Employment Services Consultant

Job Description

As a WorkFocus Australia Employment Services Consultant you will help people to get well and working again by assisting them to find suitable new employment. Using your skills in engaging with people and employers, you will impact lives by equipping clients with marketable skills for new employment, helping them become competitive candidates, assist in placing injured workers in to suitable work hardening placements and by opening doors with them with employers in the best new job for them.

As a valued team member, your responsibilities will be to:

• Help source suitable placements for the implementation of return to work programs and work hardening programs
• Help clients develop the skills needed to be a competent and competitive job seeker in the current employment market
• Actively market the skills and aptitudes of individual job seekers to suitable employers.
• Support and walk beside your clients to engage them in an effective job seeking journey
• Develop and harness a network of employers to secure on the job training and employment opportunities for your client
• Understand current employment incentive schemes and how to use them to get your client the best new job for them
• Coach and motivate your clients to become the best new employee possible and to secure their next job.

Qualifications

What you’ll bring to the role:

• Positivity, empathy and persistence to do an important job well
• Experience within employment services, recruitment, marketing or BTB sales
• Excellent communication and stakeholder management skills
• Ability to multi-task and effective time management
• Knowledge and understanding of Workers' Compensation and injury management (desirable).
• Current driver's license and motor vehicle and the ability to travel

Additional Information

What we offer you:

• Truly flexible working, in the community, from home and the office – you set your schedule
• Learn and be mentored from a multi-award-winning team!
• Multiple career pathways and professional development opportunities – 90% of our leadership team have been promoted from within!
• Generous financial incentives program to reward you for your impact
• Purchase additional annual leave
• Paid parental leave
• Additional employer benefits package including salary sacrificing, fitness passport, novated leasing, Star Finder referral program and so much more!

About us: 

At WorkFocus, we get people well and working.

Since 1989, we have impacted the lives of over 100,000 Australians by providing a range of services to prevent and minimise the social, physical, psychological and financial consequences of injury and illness. Our team of allied health professionals champion the health benefits of good work, supporting and empowering people through the recovery process to return them to better health and life.

To Apply:

Click on the APPLY button or please contact Lauren Yau to have a confidential discussion about role REF7088Y at L[email protected] or 0477 576 099 quoting REF10235W

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.