Absence/Leave Case Management Supervisor

Description

Supervises the direction of appropriate, timely and cost-effective delivery of health care related to disability, urgent and emergency care, work limitations, transitional return to work plans, accommodations and part-time work for workers' compensation and nonworkers' compensation illness and injury. Responsible for oversight of paid leave programs supporting qualified absences due to occupational and non-occupational events. Determines service needs, selects and evaluates the services of appropriate network providers, and makes recommendations for retention or removal from the network. Identifies and coordinates the process of cases requiring physician-level review and implements recommendations. Identifies cases involving high-frequency and high-risk injuries/illnesses and performs ongoing evaluation and treatment plans. Determines essential job functions and identifies and implements necessary limitations, accommodations and part-time work for high-frequency/high-risk cases to reduce the length of disability. Applies management skills to review departments' return to work efforts and provide strategic focus to improve results. Employees in this classification supervise three or more full-time equivalent employees every week. Direction is over a permanent status-continuing function, not a collection of employees assigned to complete a project. Management duties include interviewing, selecting and training of employees; setting and adjusting their rates of pay and hours of work; planning and directing their work; appraising their productivity and efficiency for the purpose of recommending promotions or other changes in their status; handling their complaints and grievances and disciplining them when necessary. Management responsibilities include the authority to hire, fire, or promote assigned employees or make recommendations that are given particular weight. Employees may spend time performing many of the same duties as subordinate employees. Under FLSA, this is the exempt job classification for this title. Incumbents in this position must meet the full criteria for exempt status: salary level, salary basis, and duties tests.