As a physician, you will work within a results-oriented team with fellow physicians, occupational experts, and legal professionals. The first year will largely focus on an internal basic training in insurance medicine, under the supervision of an occupational health specialist. Time is allocated for clients and for reaching a well-considered judgment, as well as for developing your advisory and conversational skills.
After successfully completing the basic training, it will be jointly determined whether the training to become an occupational health specialist will be continued. You will report to the manager of a department dealing with objection and appeal cases.
What you will do.
- Responsible for re-evaluating the assessment in which the physician in the primary process has presented their view on the client's capacity for work.
- Handling medical aspects of objection and (higher) appeal cases within relevant legislation and jurisprudence, taking into account the social context.
- Determining the medical condition, weighing various factors, and providing reasoned arguments on whether the capacity for work has been correctly established.
- Providing a re-evaluation of the medical aspects of the primary decision for objection, appeal, and higher appeal cases.
- Providing feedback/advice to physicians in the primary process to improve the quality of decisions.
- Under the supervision of the occupational health specialist, being responsible for the medical part of the decision-making process.
What they ask
- Academic degree in medicine and a medical examination recognized in the Netherlands.
- BIG-registered.
- Involved with clients and passionate about the profession.
- Motivated to learn (further) about social security regulations.
- Able to weigh existing and new information and draw conclusions based on available information.
- Possess persuasiveness and decisiveness.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills.
- Able to adapt your communication style to the situation.
- Preferably, experience in the field of insurance medicine, or demonstrable interest, for example, through an elective internship.
Practical
- Opportunity to follow an internal basic training in insurance medicine.
- After the basic training, specialization as an occupational health physician (insurance physician) through a 4-year medical postgraduate training, paid for by the organization.
- Career development opportunities in policy and innovation, research, training, specialization, and management.
- Good work-life balance with regular office hours and partial remote work possible.
- Good secondary employment conditions including 8% holiday pay, an 8.33% year-end bonus, travel and home office allowance, and a good pension scheme.
- A choice plan for fiscally attractive exchange of employment conditions.
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