Comp/Claims Unit Leader, COMP

Duties

• Coordinates with incident agency and local law enforcement regarding incident agency investigations.
• Coordinates with incident agency regarding investigation teams to document claims and accidents.
• Responsible for overall management and direction of all compensation for injury specialist and claims specialist assigned to the incident.
• Obtains and applies local administrative guidelines pertaining to APMC, medical facilities, law enforcement contacts, and compensation procedures.
• Manages and supervises compensation/claims unit.
• Coordinates with personnel to ensure completion of injury/illness claims documents are in adherence to established procedures (resolve injury/illness/claims problems/questions with incident personnel).
• Coordinates injury/illness reporting and treatment authorizations.
• Coordinates with agency for APMC payments.
• Interact and coordinate with medical unit leader and safety officer.
• Interacts and coordinates with medical providers to obtain medical treatment, completion of paperwork and facilitate payment.
• Reports to supervisor injury/illness/claims trends.
• Provides copies of injury records to time unit, provide contractor deduction information and contractor claim information to procurement unit.
• Ensures that all compensation for injury and claims logs and forms are up to date and routed to the proper agency for processing.
• Coordinates with appropriate agency(s) on hospitalized personnel.
• Documents follow-up action needed for incident agency.

Position Knowledge and/or Requirements

• Satisfactory performance as a INJR and CLMS
  AND
• Satisfactory position performance as a COMP