Re-Integration Advisor

Russell Tobin; Amsterdam; Hybrid; EUR 45,000 - 65,000; Full time

Job summary

Russell Tobin is seeking a Reintegration Advisor on a contract-freelancing/zzp basis in the Netherlands (hybrid). Duration is until Dec 2026 with potential extension into Q1, and you act as the single point of contact for managers and employees on long-term sickness absence, ensuring compliance with the Gatekeeper Act and internal policies.

You coordinate with external Arbo services, provide guidance to navigate cases, shorten time to sustainable reintegration, and contribute to process

Job description

Type: Contract-Freelancing/zzp

Mode: Hybrid

Duration: Until Dec 2026 with potential extension for Q1

As a Reintegration Advisor you work in a team of specialists to ensure seamless coordination of long term and/or complex sickness absence cases.

You function as the single point of contact for the manager and employee for (long-term) sickness absence cases, and while you are responsible for ensuring compliance with both the Dutch Gatekeeper Act and the company’s internal policies, you add true value by advising and guiding your stakeholders on how to navigate the employee’s sick absence case.

In this role, you are also the single point of contact to the external Arbo services (e.g. Company Doctor, mediator, etc), where you bring in your expertise to find solutions in challenging situations.

The role ensures our employees and people managers get optimal support in order to shorten the amount of time before sustainable full reintegration as much as possible by providing them advice, instructions and status-updates. The role proactively identifies areas for improvement with regard to managing sickness and actively advises the company when there are opportunities for interventions and or to improve our policies and processes around sickness management. In order to assist our stakeholders to the best of our abilities, the role contributes and assists to different automation and AI integration programmes.

Key Responsibilities.

Manage end-to-end sickness absence process portfolio for all long term and/or complex cases, while connecting with, and managing, the relevant stakeholders to ensure compliance and progress of reintegration.

Manage all mandatory information, tasks and responsibilities to both the employee and the manager during a sickness absence case in accordance with the Gatekeeper Act and internal policies.

Manage all mandatory information, tasks and coordination to & with external Arbo services (e.g. Company Doctor, mediators, workability specialists)

Ensures meticulous administration of sickness absence cases within scope, which lead to trusted data and reporting (and steer data/analytics), which requires strong partnering with other stakeholders such as HROps teams.

Ensures compliance with the NL social security institution.

Provides regular and ad-hoc reporting to all relevant stakeholders such as HRA, business leaders.

Identify non-sickness related matters and find a way to resolve those matters before they escalation into a long-term sick leave.

Contribute to the ongoing improvements of processes and systems to minimize manual work and optimize our added value.