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South HollandHybrid32 hours/week<3months
As a physician, you will work within a results-oriented multidisciplinary team with fellow physicians, occupational experts, and legal professionals at a government organization.
- The first year focuses on an internal basic training in insurance medicine.
- You will work under the supervision of an occupational health specialist.
- Time is allocated for clients and to reach a balanced judgment.
- You will have the opportunity to further develop your advisory and communication skills and to motivate decisions.
- After successfully completing the basic training, the training to become an occupational health specialist can be continued.
- The work-life balance is good; you work within regular office hours, and partial remote work is possible.
- You report to the manager of the Objections and Appeals department.
- The department handles client objections and appeals against decisions made by the organization.
- The ultimate goal is to achieve a solution where the client feels seen, heard, and helped.
What you do
- You are responsible for re-evaluating assessments in which the physician in the primary process has expressed their view on the client's capacity for work.
- You handle medical aspects of objection and (higher) appeal cases within relevant legislation and jurisprudence, taking into account the social context.
- This includes determining the medical condition, weighing various factors, and providing a reasoned assessment of whether the capacity for work was correctly established.
- You provide a re-evaluation of the medical aspects of the primary decision for objection, appeal, and higher appeal cases.
- You provide feedback/advice to physicians in the primary process to improve the quality of decisions.
- You are responsible for the medical part of the decision-making under supervision.
What they ask
- You have an academic medical degree and a medical examination successfully completed and recognized in the Netherlands.
- You are BIG-registered.
- You are involved with clients and passionate about the profession.
- You are motivated to (further) learn social security regulations.
- You are able to weigh existing and new information and draw conclusions based on available information.
- You possess persuasiveness and decisiveness.
- You have excellent oral and written communication skills.
- You are able to adapt your communication style to the situation.
- Preferably, you have experience in the field of insurance medicine, or demonstrable interest (e.g., through an elective internship).
Practical
- A one-year contract with the prospect of permanent employment.
- In the first year, you will have the opportunity to follow the internal basic training in insurance medicine.
- After the basic training, you can specialize as an occupational health physician (insurance physician profile) through a 4-year medical postgraduate training (MVO), paid by the organization. Exemptions are possible for medical specialists.
- Career development opportunities are offered, including in policy and innovation, research, training, specialization, and management.
- 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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