Injury Prevention and Wellbeing Advisor
- Join the Work Health and Safety team at Taronga Zoo Sydney.
- Focus on injury prevention, workers compensation, and employee wellbeing.
- Engage with employees to identify risks and implement practical solutions.
- Located at Sydney’s Iconic Taronga Zoo
- Full time ongoing position
- TCSA Salaried Employees Award, Clerk Grade 5/6, annual package starting at $116,669 (includes base salary $102,936 + plus superannuation & leave loading)
Taronga Zoo Sydney is looking for an experienced and motivated Injury Prevention and Wellbeing Advisor to join our Work Health and Safety team!
Bring your expertise to one of Australia’s most unique and varied workplaces, where you will help shape practical solutions that prevent injuries, improve recovery outcomes and respond to emerging workforce risks.
About the Role…
In this varied role, you will work across injury prevention, workers compensation, recovery at work, health surveillance and wellbeing.
You will spend time engaging with employees and leaders, assessing workplace tasks, identifying emerging risks and turning workforce insights into practical action. You will also support employees with work-related and non-work-related conditions that affect their capacity for work.
Key Accountabilities…
- Undertake workplace and task analysis to identify factors that may contribute to injury or illness and recommend practical risk controls.
- Coordinate injury management for work-related and non-work-related injuries and illnesses, supporting safe and sustainable recovery at work outcomes.
- Identify health surveillance and health monitoring requirements and coordinate the delivery and review of required programs.
- Analyse injury, workers compensation and workforce information to identify trends, emerging risks and opportunities for prevention and early intervention.
- Develop, coordinate and evaluate targeted health and wellbeing initiatives informed by workforce trends, organisational risks and staff engagement.
- Support the identification and management of psychosocial hazards through risk assessment, consultation and monitoring of controls.
- Engage employees, leaders and other stakeholders to build understanding and support for injury prevention, recovery at work and wellbeing initiatives.
- Maintain accurate and confidential records, registers and reports to support legislative compliance and informed decision-making.
About You…
We are looking for candidates who have:
- Relevant qualifications or professional experience in allied health, occupational rehabilitation, injury prevention, workplace health or a related field.
- Experience assessing work tasks or workplace activities, identifying injury risk factors and recommending practical controls or improvements.
- Experience in workers compensation, injury management and recovery at work will be highly regarded.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to translate injury data and workplace insights into targeted action.
- Excellent communication and relationship-building skills, with the confidence to engage and influence employees, leaders, health professionals and external stakeholders.
- The ability to manage sensitive and confidential matters with professionalism, objectivity and sound judgement.
Benefits…
Our employees enjoy generous employment conditions including some of the following:
- Flexible working arrangements, with the role primarily based onsite to support operational engagement and injury prevention activities. Working from home may be available by agreement, based on operational needs.
- Complimentary family and friends passes across both Taronga’s Sydney & Dubbo Zoo’s
- Free onsite car parking, outside of peak periods
- A wide range of discounts on our award-winning accommodation across both sites
- Discounted food and beverage purchases across the sites
- Discounted Fitness Passport membership
- We’re a social team - there’s always lots going on around the zoo that we get involved with!
- + more!
We Value Diversity…
Taronga is an equal opportunity employer, where we recognise the diversity of our workforce and community – be it on the basis of gender, age, culture, religion, language or personal circumstances.
Taronga is also committed to building on the perspectives, experience, knowledge and skills that this diversity brings to our organisation.
About Applying…
Please submit your resume and a one-page cover letter. You are also required to complete the two target questions as part of your application.
- Describe a time when you led an assessment of a work task or workplace activity to address injury risk. Explain how you assessed the demands of the task, identified contributing risk factors and developed your recommendations. What was the outcome?
- Describe a time when you needed to gain support for a workplace health or injury prevention recommendation. How did you engage stakeholders, address differing views and influence the outcome?
Applications Close:11:59pm Sunday 15 November 2026
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