Specialist Health | WAIO | Yandi | FIFO 5:2 / 4:3

BHP

Port Hedland, Port Hedland, Karratha and Pilbara WA

Health, Safety and Environment (Mining, Resources and Energy)

Full time

About BHP

At BHP we support our people to grow, learn, develop their skills and reach their potential. With a global portfolio of operations, we offer a diverse and inclusive environment with extraordinary career opportunities. Our strategy is to focus on creating a safe work environment where our employees feel strongly connected to our values and objectives, and where the capability of our people is key to our success.

Come and be a part of this success.

About the Role

An exciting opportunity exists to join the Health and Safety Team at Yandi in a Permanent role as a Health Specialist, on a 5/2:4/3 roster with site travel required to provide care and support to our WAIO Operations in the Pilbara.

The Health Specialist is responsible for providing technical expertise in injury prevention and injury management activities. Through collaborating with the customer and building strong relationships with key stakeholders to create a culture that prioritises key health activities, the Health Specialist works to reduce occupational-related health risks, and to deliver health promotion that encourages a mentally healthy workforce.

In this role you will be required to: Support Yandi Operations personnel who become injured or ill at work through effective return-to-work strategies, while maintaining data privacy in leadership updates. Provide technical expertise in injury prevention and injury management. Maintain health reporting and ensure data integrity and governance. Develop working knowledge of legislative health reporting and applicable injury/illness classifications, using company standards and OSHA/WHS guidelines.

Build and maintain effective relationships with medical and allied health providers.

Develop and implement proactive health and safety initiatives to support injury and illness prevention

About You

You are a collaborative team player with a passion for health and safety, and a strong track record in injury management. You bring excellent communication and engagement skills and thrive in both autonomous and team environments. Your ability to build relationships and deliver results will be key to your success in this role.

You will be responsible for establishing injury and illness case management in accordance with BHPs internal requirements and relevant legislation.

Qualifications and Experience:

Tertiary qualifications in a health-related discipline (e.g. Physiotherapy, Occupational Therapy, Exercise Physiology, Nursing)

Minimum 3 years experience in a similar health and/or injury management role

Working knowledge of relevant health legislation across Australia and Workers Compensation case management

Experience delivering health and safety strategies and injury/illness prevention initiatives

Genuine desire to support positive health and wellbeing outcomes

Commitment to coaching and promoting a mentally healthy workforce

Strong written and verbal communication skills

High attention to detail and strong organisational skills

Ability to triage, make informed decisions, and solve problems effectively

About Our Process

At BHP, we are committed to employing individuals who align with the BHP Charter Values and meet the requirements of the role. As part of the recruitment process, there are a number of checks which may be conducted to demonstrate applicants suitability for a role including police / criminal background checks, medical, drug and alcohol testing, due diligence checks, right to work checks, and/or reference checks.

If you are already employed directly by BHP, please log in using your BHP email address or apply via our internal jobs portal.

Supporting a Diverse Workforce  

The size, stability and magnitude of our business not only provides significant opportunity for professional development, but also attractive salary packages with performance-based bonuses and a best-in-class employee share program. We know there are many aspects of our employees lives that are important, and work is only one of these, so we offer benefits to enable your work to fit with your life. These benefits include flexible working options, a generous paid parental leave policy, other extended leave entitlements and parent rooms.?

At BHP, we know that we are strengthened by diversity. We are an Equal Opportunity employer that is committed to making BHP a safe and inclusive workplace where everyone can thrive and be at their best every day. We are focused on creating a workforce thats more diverse and represents the communities where we work and live. providing a work environment in which everyone is included, treated fairly and with respect. We are an Equal Opportunity employer and recognise that true diversity includes gender, age, race, disability status, sexual orientation, religion, neurodiversity, education levels, and many more aspects of your identity.

BHP is committed to providing a recruitment process that is fair, equitable and accessible for all. If you have a disability, we know that it may be helpful for us to adjust our process to make it equitable for your individual situation.

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If you would like to reach out to someone about your situation and our recruitment process email us at inclusion@bhp.com