Workplace Health Specialist - UBC, Kelowna

About this opportunity

The Workplace Health Specialist advances workplace accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing, and safety through the delivery of the Work Reintegration and Accommodation Program (WRAP). The role provides disability management, accommodation, and work reintegration services, partnering with employees, leaders, Human Resources, healthcare professionals, and external stakeholders to support early intervention, stay-at-work strategies, and return-to-work planning.

At UBC, we believe that attracting and sustaining a diverse workforce is key to the successful pursuit of excellence in research, innovation, and learning for all faculty, staff, and students. Our commitment to employment equity helps achieve inclusion and fairness, brings rich diversity to UBC as a workplace, and creates the necessary conditions for a rewarding career.

Responsibilities

The role encompasses case management, program administration, education, consultation, and health promotion across the campus community.

• Provides comprehensive case management services for faculty and staff experiencing illness, injury, disability, reduced work capacity, chronic health conditions, planned medical absences, or complex performance and attendance concerns.
• Leads the full cycle of disability management and return-to-work processes for assigned cases from intake through successful return to work, accommodation, long-term disability transition, or closure.
• Provides early intervention support and develops individualized rehabilitation, stay-at-work, graduated return-to-work, and modified duties plans based on employee functional abilities, job requirements, medical restrictions, and departmental operational needs.
• Serves as the central point of contact for employees, leaders, healthcare providers, WorkSafeBC, third-party insurers, and other authorized stakeholders throughout the disability management process.
• Requests, reviews, interprets, and evaluates medical documentation, functional abilities information, and rehabilitation recommendations to determine accommodation requirements and support safe return-to-work planning.
• Educates, coaches, and supports employees and managers throughout the disability management process.
• Collaborates with departments and key stakeholders to advance accessibility, wellbeing, inclusion, and equitable workplace participation through the identification and mitigation of systemic barriers.
• Develops, reviews, and implements procedures, guidelines, and best practices that support WRAP objectives and continuous improvement initiatives.
• Educates the UBC Okanagan community regarding WRAP, disability management, accommodation responsibilities, and successful workplace reintegration.

What you'll bring

Candidates must meet the minimum qualifications and demonstrate a strong alignment with equity, diversity, and inclusion principles.

• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Minimum five to seven years of related work experience, or the equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Willingness to respect diverse perspectives, including perspectives in conflict with one's own.
• Demonstrates a commitment to enhancing one's own awareness, knowledge, and skills related to equity, diversity, and inclusion.
• Undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline such as occupational health, nursing, rehabilitation, disability management, occupational therapy, kinesiology, health sciences, social work, counselling, psychology, or related fields (preferred).
• Ability to apply an equity lens to program development, service delivery, policy interpretation, and case management.
• Demonstrated client-focused philosophy and commitment to confidentiality.
• Strong relationship-building, consultation, facilitation, and conflict-resolution skills.

Compensation and perks

The compensation details and work arrangements for this position are structured as follows:

• Compensation range of $8,087.08 to $12,117.08 CAD monthly.
• Position is 0.80 FTE and will be prorated to 80% of the posted wage scale.
• Ongoing employment duration.