Employment Placement Manager

APM Workcare understands that prevention and proactive management of injuries in the workplace is critically important, and we work with employers and their people to minimise the personal and business impact of injuries, illness and disability through prevention, rehabilitation, and training.

Position purpose:

A key factor of APMs success is the ability to place injured or disabled jobseekers into sustainable employment. The Employment Placement Manager (EPM) role within the APM WorkCare team has a key focus on securing new employer placements via job brokerage and to represent APM in the employer market.

In this role, you will:

• Effectively communicate and interact with people across cultures.
• Collaborate with colleagues to support identification of clients who are ‘job ready’ and suitable for placement.
• Undertake Client meetings to create individual intervention plans to maximise achieving a return-to-work outcome.
• Apply relevant rehabilitation counselling strategies and methodologies.
• Conduct cold canvassing and marketing of ‘job ready’ clients to potential employers utilising relevant jurisdictional incentives and schemes.
• Working with primary Consultant to ensure client has required job skills such as managing an interview, injury disclosure, negotiating salary/hours/duties etc.
• Complete case reviews with Primary Consultant to assess and realign goals and strategies.
• Maintain regular contact with Primary Consultant and to follow up when monthly allocated time is exhausted.
• Completing legislative specific reports where applicable.
• Maintain documented evidence of all secured interviews and placements.

What we are looking for:

• Proven experience working within a high-performance driven environment.
• Highly developed interpersonal skills including negotiation and consultation skills and the ability to proactively establish and sustain effective stakeholder relationships.
• Experience in Employment Services and the service delivery issues facing these organisations.
• Strong attention to detail with a result focused approached.
• Strong organisational skills and capacity to successfully manage competing priorities.
• Show initiative and work unsupervised.
• Well-developed ability to undertake research and to prepare, collate and organise data for reporting purposes.
• Ability to follow administration procedures with accuracy and efficiency.
• Current Australian drivers’ licence.
• Police clearance and a working with children check.

What’s in it for you?

Enjoy the flexibility and autonomy to set your own hours and work location, managing your own schedule. Focus on achieving effective client outcomes through various means such as teleconferences, employer visits, worksite meetings, and client consultations.

Join a collegiate and supportive team environment where you will receive individualized in-house training and development to help you meet realistic daily targets. Benefit from a culture driven by motivation and a commitment to client goals.

Additional perks include access to company cars for travel, an incentive scheme, a laptop, a mobile phone, the option to purchase additional leave and salary sacrificing opportunities.

We are more than 14,750 people in 11 countries with a global purpose - enabling better lives.

When you join APM, there’s an opportunity to grow your career in Human Services, across multiple global brands and geographies. You can expect a great work-life balance, extensive learning opportunities, networking programs and employee benefits. But most of all you can expect to make a lasting impact on the lives of others, who rely on our services. 

At APM we are strengthened by diversity. We are committed to providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We encourage applications from people of all ages, nationalities, abilities and cultures including indigenous peoples, the LGBTQI+ community and people with a disability.

Ready to Join?

Click APPLY now to submit your application through our online recruitment platform.

For a confidential discussion, please call Jeannie on 0409 409 397 or email: jeannie.agbayani@apm.net.au  or connect at https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeannieagbayani