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Workers

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For Workers

RehabCo is here to help you. We want to understand you, your injury, your needs and your goals. There’s nothing more rewarding for us than helping people recover and return back to work, and in many cases, return to enjoying life again.

When you commence working with RehabCo, a RehabCo consultant will be allocated to you. They will work with you, as well as your doctor, the Agent (insurer) and other health professionals.

A Rehabilitation Consultant will assist you by:

  • Assessing your individual needs and capacity for work
  • Assessing and identifying duties that will allow your recovery at work and support improvements in capacity
  • Suggesting modifications to technique or other options to help reduce work demands and risk of re-injury
  • Identifying and addressing risks that may impede recovery at/or return to work
  • Providing education about your injury, timeframes for recovery and management
  • Liaising with your employer, nominated treating doctor (NTD), other health professionals and the agent

RehabCo works with you and your employer to develop a Return to Work (RTW) goal and plan. A Recover @ Work Plan is also developed to provide a structured and gradual return to work in the duties deemed suitable. Any specific considerations recommended by your Rehabilitation Consultant or NTD will also be noted to ensure all parties are aware and adhere to the plan.

Most workers are able to recover and remain with their pre-injury employer following injury. If this is not possible within a reasonable timeframe, RehabCo can help with transition to a new employer through:

  • Vocational Assessment (identifying suitable work options)
  • Providing job seeking support, including resume preparation, job applications and interview skills
  • Identification of Work Trial opportunities (or Job Cover Placement Programme)

We respect and rely on the contribution of workers in workplace rehabilitation. Your ability to provide us with knowledge about your unique situation and keep this communication open and honest throughout the rehabilitation process will help us to help you. Conversely, we will ‘check in’ with you regularly and provide clear information to you about:

  • The Injury Management Process
  • Everyone’s roles
  • Your Return/Recover at Work Plan
  • Your Rights and Responsibilities
  • Privacy of Personal Information
  • Specialised services – that may assist you

Privacy Statement Summary

RehabCo collects relevant personal information in order to carry out its functions of assessing client needs and providing an individual rehabilitation programme. Please refer to RehabCo’s Privacy Policy Statement which details the approach to the collection, management, storage, handling, use, accessibility, updating and disclosure of personal and sensitive information in accordance with the

Privacy Act 1988, The Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Act 2000, the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) and Health Records and Information Privacy Act 2002 (NSW).

RehabCo respects your privacy. As per the Privacy Policy Statement, you have the right to access your personal information. You have the right to correct any personal information which you think is incomplete, inaccurate or out of date. You have the right to register a complaint or incident concerning a privacy matter with RehabCo’s Privacy Officer. A client/worker’s personal information cannot be disclosed without the client’s permission through a consent or release of information form.

Consent

It is not possible to provide workplace rehabilitation services without your consent to obtain and release relevant information. If the necessary consent is not provided to enable the Rehabilitation Consultant to have discussions with the nominated treating doctor, employer, health professionals, agent, potential employers or training organisations RehabCo are unable to partner with you to achieve your return to work goals.

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