Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant- Operations

Position: Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant- Benefit Operations
## Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant
- Benefit Operations Apply:
Home Worker - US:
Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA:
Portland, Maine, USA:
Full time:
Posted Today:
836449

When you join the team at Unum, you become part of an organization committed to helping you thrive.

Here, we work to provide the employee benefits and service solutions that enable employees at our client companies to thrive throughout life’s moments. And this starts with ensuring that every one of our team members enjoys opportunities to succeed both professionally and personally. To enable this, we provide:
* Award-winning culture
* Inclusion and diversity as a priority
* Performance Based Incentive Plans
* Competitive benefits package that includes:
Health, Vision, Dental, Short & Long-Term Disability
* Generous PTO (including paid time to volunteer!)
* Up to 9.5% 401(k) employer contribution
* Mental health support
* Career advancement opportunities
* Student loan repayment options
* Tuition reimbursement
* Flexible work environments### ###
* All the benefits listed above are subject to the terms of their individual Plans*.And that’s just the beginning...  With 10,000 employees helping more than 39 million people worldwide, every role at Unum is meaningful and impacts the lives of our customers. Whether you’re directly supporting a growing family, or developing online tools to help navigate a difficult loss, customers are counting on the combined talents of our entire team.

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Summary:

The Vocational Rehabilitation Consultant is responsible for reviewing, analyzing and interpreting vocational and medical information. Works collaboratively with claims professionals and other resources in multiple settings to assess vocational information and provides vocational opinion on duties and demands. Engages employers, claimants, healthcare providers and internal resources to facilitate return to work and stay at work services. Serves as a vocational subject matter expert and consultative resource for claims professionals, Return-to-Work Specialists (AO only), and business partners.

Delivers exceptional service in every interaction, taking full accountability for a positive experience.
** Principal Duties and Responsibilities
*** Application of vocational knowledge through assessment and synthesis of claim file information and ability to offer balanced conclusions
* Ability to concisely communicate (written and verbally) complex vocational issues in a fast-paced, team environment
* Partners with multiple resources to identify, develop, coordinate and implement complex vocational rehabilitation and return to work plans
* Collaboration with internal and external resources to gather pertinent vocational and medical documentation to accurately assess file direction
* Completes comprehensive forensic vocational assessments
* Provides coaching of claims professionals to increase vocational knowledge
* Supports enhancement of vocational practices, resources, training, and operational effectiveness across the organization.
* Designs and delivers vocational training, mentors vocational peers, serves as a subject matter expert across return to work and forensic areas, and represents the vocational team on cross-functional initiatives and committees.
* Operates with a sense of urgency and flexibility to meet the needs of a rapidly changing environment, while meeting performance standards set for quality and quantity of work
* Displays capacity and drive for learning and developing broad business and leadership skills; openness to diverse ideas & experiences and has self-awareness re: strengths and areas of development
* Required to maintain professional certifications, stays abreast of new trends in the…