Position Description - Stepping Into ProgramPosition Title

Comcare Intern

Location

Canberra

Position Duration

152 hours

Comcare Overview

Comcare’s role is to have a positive impact on reducing injury and harm in the workplace. Comcare’s work underpins quality workplaces and plays a vital role supporting workforce participation and productivity.

Comcare’s four business priorities are:

Leading insurer—working with employers and employees to minimise harm in workplaces, support return to work and recovery at work, and deliver robust and transparent management of claims.

National regulator—delivering risk-based, cost-effective and consistent national regulation of workplaces, encouraging compliance to improve health, safety and rehabilitation outcomes through education and appropriate, balanced enforcement.

Excellence in scheme management and design—working with scheme participants to achieve a sustainable, fair and best practice national scheme. We provide expert advice to the Minister for Employment, the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Commission (SRCC) and Seafarers Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Authority (Seacare Authority), and provide leadership in policy and scheme design.

Efficient and cost-effective corporate management—providing high quality, timely management of corporate services, supporting business innovation and improvement by leading corporate planning and building the capability of our people.

Position Overview

Comcare is seeking to employ an Intern who would value and enjoy working in a team, understanding workplace practice and developing strengths and honing their skills.

Comcare will be looking for an Intern that is:

Outcomes focused

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Honest and truthful in their interactions with others

Capable of delivering high quality performance

Collaborative

Responsive to changing needs

Customer and client focused

Main Responsibilities

Under direction, manage a range of specified projects and tasks assigned from the group’s business plan.

Assist in drafting, preparing and/or proof reading documents such as briefing notes, memoranda, reports, correspondence, guidelines, manuals, procedures and publications.

Liaising with staff and other internal and external stakeholders about a range of matters relating to the organisation’s operations.

Interpreting, applying and advising in relation to the Safety, Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 1988 and the Work Health and Safety Act 2011.

Collating, researching, analysing, auditing and reporting on qualitative and quantitative information.

Copying, collating and distributing documents.

Processing mail, filing correspondence and maintaining records.

Providing secretarial support to internal/external committees.

Representing at seminars, workshops, networks and other external forums with credibility and professionalism.

Promote workplace safety, equity and diversity and environment practices in the workplace.

Demonstrate and model safe attitudes, values and behaviours in order to uphold your health and safety duties.

Commit to, promote and model the APS Values and APS Code of Conduct.

Ideal Degree/Discipline

Comcare is looking for a person with a degree in any of the following areas:

Health

Quantitative fields

Law

Policy

Data & Information management

Remuneration

TBA

Eligibility Requirements

Australian citizenship

Character clearance (police records check)

Probationary period

Currently studying in their penultimate or final year of a relevant undergraduate degree with an Australian university.

For information on conditions of employment, please refer to comcare website .