WORKERS COMPENSATION RESOURCE

**WORKERS COMPENSATION RESOURCE** **Position Type:** Full-time, employee. **Salary Range:** $95,000 - $105,000 annually, DOE. **Location:** This position based onsite at the Service Center in Dallas, TX. **About the Company:** Ensign Services, Inc. (“ESI”) is a subsidiary of The Ensign Group, Inc. whose affiliated entities are considered national leaders in the fast-growing post-acute care industry. ESI provides service and support to over 400 facilities in the long-term care continuum that employ over 60,000 employees. ESI is known as the “Service Center” and provides the facilities and leaders it serves with “back-office” support in areas such as accounting, construction, compliance, human resources, information technology, learning and development, legal and risk management and recruiting. This structure allows the onsite leaders and caregivers to focus on day-to-day care and operational issues in their individual operations. What sets ESI apart from other companies is the quality of our most valuable resource - our people. We take our core values of **Celebration**, **Accountability**, **Passion for Learning**, **Love One Another**, **Intelligent Risk Taking**, **Customer Second**, and **Ownership** (“CAPLICO”) seriously. We want an individual in this role who will demonstrate these values through actions and words. **About the Opportunity:** The position of **Worker’s Compensation Resource** is part of the remote Service Center team and provides professional resource support to the locations and facilities to effectively assist in managing claims and third party insurance adjusters. This is an exciting and unique opportunity for an energetic and organized professional with a passion for workplace safety and employee injury claims risk management to join the resource team in providing risk related services and support to both on-site communities and locations with caregivers in the field. **Specific Duties include, but are not limited to:** - Oversee worker’s compensation programs in multiple jurisdictions. - Develop, implement and train on worker’s compensation claims and risk management programs for current facilities, new acquisitions, and New Employee Orientation programs. - Manage third party claims administrators and adjusters. - Maintain, update and continuously improve workers compensation risk management policies, processes, and systems. - Timely communicate information to the field by proactively managing worker’s compensation claims and claims risk mitigation. - Track and trend claims and claims administration cost for reporting and trending data; develop risk management plans and programs based on trending data. - Partner with community and agency leaders, claims administrators, and adjusters to achieve best claim outcomes. - Participate in quarterly claim reviews with brokers, TPAs, and internal partners and resources. - Advise and educate facility management and injured employees regarding transitional duty. - Collaborate with Safety Resources to further preventative risk management activities and initiatives designed to maximize loss prevention. - Provide facility support and guidance for OSHA log completion, maintenance, and electronic reporting requirements. - Be proactive and innovative in managing risk related to workplace injuries and prevention. - Periodic travel is required. **Position Requirements:** - 5 plus years worker’s compensation claims adjuster experience. - Texas Non-subscriber experience, preferred. - Bachelor’s degree preferred. - Preferred experience in skilled nursing and/or other healthcare environments. - Ideal candidate will have experience employed with a claims administrator, with expertise in day to day claims management. - Must be highly organized, disciplined, detail focused, and able to work independently with multiple clients and individuals. - Demonstrated ability to provide innovative problem solving and implementation of positive proactive process improvement. - Effective c…