Workplace Health Specialist

Location: hirify.global Okanagan Campus, Kelowna, British Columbia, Canada

Salary: CAD 8,087.08–12,117.08 monthly, prorated to 80% for a 0.80 FTE position.

Company

hirify.global is a university advancing research, innovation, learning, accessibility, equity, diversity, inclusion, and employee wellbeing.

What you will do

• Manage disability, accommodation, rehabilitation, stay-at-work, and return-to-work cases from intake through resolution or long-term disability transition.
• Develop individualized modified-duty, graduated return-to-work, and reintegration plans based on functional abilities, medical restrictions, job requirements, and operational needs.
• Review medical and functional abilities documentation and coordinate with employees, leaders, healthcare providers, WorkSafeBC, insurers, legal counsel, and other stakeholders.
• Coach employees and managers on accommodation, disability management, accessibility, and workplace reintegration.
• Identify and help remove systemic, procedural, and environmental barriers to equitable workplace participation.
• Develop procedures, educational resources, workshops, reports, and continuous improvement initiatives for the Work Reintegration and Accommodation Program.

Requirements

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Five to seven years of related work experience.
• Knowledge or experience in occupational health, nursing, rehabilitation, disability management, occupational therapy, kinesiology, health sciences, social work, counselling, psychology, or a related field.
• Strong consultation, facilitation, relationship-building, communication, analytical, organizational, and conflict-resolution skills.
• Ability to manage complex and sensitive situations with confidentiality, empathy, cultural humility, discretion, and sound judgement.
• Commitment to equity, diversity, inclusion, accessibility, psychological safety, and respectful workplace practices.

Nice to have

• Experience providing consultation, education, or facilitation related to accessibility, accommodation, disability inclusion, psychological health and safety, or workplace wellbeing.
• Experience working in a post-secondary academic environment.

Culture & Benefits

• Part-time 0.80 FTE employment with an ongoing job end date.
• Work within an inclusive, accessible, equitable, and psychologically safe university environment.
• Collaborate with campus partners, Human Resources colleagues, healthcare professionals, employee representatives, and hirify.global Vancouver counterparts.
• Contribute to university-wide accessibility, employee wellbeing, health promotion, and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Position is subject to satisfactory completion of required background checks.