Medical Rehabilitation Consultant - Registered Nurse

 

Working hours: Full time 35 hours per week - This role is available on a part-time, job-share or full-time basis.

Location: Flexible, with travel to Swindon at least twice a month

         

 

The opportunity: 

 

Are you ideally a Registered Mental Health Nurse (RMN) or a Registered General Nurse (RGN)  Occupational therapist, or Physiotherapist and looking for a new challenge?

Do you seek to work with an excellent Global company with great benefits while working in an innovative and friendly team? If so, we would love to hear from you! 

 

We’re well established in the Group Insurance Market and are making a substantial impact through our unique and innovative proposition which is continuing to be extremely well received by our customers and their employees and has recently won several awards.

 

You’ll be joining our experienced Medical Rehabilitation Team, this is a home-based role with occasional travel to our Swindon office, which is fully expensed. It doesn’t matter if you’ve had previous Insurance experience or not, We enable comprehensive training, induction and one-to-one support will be provided to help the transition into the Insurance world. We would also welcome interest from you if you possess rehabilitation experience from working within income protection insurance.

 

Many of our employees work flexibly in a variety of different ways, including part-time, flexible hours, job share, an element of working from home or compressed hours. This is because we want the best people for our roles, and we recognise that sometimes those people aren’t available full-time. Please talk to us at interview about the flexibility you may need.

 

What will you be doing? 

 

Using your medical skills, your aim is to prevent absence through promotion of wellbeing services, signpost to aid recovery and support members and employers in returning to and sustaining work after illness absence.

After a comprehensive induction and training period. you’ll be working with our Claims Team, our Customers, and their Employees to refreshingly prevent sickness absence through various initiatives and enable early intervention to achieve a sustainable return to work when absence occurs.

 

There will be opportunities for you to enable Rehabilitation, Health, and Wellbeing training directly with customers. We will ensure orientation and induction to our friendly team of Innovators and encourage significant ongoing training and revalidation support. We value our Rehabilitation team engaging with our customers at all levels.

 

Some other key responsibilities will include:

• Assist in the rehabilitation management of income protection claims made through group risk products and provide propositional support as well as training and development for the team of claims case managers
• Managing around 25 cases when trained
• Work with the Zurich Corporate Risk (ZCR) Claims Case Manager, employers and employees and their medical advisors to draw up rehabilitation plans and graded return to work plans and support these through to successful outcomes and customer satisfaction
• Fully demonstrate medical skills, knowledge, best practice guidelines and research-based evidence in all rehabilitation activities
• When indicated, enable, support, and evaluate appropriate effective treatment provision through the Zurich provider network
• Able to deal with the challenges the role can also bring in the face of changing workplace issues
• Actively encourage knowledge transfer into Zurich claims and rehabilitation service departments to progress and update all colleagues’ levels of medical competence and confidence
• Possess a desire to make a positive contribution to ZCR Income protection insurance and work in a holistic and friendly team

 

 

What are we looking for?

 

Ideally, we are looking for a Registered Mental Health Nurse or Registered Adult nurse,  Physio or OT, with great communication skills and the ability to prioritise your own workload. Current experience of enabling care in working age people is essential. You will