
Return to Work Coordinator and Claims Administrator
Forensicare
Posted 7 days ago
- Full Time, ongoing position
- Based at the Thomas Embling Hospital, in Fairfield
- $122,106 per annum + Superannuation + Salary Packaging
About the Role
This position is based at Forensicare’s Thomas Embling Hospital, in Fairfield, and reports directly to the Head of Workplace Relations, Health & Safety.
The RTW Coordinator and Claims Administrator provides expert guidance and operational leadership in managing workplace injuries, ensuring compliance with Return to Work and WorkCover legislation.
As the primary contact for injured workers, the role delivers responsive, person-centred support throughout the recovery journey, facilitating safe and sustainable return to work outcomes.
As the RTW Coordinator, you will:
- Coordinate the end-to-end return to work process for injured employees.
- Administer the full lifecycle of WorkCover claims, including lodging claims, registering certificates, and coordinating with internal stakeholders, treating practitioners, and independent medical examiners (IMEs) to ensure timely and accurate case progression.
- Conduct regular audits of claims and injury management processes to ensure adherence to legal obligations, internal procedures, and continuous improvement principles.
- Provide high quality administrative and operational support that enables effective functioning of teams services and day-to-day operations.
- Review pre-employment medical assessments, job demand evaluations, and inherent requirement documentation, ensure assessments frameworks are accurate, current, and aligned with role capabilities and workplace safety requirements.
- Monitor and track the progress of claims and return to work plans, reporting against key performance indicators and identifying opportunities to improve recovery outcomes and reduce claim duration.
About You:
- Relevant tertiary qualifications in Occupational Health and Safety, Allied Health, Nursing, Human Resources, or a related discipline.
- Demonstrated experience in return-to-work coordination and claims administration.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, with a track record of preparing accurate documentation, managing sensitive information, and achieving timely outcomes.
- Comprehensive understanding of WorkCover legislation, return to work frameworks, and injury management principles, with proven ability to apply these in complex organisational settings.
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Benefits:
- A mental health and wellbeing program provided
- Professional Development training opportunities to suit your career goal
- Access to an employee assistance program – an external, confidential, self-referral employee wellbeing program, for personal or work-related matters.
- Fitness passport – discounted unparalleled access to a wide range of gyms, pools and fitness centres
- Refer a friend program, get up to a $1000
- Salary sacrificing of $9,010 and $2650 meal allowance per annum
- Social Club, access to discounted cinema tickets, AFL games, Zoos, Concerts etc
- Comprehensive Orientation Day before you start, and buddy system available
Eligibility
- Influenza and Immunisation Evidence
- This position is subject to a Police Check
To Apply
Applications must include a current resume and a detailed cover letter outlining your interest in the position.
Applications will close by midnight on the 30th of September 2025.
For queries please contact Georgina Ormiston via [email protected]
Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to attracting and developing a diverse workforce which reflects the community we serve. We encourage applications from Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, people who identify as LGBTQI, people with a lived experience of disability, as well as people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds. Forensicare promotes our guiding principles of RESPECT, INTEGRITY, ACCOUNTABILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS; and promotes behaviours that are consistent with these values at all times. Forensicare is an equal opportunity employer and offers a smoke free environment.
About Forensicare
Our vision
Clinical excellence and translational research enable our consumers to lead fulfilling and meaningful lives in a safer community.
Our mission
We will provide high quality, specialist clinical services that:
focus on the recovery of our consumers,
support our workforce,
build our translational research capacity; and
work collaboratively with our stakeholders to achieve better and safer outcomes for our consumers and the community.
Our values
Forensicare is guided by the values established by the Victorian Public Sector Commission for the public sector, and promotes behaviours consistent with these values at all times and in all circumstances:
Our story
Forensicare (Victorian Institute of Forensic Mental Health) is the state-wide specialist provider of forensic mental health services in Victoria. Forensicare is the only agency in Victoria that provides clinical forensic mental health services which span all components of the mental health and criminal justice sectors – giving Forensicare a unique perspective on mental health and public safety issues. It is able to provide specialist forensic mental health services tailored to meet the specific needs of both sectors.
We provide forensic mental health services for people:
with a serious mental illness in the criminal justice system
at risk of offending who pose a risk to themselves or others
referred from the general mental health system for specialist advice, support and/or treatment.
Forensicare’s primary focus is the provision of clinical services within a recovery framework. These services include the effective assessment, treatment and management of forensic patients, prisoners and clients.
Source: This is an extract from the company's own website.
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