The Retraining Injured Workers Career Transition Project

This project will operate over a 20 month period.  Funded by WorkCover SA’s Return to Work Fund and in partnership with WorkCover SA and Employers Mutual Limited (EML) Rehabilitation Case Managers and providers, it will identify and prepare 40 injured workers for retraining and/or up skilling to new careers/positions with, either their existing employer or, a new employer.

The project is able to accommodate injured workers from different industry sectors and employers, as it will provide training in cross-sector in demand skills in the areas of:

• Workplace based training and/or assessment;
• Occupational Health and Safety;
• Bookkeeping;
• Frontline management;
• Human Resource Management;
• Project Management;
• Asset Management and environmental;
• Spatial Information Services;
• Logistics.

The project will develop a model for early engagement of employers to identify their needs and how the injured worker can be trained, and transitioned, to meet current and emerging organisational job role and skill capability requirements. It is expected that this will mean that their original employers retain a number of injured workers in new roles and numbers of other injured workers gain new employment, in a new career/role, while using their new skills to manage their return to work on a casual or contractual basis.
Increased self-determination of injured workers in their work/career options will promote an earlier return to workforce participation by injured workers.
The skills of Rehabilitation Case Managers to work with both employers and injured workers to identify appropriate training for injured workers and better align training with employer demand for new career/role options will also be increased.