Trainee Case Manager - Workers Compensation

Trainee Case Manager - Workers Compensation

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About the role
Our Trainee Program offers a step in the door to an opportunity to develop into a Case Manager. We provide customised training, rewarding salaries, and the support you need to launch your new career. This is a customer facing role in a rewarding and challenging environment.
Hybrid working arrangements
In alignment with our commitment to fostering a flexible and dynamic work environment, we have adopted a hybrid working approach that acknowledges the importance of in-person collaboration while recognising that the determination of your work location will be based on a range of factors to ensure both individual preferences and operational requirements are met.
The Trainee Program
You will undergo 4 weeks' theoretical and practical training in workers' compensation case management. During this time, you will learn about:

The life cycle of a claim
Medical treatment types and appropriate management
Payment of medical expenses
Weekly compensation entitlements
Return to work obligations, and how to facilitate early return to work outcomes
The legal side of workers' compensation
Dealing with challenging conversations

You will spend time working in a team developing the below skills:

Arranging medical examinations
Taking a high volume of client and customer calls
Assessing and processing payments to stakeholders
Developing case management strategies
Reviewing and monitoring treatment requests
Liaising with stakeholders (injured workers, employers, and providers)

Further training throughout your first 12 months' will be provided to expand your knowledge of workplace injury management, return to work planning, dispute resolution and workers' compensation law.
Applicant Requirements:
Do you have a background in customer service or medical administration? Or are you currently working in an insurance claims environment looking for a career change, or have you recently graduated in Law, Business, Nursing, Allied Health, Psychology? If so this could be the opportunity for you!
Applicants must have:

Excellent interpersonal skills, including the ability to liaise effectively with workers, employers, medical, paramedical and legal practitioners
Excellent communication skills - both written and verbal
Strong customer service skills and the ability to handle high volumes of phone based customer enquiries
Previous medical administration experience an advantage
Previous experience in the Insurance, Allied Health, Legal industries an advantage
The ability to work concurrently across multiple technology platforms
Strong analytical and problem solving skills
The ability to plan and organise work in a manner that ensures timeframes are managed
Ability to work within a team in an office-based environment
Sensitivity to issues related to people with medical, cultural and social needs
Be an Australian Citizen or Permanent Resident

You will provide needs-based services to people with work related injuries as well as be responsible for:

Active management of claims for compensation to deliver appropriate and timely treatment and promote return to work
Ensuring injured workers receive entitlements in accordance with the Workplace Injury Rehabilitation and Compensation Act 2013
Liaising with injured workers, and their employers and treating practitioners to facilitate and support medical management and return to work activities

About DXC
DXC provides policy and claims management services to government and organisations across Australia. We support organisations and those injured at work throughout the entire claims process. Based on decades of experience our policy and claims teams have an impressive track record of reliable service.
DXC is committed to building better futures for our customers, colleagues, the environment, and our communities. We take care of each other and foster a culture of inclusion, belonging and corporate citizenship.
If you would like to be part of a culture that drives innovation, delivers results, rewards performance and encourages ideas, then please press the "" button to submit your resume.
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