Workplace Health & Inclusion Specialist

University of British Columbia; Kelowna; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 135,000; Full time

Job summary

The Workplace Health Specialist at the University of British Columbia Okanagan advances workplace accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing, and safety through WRAP. The role delivers disability management, accommodation, and work reintegration services, partnering with employees, leaders, and health professionals to support early intervention and stay-at-work strategies.

It emphasizes equity, anti-ableism, and collaboration with campus stakeholders to remove barriers and promote inclusive work

Qualifications

• Minimum undergraduate degree in a relevant discipline.
• Five to seven years of related work experience.
• Ability to apply an equity lens to program development, service delivery, policy interpretation, and case management.
• Demonstrates a client-focused philosophy and commitment to confidentiality.
• Strong organizational, analytical, planning, and systems-thinking skills.

Responsibilities

• Provides comprehensive case management 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.
• Applies an equity-informed, trauma-informed, and person-centered approach when assessing employee needs and determining accommodation or reintegration strategies.
• Identifies, recommends, and supports the removal of systemic, procedural, and environmental barriers that may impede equitable access, accommodation, successful return to work, or ongoing employment participation.
• Collaborates with the Centre for Workplace Accessibility and other partners to support accessibility, accommodation, and inclusion initiatives across the university.

Skills

Relationship-building

Communication

Facilitation

Conflict-resolution

Equity lens

Confidentiality

Analytical

Systems-thinking

Organizational skills

Education

Undergraduate degree

Preferred undergraduate degree

Job description

The Workplace Health Specialist at the University of British Columbia Okanagan advances workplace accessibility, inclusion, wellbeing, and safety through WRAP. The role delivers disability management, accommodation, and work reintegration services, partnering with employees, leaders, and health professionals to support early intervention and stay-at-work strategies.

It emphasizes equity, anti-ableism, and collaboration with campus stakeholders to remove barriers and promote inclusive work