Nurse Consultant (Hybrid)

Our people have different ways of working and lifestyles. We’re committed to a mix of working in the office, in the field and from home. You have some flexibility in terms of where and how work gets done to help you balance your personal life and career goals.

About The Workplace Safety And Insurance Board (WSIB)

We’re here to help. When an injury or illness happens on the job, we move quickly to provide wage-loss benefits, medical coverage and support to help people get back to work. Funded by businesses, we also provide no-fault collective liability insurance and access to industry-specific health and safety information. We are one of the largest insurance organizations in North America covering over five million people in more than 300,000 workplaces across Ontario. For more information, visit wsib.ca.

At The WSIB, You’ll Have The Opportunity To:

• Explore many career paths and follow your passion
• Continuously learn and grow professionally
• Be recognized for the great work you do
• Participate in programs that support your health and wellbeing

You’ll also receive a competitive salary and may be eligible to participate in our health and dental plan.

We are recruiting for current and future temporary (up to 18 months) and permanent vacancies

Salary From: $94,583.02 To: $111,274.34

Job Summary

Nurse consultants participate in the WSIB structured case management framework by:

• Interacting, developing and maintaining collaborative working relationships with case managers, return to work specialists, workers, worker families, health care providers and other WSIB staff to recognize and respond to complex needs, make and communicate timely, quality evidenced based/informed health care entitlement decisions.
• Apply nursing knowledge, skill and judgement when providing clinical advice, opinion and guidance on the trajectory of a worker’s recovery plans and/or interpret medical/clinical findings as needed to ensure case progression towards achieving the best possible return to work, recovery, and/or quality of life outcomes throughout the case life cycle.
• Undertaking interventions to identify and mitigate obstacles to return to work and/ or recovery, resolving what is clearly of a medical/clinical nature and addressing non-medical issues appropriately, to prevent cases from becoming chronic. The individual case characteristics and nature of the obstacles will determine the scope and duration of an intervention.

Major Duties & Responsibilities

• Render health care and dental entitlement/compatibility decisions based on legislation, policy, best practices and clinical judgement and communicate them, verbally and in writing.
• Attempt to resolve objections to health care entitlement decisions made, manage reconsideration requests, and if unable to resolve the objection, arrange for access and process the objection.
• Implement health care components of appeals decisions within required timeframes.

Education Job Requirements:

University completion at undergraduate level with a specialty focus in Nursing or, prior to 2005, a diploma or bachelor's degree in Nursing as recognized by the College of Nurses of Ontario. A certificate of registration as a Registered Nurse as a member in good standing with the College of Nurses of Ontario in the General Class.

Experience

Three years prior experience in clinical environment (i.e. primary health care, occupational health, adult acute/community care).

Our commitment to equity, diversity and inclusion

We respect and value the diversity of our people. We strive to create an environment where employees can be themselves and where our differences are celebrated.

The WSIB is committed to being accessible and inclusive, and following barrier-free and accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).

Should you require accommodation through any stage of the recruitment process, please let us know when we contact you and we will work with you to meet your needs.