Lead Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation

As our Lead Injury Prevention & Rehabilitation, you'll play a critical part in supporting the recovery and wellbeing of our people, helping ensure safe, early return-to-work outcomes and strengthening a proactive, caring workplace culture.

This role is 20 hours per week, with genuine flexibility in how those hours are worked across the week, making this role ideal for someone seeking balance alongside meaningful, impactful work.

About the role

In your role of Lead Injury Prevention and Rehabilitation, you'll provide specialist advice and hands-on support across the organisation to manage injury, recovery and rehabilitation. Working closely with leaders, kaimahi, ACC and health providers, you'll ensure people are supported to recover well and return to work safely.

You'll also help shape and evolve how we approach injury prevention and rehabilitation, bringing your ideas, experience and insight to build something great. In this role you'll be leading injury and return-to-work case management (physical and psychological injuries), partnering with ACC and external providers to deliver effective rehabilitation outcomes, developing early intervention strategies to support wellbeing and reduce recovery time as well as advising and coaching leaders to confidently support injured employees.

Skills and experience required

You'll be an experienced practitioner who combines technical expertise with empathy and strong relationship skills.

To be successful you will bring:

• Experience in injury management, rehabilitation, occupational health, HR or a related field
• Strong knowledge of ACC legislation, claims processes and return-to-work practices
• Proven ability to coordinate injury cases and deliver practical, people-centred solutions
• Confidence building relationships with a range of stakeholders (leaders, providers, ACC)
• Ability to translate clinical or technical information into clear workplace actions
• A proactive mindset and desire to shape and improve how things are done

What we offer

• A part time, 20 hour per week role.
• Work to suit your life and whānau with our flexible working policy.
• We'll encourage you to grow and prosper with a range of learning and development opportunities, internal secondments and career progression.
• Your wellbeing is our priority - we'll provide medical and trauma insurance, support through our employee assistance programme, including Rongoā Māori partner providers, generous annual and sick leave, along with Tangihanga leave and support.
• We want you to have a sense of belonging, where you can reflect your personal and cultural identity in the way that you work.
• Social clubs, staff networks and a friendly and inclusive culture.
• Great working environments across our beautiful region.

Come help treasure and grow our rohe together

Our rohe and its lands, waterways, animals, plants and people can only grow stronger if they are nurtured.

To join our team is to step up and commit to playing an active part in this important mahi. That means restoring nature, connecting people and places, reducing environmental impacts and helping this rohe and its people prosper.

We are part of a collective movement alongside mana whenua and community members whose hopes for the future of this region are just as high as your own.

Our efforts across environmental management, public transport, flood protection, regional parks and water supply are interconnected and integral to treasuring our rohe and growing our future.

How to apply

Greater Wellington is proud to be a member of Te Uru Tāngata Centre for Workplace Inclusion. We value diversity and are committed to an inclusive, flexible, and supportive workplace. We encourage candidates from all backgrounds and welcome the unique talent and experience you will bring to our team.

We are passionate about ensuring our recruitment processes are fair and equitable. Please let us know if you have any accessibility needs or adjustments that need to be made so we can offer a recruitment process that is more accessible to you.

Click on the Apply link to view the position description and to apply for the role with a cover letter and CV. All applicants will be required to provide proof of their eligibility to work in New Zealand as we are unable to provide sponsorship for this position.

For further information, please contact Angela Kimmins, 021 195 9727.

Applications close: 5.00pm, Friday, 12 June 2026 . However, we will be shortlisting applications as they come in and will interview as soon as possible to secure the right person.

Greater Wellington is an accredited Living Wage Employer. We're committed to making sure our people, including people in our supply chain, earn enough to meet life's basic needs, support their whānau, and participate fully in their communities.

The remuneration for this position, inclusive of all benefits, is $91,026 to $136,539, with a midpoint of $113,783, pro-rated for part-time hours. Starting remuneration will depend on the skills and experience of the successful applicant.

Agency applications won't be considered at this time.