Job Summary

Come work as a Placement Advisor with Vancouver Coastal Health (VCH)! Vancouver Coastal Health is looking for a Placement Advisor to join the Employee Health team. Apply today to join our team!

As a Placement Advisor with Vancouver Coastal Health you will:

• Provide advice, support and education related sustainable accommodations to employees who are ill or injured.
• Utilize best practice guidelines, research studies, published consensus opinions and/or case law findings, to identify sustainable accommodation opportunities that integrate employees back into the workplace in meaningful and productive employment.
• Collaborate with WorkAbility Team and Workplace Health to foster safe and effective return to work plans.
• Make recommendations to the Employer on the accommodation issues as required.

Key Accountabilities

• Provides advice, support and education related to employees with disabilities and accommodation and return-to-work plans and priorities. Identifies sustainable accommodation opportunities to integrate employees back into the workplace in meaningful and productive employment and works collaboratively with the employee, HR Advisor, WorkAbility Team and managers to foster a culture of acceptance for disabled employees to be effective in the workplace.
• Establishes accommodation plans to address the employee’s limitations and restrictions, and meet the managers’ needs with respect to the work place demands. Arranges for orientation of the employee, establishes expectations, and ensures employee’s needs are captured to ensure a smooth transition and re-entry into the workforce. Follows up after each accommodation to determine success and assess if further action to be taken.
• Conducts legal analysis as part of recommendations as to whether the accommodation should proceed or not due to undue hardship.
• Shares appropriate medical information to facilitate assessment with the manager as to whether the accommodation is appropriate to the unit and sustainable.
• Reviews completed Disability Attendance Forms and assesses the appropriate course of action.
• Develops strategies that promote the acceptance of the duty to accommodate program and inclusion of disabled employees in to the workplace.
• Collaborates with WorkAbility Team and Workplace Health to ensure a safe and effective return to work.
• Educates clients on employee/labour relations issues, Human Rights legislation and obligations, which reflect industry standards, best practices and VCH’s core competencies.
• Investigates and facilitates the resolution of issues/grievances/disputes related to duty to accommodate, grievances, investigations, third party preparations and advocacy.
• Utilizes effective targeted communication strategies for unions, employees and other stakeholders to provide information and gain acceptance.
• Provides vocational counseling to staff who have been off work for a period of time to better enable the re-integration into the workforce.
• Interprets and applies the collective agreements, People policies, legislative requirements and other legal documents.
• Ensures consistent application of processes and procedures related to duty to accommodate, human rights complaints, etc.

Qualifications

Education & Experience

• University degree in a related field, Human Resources certificate and/or Disability Management certificate (NIDMAR)
• Five (5) to seven (7) years of recent related experience in a unionized health care environment, or an equivalent combination of education, training and experience.

Knowledge & Abilities

Skills:

• negotiation
• analytical
• relationship management
• communication
• emotional intelligence
• conflict resolution
• creative solution-focused
• current computer literacy in Excel, Power Point, Word

Knowledge:

• health care jobs
• disability management
• labour code
• collective agreements
• jurisprudence
• human rights code

Closing Statement

As per the current Public Health Orders (Long Term Care/Seniors Assisted Living Provincial Health Officer Order and the Health Sector Order), as of October 26, 2021, all employees working for Vancouver Coastal Health must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Proof of vaccination status will be required.

WHY JOIN VANCOUVER COASTAL HEALTH?

VCH is a world class innovator in medical care, research and teaching, delivering service to more than one million BC residents. At VCH, we embrace thinking boldly, taking smart risks, and 'going first' when we believe it will lead to the best possible outcomes for patients and their families. We invite you to join us in creating healthy lives in healthy communities by showcasing our passion for care, connection to the communities we serve and our culture of teamwork that makes VCH a great place to work.• Comprehensive health benefits package, including MSP, extended health and dental and municipal pension plan• Grow your career with employer-paid training and leadership development opportunities• Wellness supports, including counselling, critical incident and innovative wellness services are available to employees and their immediate families• Award-winning recognition programs to honour staff, medical staff and volunteers• Access to exclusive discount offers and deals for VCH staff Diversity, equity, and inclusion are essential to our goals of creating a great place to work and delivering exceptional care. We acknowledge and accommodate unique differences and ensure special measures are in place so that all prospective and current employees are given an opportunity to succeed.We are committed to building a representative workforce and encourage applications reflecting diversity of sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, racialization or ancestry, disability, political belief, religion, marital or family status, age, and/or status as a First Nation, Metis, Inuit, or Indigenous person.Vancouver Coastal Health is proud to be recognized as one of Canada's Top 100 Employers in 2023.Only short-listed applicants will be contacted for this posting. ***Employees of VCH must apply online via the Internal Career Portal on CareerHub, you are currently viewing the External Career Portal. Refer to the https://my.vch.ca/working-here/job-postings site for instructions on how to view internal job postings and how to apply as an employee. Current VCH employees who apply to this posting using this external site will be considered as an external candidate. Seniority will not apply.***Thank you for your interest in Vancouver Coastal Health.