Colleen Harris Email & Phone Number

Setting up and leading a dynamic team of health and safety professional in a number of greenfield areas.

The College is a company under the Corporations Act 2001 not having share capital (not-for-profit). It is governed by a voluntary Board of Directors who are appointed at the Annual General Meeting.As a Director I was responsible for overseeing the governance of the College, including:Strategic decision-making, long-range planning, organisational.

Responsible for managing a multi-disciplinary Rehabilitation Provider service accredited under NSW and Commonwealth legislation to provide services to assist workers injured in the course of their employment or injured in motor accidents.Responsibilities included:Managing a department of 20 staff, including human resource management, selection, induction.

This was a new position created to establish and manage a call centre and information service dealing with over 600 calls per day related to both workers compensation and OHS issues. Our customers included workers, doctors, insurers, employers, unions, rehabilitation providers and internal WorkCover personnel.Responsibilities included:Designed and set up.

This was a new position and I was appointed to establish and implement a training strategy for the Division and to set up the WorkCover Inspector Training Unit, a new service created in response to political & organisational renewal with a focus on competencies in response to the changing national training agenda. Responsibilities included:Recruited.

Achievements included:Contract Occupational Therapist - developed and negotiated Return To Work Plans, conducted Workplace and Ergonomic Assessments, developed Suitable Duties Manuals. mentored new staff.Developed corporate rehabilitation and Return To Work policies and procedures and negotiated their endorsement and implementation with senior management.

In 1997 new Workers Compensation Legislation in NSW introduced new ways of doing things – employers became responsible for providing suitable duties to help injured workers rehabilitate at work. I was one of the first Return to Work Coordinators appointed to a NSW Government Agency. Responsibilities included:Responsible for establishing the organisation's.

Seconded to QE II Rehabilitation Centre as Occupational Therapist in Charge to assist to shut down the facility and set up a network of 15 Regional Units. This initiative was part of the Hawke Government’s reform of the disability sector and positioned CRS to be able to effectively deliver services under a new workers compensation system which focused on.

Cumberland College Of Health Sciences

Designed and delivered lectures, tutorials and small group learning experiences for the following courses:Bachelor of Applied Sciences (Occupational Therapy)Post Graduate Diploma (Occupational Therapy)Associate Diploma (Diversional Therapy)Associate Diploma (Aboriginal Health and Community Development) Supervised final year students Special.

Occupational Therapist. Areas of clinical experience included:Occupational RehabilitationRenalOphthalmologyNeurologyOutpatients RehabilitationCommunity Care TeamDay CareInpatient RehabilitationJoined the RPAH Alcohol Clinic; responsible for initiating, designing and implementing an "Education for Living" program for individuals referred to the.