Join Western Power in a new 12-month fixed-term opportunity as our Injury Prevention Specialist, you’ll play a vital role in protecting the health and wellbeing of our workforce - delivering proactive injury prevention, guiding leaders through best-practice injury management, and ensuring every case is managed safely, fairly and in line with legislation.

Your Role in Action

Provide proactive, trusted occupational health advice that supports our workforce, leaders and contracting partners to stay safe and well.
Lead the end-to-end management of injury and Workers’ Compensation cases, ensuring early intervention, compliance and positive return-to-work outcomes.
Support timely recovery by coordinating acute injury responses and appropriate treatment pathways from day one.
Use health, safety and injury data to identify emerging risks, trends and prevention opportunities that strengthen our approach to wellbeing.
Drive meaningful reductions in claim costs and durations through effective, compassionate injury and illness management.
Coach and mentor leaders to confidently meet their legislative responsibilities and apply consistent injury management practices.
Promote injury management awareness and champion a proactive, prevention-focused safety culture across the organisation.
Deliver education, training and key programs (including fitness for work and alcohol and other drugs management) to ensure consistent understanding and best practice.

What Makes You a Great Fit

Experience in health, injury management, Workers’ Compensation or a related field.
Sound working knowledge of injury management practices and relevant legislation, including the Workers’ Compensation and Injury Management Act.
Confidence managing Workers’ Compensation and injury cases, with experience coaching others to apply best-practice approaches.
Strong communication skills, with the ability to explain technical or legislative information in clear, practical ways.
A collaborative approach and the ability to build trust and influence positive outcomes.
A relevant tertiary qualification in an allied health discipline (such as Occupational Therapy, Physiotherapy, Exercise Physiology, Nursing or Psychology) and a valid WA C or C-A class driver’s licence.

By joining Western Power, you will contribute to powering a cleaner energy future. We are dedicated to fostering career development and promoting a healthy work-life balance, empowering you to drive innovation as we develop a network that will serve the Western Australian community for generations. You will also benefit from a range of perks and opportunities, including:

Over 50% of our employment opportunities are driven by career progression.
Flexible work arrangements to support part time work, working hours and working from home arrangements.
The opportunity to purchase up to four weeks of additional leave per year.
Access to salary packaging, social club activities, and discounted health insurance and gym membership.
An award-winning employee recognition and benefits programme.
An innovative team culture that’s enabling the transition to renewable energy and decarbonisation.
In addition to standard leave, enjoy three wellness leave days each year.

22 weeks paid parental leave and 5 days of First Nations cultural leave to support family and cultural connections.

Applications close on 17 February 2026

We value diversity and inclusivity, encouraging applications from all backgrounds, including women, Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, and LGBTQIA+ communities.

As a WORK180-endorsed employer for women, we are proud of our commitment to inclusion. You can learn more about this through our Reconciliation Action Plan and Disability Access and Inclusion Plan.

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