Return to Work Coordinator
12750 Merit Drive Suite 1000
- Healthcare
- Internship
- Return to Work Coordinator
- case management
- workers' compensation
The Return to Work Coordinator supports injured employees by managing their medical care and facilitating their return to pre-injury work status through case management and coordination with medical providers, employers, and rehabilitation services. The role requires clinical expertise, typically held by a registered nurse with experience in acute care and workers' compensation. They communicate across multiple stakeholders to evaluate treatment, recommend work accommodations, and ensure compliance with managed care standards to maximize employee recovery and independence.
Overview
The Return to Work Coordinator is dedicated to assisting injured workers as they navigate the Return to Work process.
How you'll make an impact
- Provides medical management to workers compensation injured employees.
- Performs case management through telephonic contact with all medical providers, employers, claims professionals and ancillary service providers.
- Manage medical care in order to return injured employee to preinjury status.
- Reviews services of medical and rehabilitation providers and arranges for and coordinates appropriate evaluation, treatment, and counseling.
- Communicates with physician, injured worker, employer, referral source, and any other resource involved in worker's rehabilitation program.
- Evaluates home care services and equipment and determines need for home modifications.
- Coordinates home care.
- Communicates with employers to determine job requirements of pre-injury occupation and to explore light-duty, modified, or alternate employment as necessary.
- Analyzes results of treatment and medical status and reviews incoming provider reports.
- Identifies suitable employment opportunities consistent with individual's medical limitations/capabilities, aptitudes, and interests to restore individual to maximum independence.
- Generates reports to referral source to communicate case status, findings, and recommendations. Generates correspondence to referral source, medical providers, injured worker and other parties involved in the rehabilitation process.
- Participates in case conferences over the telephone, and participates in internal and external training to enhance and maintain medical proficiency.
- Documents case management observations, assessment, and plan in system.
About You
Required:
- Degree from applicable program of training and a minimum of 3 years clinical experience in an acute care setting required.
- Active Registered Nursing license or equivalent within the state of practice or states in which Case Management is performed.
Preferred:
- Bachelor's degree preferred.
- Worker's Compensation experience is preferred.
- A strong clinical or medical background
Behaviors:
- Demonstrates adequate knowledge of managed care with emphasis on use of criteria, guidelines and national standards of practice.
- Demonstrates good written and oral communications, organizational and leadership skills.
- Computer literate.
- Demonstrates good time management skills. Self starter.
Compensation and benefits
We offer a competitive and comprehensive compensation package. The base salary range represents the anticipated low end and high end of the range for this position. The actual compensation will be influenced by a wide range of factors including, but not limited to previous experience, education, pay market/geography, complexity or scope, specialized skill set, lines of business/practice area, supply/demand, and scheduled hours. On top of a competitive salary, great teams and exciting career opportunities, we also offer a wide range of benefits.
Below are the minimum core benefits you’ll get, depending on your job level these benefits may improve:
- Medical/dental/vision plans, which start from day one!
- Life and accident insurance
- 401(K) and Roth options
- Tax-advantaged accounts (HSA, FSA)
- Educational expense reimbursement
- Paid parental leave
Other benefits include:
- Digital mental health services (Talkspace)
- Flexible work hours (availability varies by office and job function)
- Training programs
- Gallagher Thrive program – elevating your health through challenges, workshops and digital fitness programs for your overall wellbeing
- Charitable matching gift program
- And more...
**The benefits summary above applies to fulltime positions. If you are not applying for a fulltime position, details about benefits will be provided during the selection process.
We value inclusion and diversity
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Inclusion and diversity (I&D) is a core part of our business, and it’s embedded into the fabric of our organization. For more than 95 years, Gallagher has led with a commitment to sustainability and to support the communities where we live and work.
Gallagher embraces our employees’ diverse identities, experiences and talents, allowing us to better serve our clients and communities. We see inclusion as a conscious commitment and diversity as a vital strength. By embracing diversity in all its forms, we live out The Gallagher Way to its fullest.
Gallagher believes that all persons are entitled to equal employment opportunity and prohibits any form of discrimination by its managers, employees, vendors or customers based on race, color, religion, creed, gender (including pregnancy status), sexual orientation, gender identity (which includes transgender and other gender non-conforming individuals), gender expression, hair expression, marital status, parental status, age, national origin, ancestry, disability, medical condition, genetic information, veteran or military status, citizenship status, or any other characteristic protected (herein referred to as “protected characteristics”) by applicable federal, state, or local laws.
Equal employment opportunity will be extended in all aspects of the employer-employee relationship, including, but not limited to, recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, transfer, demotion, compensation, benefits, layoff, and termination. In addition, Gallagher will make reasonable accommodations to known physical or mental limitations of an otherwise qualified person with a disability, unless the accommodation would impose an undue hardship on the operation of our business.




