Description
A day in the life of a Bilingual Nurse Consultant
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, along with a comprehensive benefit package and defined benefit pension plan.
We are creating a pool of candidates for upcoming unilingual and bilingual permanent positions, with the intention of filling anticipated vacancies in 2026. Salary Grade: 213 From: $97,184.05 To: $114,334.38
Job Summary
Nurse Consultants (NCs) play an important role in the case management team by assessing and reviewing medical reports to identify and mitigate risk factors that impact recovery and return to work (RTW).
Major Duties & Responsibilities
- Render entitlement/compatibility decisions related to health care and dental treatment 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.
- Conduct assessment and/or file reviews to support the functional recovery case plan, by facilitating and guiding appropriate recovery action(s), including treatment/assessment until resolution of recovery obstacle intervene when needed with health care providers to resolve concerns and to promote the integration of the worker’s treatment and recovery into the RTW process.
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.
Disclosing conflicts of interest
As public servants, employees at the WSIB have a responsibility to act in an ethical way at all times to create a respectful workplace and maintain public trust. Job applicants are required to disclose any circumstance that could result in a real, potential or perceived conflict of interest.
Privacy information
We collect personal information from your resume, application, cover letter and references under the authority of the Workplace Safety and Insurance Act, 1997. The Talent Acquisition Centre and WSIB hiring parties will use this information to assess/validate your qualifications, determine if you meet the requirements of vacant positions and/or gather information relevant for recruitment purposes.