Duration: 6-month contract

Background Check Requirement: Successful completion of a satisfactory background check, as required.

About the Opportunity

Join a leading academic healthcare organization dedicated to advancing mental health, research, and employee wellness. This opportunity is ideal for a disability management professional who enjoys solving complex workplace accommodation challenges while helping employees successfully navigate illness, injury, and their return-to-work journey.

Working within a collaborative Health, Safety & Wellness team, you'll partner with employees, leaders, HR professionals, occupational health nurses, insurers, physicians, and union representatives to deliver thoughtful, compliant, and people-focused disability management solutions. Your expertise will directly support employee wellbeing while helping the organization maintain safe and effective operations.

What’s In It for You

You'll join a collaborative and supportive team that values knowledge sharing and partnership, where your expertise will make a meaningful impact on employee wellbeing through complex disability management and return-to-work initiatives. Working alongside experienced occupational health professionals in a large unionized healthcare workplace, you'll gain exposure to challenging cases while being part of a culture that encourages continuous learning, collaboration, and service excellence.

Your Responsibilities

- You’ll manage short-term and long-term disability claims, ensuring timely administration and compliance with organizational policies and applicable legislation.
- You’ll develop, coordinate, and monitor return-to-work and workplace accommodation plans in collaboration with employees,



managers, healthcare providers, insurers, and union representatives.
- You’ll interpret medical and functional information, translating restrictions into practical workplace accommodations while balancing operational requirements.
- You’ll provide subject matter expertise to leaders and HR partners on disability management, accommodation obligations, and legislative requirements, including WSIB and Human Rights considerations.
- You’ll prepare absence and disability reporting, identify trends, and contribute to process improvements that enhance the employee experience and organizational compliance.
- You’ll collaborate closely with Occupational Health, Safety, and HR teams to promote consistent practices and support continuous improvement initiatives.

Skills and Qualifications

- 2–3 years of progressive experience managing disability claims and return-to-work programs in a unionized environment.
- Bachelor's degree in Nursing, Kinesiology, or a related allied health or rehabilitation discipline.
- Strong knowledge of disability management principles, workplace accommodation, WSIB, Human Rights legislation, and collective agreements.
- Demonstrated ability to interpret medical documentation, assess functional abilities, and develop practical accommodation solutions using sound judgment and critical thinking.
- Excellent relationship-building, communication, negotiation, and conflict resolution skills with the ability to collaborate across multiple stakeholder groups.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office. Experience using Occupational Health software such as Cority is considered an asset. Certification as a CDMP or CRTW is also considered an asset.

📌 Disability Case Specialist (Toronto)
🏢 Altis
📍 Toronto