Workers Compensation Payroll Officer
Employment Type: Permanent Full Time
Position Classification: Administration Officer Level 6
Remuneration: $80,340.91 - $82,240.21 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ555586
Applications Close: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Position Classification: Administration Officer Level 6
Remuneration: $80,340.91 - $82,240.21 per annum plus Superannuation
Hours Per Week: 38
Requisition ID: REQ555586
Applications Close: Sunday, 16 March 2025
Location: Prince of Wales Hospital, Randwick
Where you'll be working
Health, Safety and Wellbeing Services is committed to supporting our people in maintaining a safe and healthy workplace where we can deliver the highest standards of health, safety, and wellbeing services, through continuously improving safety risk management performance, and encouraging a strong and responsible safety culture across our District. You will be working in a collaborative, supportive environment with a team that is passionate about building partnerships to provide a safe work environment for our people, and promote a healthy, safety conscious culture.
What you'll be doing
The Workers Compensation Payroll Officer is responsible for providing workers compensation payroll services for all SESLHD workers compensation claimants, including the accurate calculation of workers compensation payments, management of payroll enquiries from internal and external customers and stakeholders, executing payroll adjustments and the reconciliation of payments from the Treasury Managed Funds (TMS) Insurance Manager.
This role works across a multi-disciplinary environment within the Health Safety and Wellbeing team to support SESLHD in meeting its legislative obligations for the effective management of workers compensation claims.
Benefits:
- Up to 12 allocated days off each year (for full-time employees) in addition to annual leave.
- Salary packaging options that reduce your taxable income and increase your take-home pay! Up to $9K for living expenses and $2.6K meal & entertainment & Novated Leasing.
- Discounted gym memberships with a Fitness Passport
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) for employees and family members.
- Discounted Private Health Insurance.
Selection Criteria
- Significant experience within payroll processing and administration, knowledge and ability in interpreting policies, awards and agreements, and the ability to manually calculate pays and retrospective adjustments
- Knowledge of the NSW Workers Compensation Legislation weekly benefits schedules and ability to accurately interpret and apply to the workers compensation payroll processes
- Experience in the use of Microsoft Office packages including Word, Outlook, PowerPoint, Excel, Content Manager, Oracle purchasing and other internal Health systems such as Health Roster, SolvInjury, ims+, and electronic filing and payroll databases
- High level interpersonal, written and verbal communication skills, including experience responding to a range of customer enquiries and determining the appropriate response in a complex work environment
- Ability to work independently and with a demonstrated capacity for effective and collaborative teamwork within allocated resources, to achieve objectives and meet performance delivery expectations
- Customer focused with demonstrated commitment to delivering a quality service and quality improvement initiatives in workplace practices and procedures
- Highly motivated, agile and resilient, with ability to work to tight deadlines, changing or competing priorities, within a challenging, complex environment, and varying stakeholders with differing perspectives and expectations
- Current drivers licence (with ability and willingness to travel throughout SESLHD, consistent with the demands of the position and customer needs).
Need more information?
1) Click here for the Position Description and SESLHD Expected Standards
2) Find out more about applying for this position
For role related queries or questions contact Georgia Achele on Georgia.Achele@health.nsw.gov.au
Our CORE Values are Collaboration, Openness, Respect and Empowerment and have been created by employees for employees and help define how we work and to inspire positive interactions in the workplace.
Reasonable Adjustments
NSW Health recognises everyone is unique, and that you may require some adjustments to ensure you have the best opportunity to apply. If we can make some adjustments to the NSW Health recruitment/interview process, then please email SESLHD-Recruitment-District@health.nsw.gov.au and let us know.
Adjustments may include but are not limited to, physical requirements, interview setups and specific interview availability times where required.
Information for applicants:
- An eligibility list may be created for future vacancies.
- Employment of a temporary visa holder may only occur if no suitable permanent resident or citizen of Australia has been identified for this position following suitable labour market testing.
- Applicants will be assessed against the essential requirements and selection criteria contained within the position description.
- Recommended applicants will be reviewed for compliance with NSW Health policy directive Occupational Assessment, Screening and Vaccination against Specific Diseases for all positions prior to offer.
- SESLHD is committed to creating a workplace that reflects the diversity of our community. This will help ensure our employees, our patients and their carers, feel supported. We invite candidates of all ages, genders, sexual orientation, cultural backgrounds, people with disability, neurodiverse individuals, and Indigenous Australians to apply. We do have an Aboriginal Employment Consultant that can also provide support (SESLHD-AboriginalWorkforce@health.nsw.gov.au) and for additional information please visit our Stepping Up Website
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