

Current rehabilitation counselling and psychology students are also encouraged to apply.

Every day, we seek better together, for our clients, our customers, our community and each other.

Here at IPAR, we have three simple but powerful values that drive every decision we make as a business and as a team. Our values have been created by our people and reflect the incredible team that work here, and what is important to them.

Great People - To be an IPARian means being caring, collaborative and inclusive. We’re accountable, approachable and authentic, lifting ourselves and others to be the best we can be each and every day.

Big Hearts - We’re here to make a positive difference for our clients, our customers, our team and our community. We believe in making meaningful connections as we support people in their time of need.

Bold Ideas - Is there a better way? Let’s find it. We show curiosity and courage in the face of challenge or change and draw on experts, insights and evidence to continually deliver the highest quality solutions.

If you would like to have a confidential discussion about the role [quoting REF10210K] or if you want to express of interest for a career with IPAR, please contact the Talent Acquisition Specialist, Grant Devlin on 0474 740 466 for a confidential discussion. 

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You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 4,000 people around Australia represent 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 LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.