Those responsible for return-to-work services are certified to have achieved, and maintain, internationally recognized levels of professional competence. The same professional standards and certification requirements are promoted to their counterparts in partner and stakeholder organizations.
As the process of ensuring successful job retention and return-to-work outcomes is continuously evolving, those responsible for return-to-work services must achieve and maintain certified professional competence.
Guideline code
RTW_03800
Mechanism
Mechanism
- The management should require those of its employees responsible for return-to-work services to have internationally recognized professional certification, and communicate this to those responsible for return-to-work services in its partner and stakeholder organizations.
- The management should ensure that its requirement that employees responsible for return-to-work services have professional certification is well documented and understood.
- The management should provide a clear assessment of employees’ development needs and work with them to assist them to achieve and maintain internationally recognized professional certification.
- The management should provide those of its employees responsible for return-to-work services the opportunity to take internationally recognized professional certification examinations.
- The management should support those of its employees responsible for return-to-work services so that they can meet the requirement to achieve and maintain professional certification on an ongoing basis.
Structure
Structure
- The board and management should require that those responsible for return-to-work services in the institution apply to take the internationally recognized professional certification examinations once they have completed their training and have some work experience, as defined by internationally accepted professional standards.
- The board and management should require that those responsible for return-to-work services in the institution maintain their international professional certification by complying with all certification maintenance requirements.
- The board and management should promote international professional certification and its maintenance as a requirement for those who provide return-to-work services in its partner and stakeholder organizations, and to service providers and employers.
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Guideline 28. Certification of return-to-work professionals
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Guideline_1
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