Joanne Hammer

Rehabilitation Case Manager-Occupational Health

-current

• Liase with Employees, Managers and Allied Health providers to fcilitate a comprehensive Case Management approach to rehabilitation following workplace injury.
• Promote, coordinate and facilitate early intervention, integrating appropriate needs based services to achieve realistic, sustainable outcomes.
• Network with a wide range of health, and other service providers to ensure best possible outcomes.
• Develop comprehensive individual rehabilitation plans with regular progress reviews.
• Monitor and review estimates and costs associated with case management, reporting to management. Regular reporting and provision of data as required.
• Ensure accurate recording of confidential information
• staff training

· Covid response-initial contact tracing

· Te Whatu Ora Workplace Violence project committee

· ACC Accredited Employer Health and Safety project team

Secondment-1 April 2024-April 2025

National Service Advisor-ACC Accredited Employer Programme

• -Subject matter expert-Injury management
• -Team Lead for one district
• -Supporting equity and alignment of services nationally
• · Provides advice and support to delivery service teams for case and injury management
• Responsible for decisions on a portfolio of claims for 6 districts with case management outsourced.
• Supports assurance quality checks of case management - technical
• Monitor Allied health and Service Provider relationships and outsourced services
• Supports the ongoing development of the service
• Oversights of budgets
• Development of policies and proceedures to support best practice
• Develop and implement staff training

• Advise on and coordinate health assessment and rehabilitation for all staff members injured in the workplace.

• Liase and negotiate with Employees, Management and treatment providers in developing a sustainable early rehabilitation/return to work plan.

• Meet deadlines/timeframes within the ACC partnership programme.

• Develop workplace health and wellbeing.

• Liase with variety of internal and external service providers and staff members.

• Network, build and maintain relationships with management and staff.

• Training of New Staff Members.

• Onsite, autonomous, proactive role.

• Comprehensive needs assessments of injured clients.

• Involvement as part of the hospital multidisciplinary team in discharge planning.

• Coordinating, negotiating and approving funding for ongoing rehabilitation / support needs, with various service providers, staff, employers and clients.

• Presentations to CHE Staff/Service Providers.

• Liaison, negotiation with employers.

• Liaison with Branch ACC Staff.

• Implementing financial entitlements.

• Interpretation of complex legislation.

• Training of new Staff Members (Case and Claims Management)

• Providing care for patients as an Enrolled nurse on an acute Orthopaedic ward

• Provided care for a range of people with differing disabilities in an inpatient psychopaedic hospital.