Senior Full-Stack Engineer

Reporting to the Manager, Worker’s Compensation, you are responsible for assisting employees on behalf of the employer when the employee is off work, or at risk of being off work, due to a workplace injury. The case manager assesses any barriers to a successful and timely return to work and engages with stakeholders to implement strategies to address those identified barriers and support return to work or an appropriate alternative plan.

Essential Functions

• Meeting with clients to review internal workplace injury issues
• Managing workplace injury claims, minimizing time-loss and claim costs through early intervention and proactive coordination of services
• Ensuring regular and open lines of communication with clients, injured workers, and the provincial Worker’s Compensation Boards
• Liaising with the provincial Workers’ Compensation Boards
• Reviewing claim files
• Interpreting provincial workers’ compensation legislation, policies, and procedures
• Filing reports of injury, identifying appeal issues, drafting letters of objection
• Coordinating case management activities including developing, implementing, and monitoring return to work and rehabilitation strategies
• Facilitating 3rd party interventions (functional capacity evaluations, independent medical evaluations)

Qualifications

• Paralegal license or CHRP designation is a requirement.
• Work experience in a workers’ compensation claims management capacity either in an in-house capacity at a private company or in a third-party consulting capacity with corresponding knowledge of workers’ compensation statutes, policies, and procedures, and workplace health and safety would be an asset.
• Familiarity with Microsoft Word, Excel, and Outlook.

Additional Assets

• Education, preferably in a related field, or a human resource and/or health and safety and/or insurance certificate-designation are assets. In the absence of these qualifications, significant consideration will be given to applicants with claims management experience.