State Manager

IPAR is a national occupational rehabilitation provider supporting thousands of people who may be living with an illness, disability, or injury. Whether it is through workplace rehabilitation, counselling, injury prevention or finding new employment, our care is tailored to each and every individual. We work with our clients to identify their goals and provide psychological or physical supports to help them live life to its fullest potential. Our team of highly skilled allied health professionals and employment consultants include Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, Psychologists and Rehabilitation Counsellors. IPAR is just one of the purpose-built, industry leading brands in the global MedHealth network. We make impact and we achieve outcomes through the meaningful and purposeful work that we do every day.

Why joins us?

• Access to IPAR’s health and wellness program with fun team monthly activities to support your overall well-being and to connect with your peers.

• IPAR’s Star Award reward and recognition program for top achievers - we come together yearly as a team to connect and celebrate our great people and the amazing work happening across Australia.

• A "promote from within" culture where every team member is supported to build a career  

• Opportunity to join our Diversity & Inclusion committees, including the IPAR Pride Group, i-parent, Reconciliation Action Plan committee.

• Corporate benefits including Fitness Passport, Travel Perks, Discounted Health Insurance, Novated Leasing, Salary Packaging, EAP, Parental & Purchased Leave.

IPAR have a fantastic career development opportunity for the role of State Manager in a Full Time basis.

As a State Manager, you will provide leadership and management to IPAR leaders and staff across Queensland & Northern Territory, driving business growth, profitability, quality, human resourcing initiatives and marketing activities, ensuring that business objectives are met. Presence across our QLD & NT branches will be required for this role.

Location of role is flexible for the right candidate.

Key accountabilities include: 

• Leadership development, workforce planning, managing people risk, workplace culture
• Local customer management and business development. Local product/customer innovation
• Financial/business performance to budget, forecasting, P&L management, commercial decision making and State MBT performance
• Approval management of incentives to ensure calculations are correct and in line with the most up to date plan

Applicants with:

• Strategic management experience as a senior manager of occupational rehabilitation services
• Commercial acumen to drive divisional growth, profitability, quality initiatives and marketing activities.
• Strong human resource management acumen, including people risk identification, recruitment, compensation, workforce planning, employee engagement and performance management.   
• Excellent financial analysis skills.
• Demonstrated ability to determine strategies to identify and solve anomalies/problems.
• Outstanding leadership expertise within large teams across geographically dispersed locations.
• Exceptional organisational and time management abilities to manage competing deadlines.
• Advanced national knowledge of personal injury rehabilitation and occupational health and safety legislation.

Every day, we seek better together, for our clients, our customers, our community and each other.

Here at IPAR, we have three simple but powerful values that drive every decision we make as a business and as a team. Our values have been created by our people and reflect the incredible team that work here, and what is important to them.

Great People - To be an IPARian means being caring, collaborative and inclusive. We’re accountable, approachable and authentic, lifting ourselves and others to be the best we can be each and every day.

Big Hearts - We’re here to make a positive difference for our clients, our customers, our team and our community. We believe in making meaningful connections as we support people in their time of need.

Bold Ideas - Is there a better way? Let’s find it. We show curiosity and courage in the face of challenge or change and draw on experts, insights and evidence to continually deliver the highest quality solutions.

If you would like to have a confidential discussion about the role [quoting REF10077E] or if you want to express interest for a career with IPAR, please contact our Talent Acquisition Specialist, Grant Devlin on 0474 740 466 #IPAR

You are welcome here.

Our fast-growing team of more than 4,000 people around Australia represent a huge array of life experiences, skills and ways of thinking. We value all these differences. 

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, proudly welcoming people with disability including mental health conditions, people from diverse cultural and linguistic backgrounds, people from the LGBTQIA+ community, veterans, carers and Indigenous Australians to our team.

We are happy to adjust our recruitment process to support accessibility needs.