Key Skills

Job Description

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 escalate into a long-term sick leave. Contribute to the ongoing improvements of processes and systems to minimize manual work and optimize our added value. The rate for independent contractors is €60 - €84/hour.

Core Responsibilities

Manage long-term and complex sickness absence cases from start to finish, coordinating employees, managers, HR teams, and external occupational health providers to support sustainable reintegration and ensure legal and policy compliance. Maintain accurate case records and reporting, identify opportunities to prevent or improve absence cases, and contribute to process, automation, and AI improvements.

Requirements

The role calls for expertise in managing complex sickness absence and reintegration cases, applying the Dutch Gatekeeper Act and internal policies, and coordinating with employees, managers, HR teams, and external providers. Strong stakeholder advisory, administration, reporting, and process-improvement capabilities are indicated; no specific education or years of experience are stated.