Vocational Rehabilitation Specialist

Overview

Staffing Coordinator at Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board

Job Summary: Customer service is the key focus of this position in a team environment. Team members are interdependent, accountable to each other and are expected to provide superior service to our clients.

Provides information, assistance, and counselling to clients (injured workers, dependent spouses and children) returning to the labour force by helping the client to develop a vocational rehabilitation plan, guiding client through upgrading, retraining, and job search strategies, as required, and negotiating employment placements. Estimates and approves or recommends expenditures associated with carrying out the rehabilitation plan. Prepares recommendations for the Team regarding client’s ongoing earning capacity.

Duties & Responsibilities

1. Participates as member of a Case Management team in order to be involved in management of individual cases to: lead the preparation of team action plan; provide support and encouragement to team members to function together for benefit of the customer.
2. Develops employment, re-employment and training opportunities for client through direct contact with employers, unions, educational institutions and other external groups; includes research on available training programs, job market, job requirements, pay, physical and educational demands of various jobs, on a continuing basis. Provides career counselling and advice to clients.
3. Assesses information on the capabilities of unable because of work injury to return to pre-injury employment, through gathering and integrating diagnostic information from medical, psychological and vocational testing, personal interviews, recognizing TSA’s including physical, mental, educational, social, economic, and environmental factors. Determines need for and administers or arranges vocational testing of clients and interprets and reports on the results.
4. Facilitates worker’s return to or continuation in alternate or modified work in complex situations through contacts with the worker, employer and health care professional, analysing existing or anticipated barriers to return to work. Proposes, negotiates and implements solutions, solicits co-operation of all participants.
5. Creates a financially viable vocational rehabilitation plan in consultation with the client, covering as needed, upgrading, retraining and job search strategies aimed at returning the client to the labour force. Prepares written plans, including expectations and estimates of the expenditures, time frames and outcomes.
6. Guides clients through a rehabilitation process toward renewed employment by advising on appropriate courses of action, motivating and assisting the client to set priorities and goals, counselling client to cope with mental and emotional aspects of rehabilitation, assessing attendance, performance and addressing with appropriate resources to remove barriers to success.
7. Negotiates employment and training placements for clients with pre-injury or alternate employers through identifying and arranging employment opportunities with employers. Inspects employer’s premises in order to assess opportunities for placement of client, including special needs equipment and/or job site modifications.
8. Travels on a regular basis to personal residences and to employers’ work sites in assigned region.
9. Summarizes facts and analysis relating to the individual client in written reports.
10. Assists family members and significant others of the client by listening, explaining, identifying and presenting options during the adjustment process.
11. Analyzes and summarizes client’s transferable skills, abilities and physical capabilities to determine market ability and earning capacity including market research and analysis of job availability.
12. Recommends continuation, suspension, or termination of rehabilitation benefits to client in accordance with client’s progress, applicable legislation and Board policy.
13. Responsible for vocational rehab entitlements and benefits, such as travel expenses, tuition, books, and wage subsidies such as training on the job.
14. Instructs clients in job search techniques covering the theoretical and practical aspects of job search.
15. Participates in team meetings based case management.

Qualifications

A university degree in Psychology, Sociology, Social Work or a health related field such as Nursing, Kinesiology, or Occupational Therapy. Education must include the following core areas:

• Assessment Approaches
• Disabling Conditions and/or Disadvantaged Groups
• Intervention and Strategies
• History and Systems Related to Human Services
• Professional Ethics
• Communication and Interviewing Skills

Plus three years of experience counseling persons who have a disability or disadvantage.

Candidates must hold or be eligible for the Certified Vocational Professional (CVP), Registered Rehabilitation Professional (RRP) or the Certified Canadian Rehabilitation Counselor (CCRC) designation.

Application Deadline

Application Deadline: October 14, 2025

Application Details

It is the responsibility of the applicant to ensure that the application is received through the online application system prior to close. Each application must include a cover letter explaining how each qualification is met and an updated resume.

The Saskatchewan Workers' Compensation Board is committed to achieving a representative workforce. Members of designated groups (women, aboriginal people, people with disabilities and visible minorities) are encouraged to apply.

Seniority level

• Associate

Employment type

• Full-time

Job function

• Administrative and General Business

Industries

• Claims Adjusting
• Actuarial Services

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