Job Placement Consultant

As a Job Placement Consultant you will actively work to support people living with illness disability or injury return to work or obtain new employment and live the best life they can! 

You will undertake a variety of activities including: 

• 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;
• 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;
• Brokering new employment or work experience opportunities in remote and regional areas which in turn provide a swift re-engagement into employment for workers who have been detached from the workplace;
• Build strong relationships with local employers and organisations; 
• Assist in developing written reports and brokering vocational programs that support return to work outcomes.

Qualifications :

As a Successful Job Placement Consultant will possess:

• Ideally you will be working towards a tertiary qualification in Rehabilitation Counselling or Psychology with an interest in exploring Occupational Rehabilitation as a future career path OR;
• Have a passion for Employment Services or Disability Employment keen to diversify your knowledge skill set and portfolio. Experience in employment services case management disability employment would be advantageous as would knowledge of workers compensation rehabilitation and occupational health and safety legislation;
• Drive energy and professionalism with a personable approach and the ability to manage stakeholder expectations grow services and build relationships;
• Flexible work hours arrangement: part-time (min 3 days) and full-time opportunities are available;
• A strong verbal and written communicator;
• Excellent time management skills be able to work autonomously as well as within a team environment;
• Excellent administrative skills competent with MS Office and MS Outlook;
• Have the confidence and initiative to solve problems and achieve outcomes; 
• Bilingual/multilingual is desirable eg. Arabic Mandarin Vietnamese Farsi Hindi
• Current driver licence road worthy motor vehicle and comprehensive insurance; due to location some travel may be expected.
• Working with Children Check and National Police Check (or able and willing to obtain).

Additional Information :

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. Were accountable approachable and authentic lifting ourselves and others to be the best we can be each and every day.

Big Hearts - Were 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 Lets 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 REF8756A or if you want to express of interest for a career with IPAR please contact our Talent Acquisition Advisor - Tammy onor   or connect on LinkedIn: #IPAR

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 3500 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 LGBTQI community veterans carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

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

Remote Work :

No

Employment Type :

Full-time