Loren Zinder Ms, Phr, Cdms, Cpdm Email & Phone Number

San Francisco Bay Area, Us

Remote and onsite implementation of federal Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA/ADAAA), Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), Pregnant Workers Fairness Act (PWFA) and California's Family Rights Act (CFRA) legislatively compliant reasonable accommodation and disability management solutions to support integrated workers’ compensation, short and long-term disability, and leave of absence claims. • Absence and disability case management and return-to-work program development.• Implement effective and medically appropriate reasonable accommodations for all qualified disabilities, including occupational injuries and non-occupational serious health conditions. • Prepare essential function job analyses, ergonomic assessments, job descriptions, and job task banks.• Participate in interactive process dialogue with employees, line supervisors department managers, legal and medical providers.• Ensure cost containment by developing proactive workplace solutions that promote employee engagement, health, safety, productivity, inclusion, and retention.• Identify operationally feasible and medically appropriate reasonable accommodations with employees and department management supported by employee's functional abilities.• Provide effective reasonable accommodations and transitional work opportunities for injured and seriously ill employees challenged by physical, behavioral health and sensory limitations.

Wayne, Pa, Us

National remote telephonic and onsite local case management and job accommodation services for Roche Genentech exempt and non-exempt employees. Facilitated on-site interactive process discussions with employees, management, HR Business Partners, healthcare and ergonomic representatives at Genentech‘s South San Francisco main campus. • Coordinated necessary steps to assist employees with occupational injuries and non-occupational serious health conditions to continue safe, healthy, and productive work. • Proposed medically appropriate Stay at Work and Return to Work reasonable job accommodations through compliance with ADAAA federal and FEHA state legislation.• Implemented medically feasible cost-effective transitional work assignments for both cognitive and physical impairments that support their employees' ability to perform essential job functions and maintain gainful employment.

Disability case management and vocational consulting services with employers, third-party administrators, and insurance claims representatives to facilitate the safe and productive return to work of employees with occupational injuries or non-occupational medical conditions. Targeted services that successfully manage the consequences of illness, injury, and chronic disease in the workforce to:• Prevent injuries and provide reasonable job accommodation.• Support the return to medically appropriate work.• Reduce loss time and improve employee retention.• Promote workforce health, wellness, safety, and productivity.• Maintain compliance with both State and Federal guidelines and legislation.

Olympia, Wa, Us

Claims unit support within the Insurance Services Division and Return to Work Partnership department to expedite the safe and productive return to work of occupationally injured workers.• Complex case review and consultation with private providers, claims managers and adjudicators to identify and eliminate barriers, revolve vocational issues and improve employment outcomes.• Technical expertise to department claims staff, vocational consultants, employers, third party administrators, injured workers, and their legal representatives. • Reviewed required documentation to recommend eligible services and acceptable budgets in compliance with Washington's legislation, guidelines and administrative policies.• Participated in Lean initiatives and claims staffings to ensure a productive team approach and reinforce Labor and Industries evolving culture and business practices.

Renton, Wa, Us

Absence Disability Management (ADM) Consultant providing oversight of multi-state (AK, WA, MT, OR, and CA) leave of absence claims for exempt and non-exempt employees with occupational disabilities and non-occupational serious medical conditions. Escalation resource for complex leave, disability and return to work issues.• Facilitated communication between human resources, regional department managers, and employees including outsourced leave of absence and STD administrator, LTD vendor partner, Workers Compensation stakeholders and Legal.• Timely and appropriate delivery of system-wide Providence Health & Services absence and disability management programs covering over 70,000 union and non-union employees.• Participated in early redesign of Return to Work (RTW) program for employees with non-occupational serious health conditions including identifying system-wide current state policies and procedures over five states and multiple regions, developing team SharePoint, refining RTW health provider forms.• Cross-functional team member implementing STD standardization in initial regional markets in CA, WA, and MT.• Built effective relationships between medical provider, company, and employee to promote prompt exchange of information to determine employee’s functional capability.• Assessed employment restrictions and performance related to disabilities, leave and absence management protocol.• Subject matter expert to internal customers and external business partners on leave of absence and disability benefits issues, ADAAA job accommodation and transitional return to work, vendor management, and paid time off benefits.• Maintained compliance with regional guidelines and multi-state regulations including, WFLA, OFLA, CFRA, PDL, SDI, and FMLA federal legislation, corporate policies and collective bargaining agreements.

Identifed employment and training opportunities for veterans enrolling in federally-funded approved private post-secondary job training and placement programs.• Recommended viable training programs to improve veteran enrollees’ labor market competitiveness validated by their Military Occupational Specialties (MOS) and civilian experience.• Supported job placement and training programs with special emphasis on qualified veterans with service-connected disabilities. • Provided case management and student advisement services to ensure academic progress, successful program completion, and positive employment outcomes.

Developed cost-effective and customized Return to Work (RTW) and Stay at Work (SAW) vocational solutions.• Proactive provision of early intervention services.• ADAAA interactive process facilitation.• Transitional job accommodation and adjustment.• Alternate work assignment.• Worksite modification with adaptive devices.• Ergonomic evaluation and product implementation.• Essential function job analysis.• Cost-effective RTW plan development.

Arlington, Va, Us

Internal Vocational Rehabilitation Counselor and Subject Matter Expert (SME) at the Boeing Commercial Airplane's Renton WA manufacturing site, providing WC, STD and LTD disability case management services to exempt and non-exempt occupationally injured and non-occupational ill employees within a multi-union collective bargaining work environment. • Early claims intervention.• Essential function industrial, administrative and cognitive job analyses.• Office and industrial ergonomic evaluations and product recommendations.• ADA Interactive Process facilitation.• Identification and implementation of ADA compliant reasonable accommodations.• Transitional work adjustment.• Transferable skills analysis and career advisement. Successfully partnered with EHS disability management team members, operational managers, 1st line supervisors, union representatives, self-insured claims administrators, health and safety focals, in-house medical and legal practitioners to expedite medically appropriate, and legislative compliant positive employment outcomes. Actively worked with salaried and hourly employees and their treating physicians to overcome barriers and recommend viable Stay-at-Work and Return-To-Work vocational solutions to avoid injury incidents, reduce absenteeism, and improve Boeing's workforce health, safety and retention.

Vocational rehabilitation and disability case management contracted services for self-insured employers, third-party administrators, insurance companies, public and private sector workplaces.• Field Case Manager with MedInsights, Inc. providing vocational consulting and vocational rehabilitation plan development services. • Developed and implemented individualized modified and alternate ADA and FEHA compliant Return to Work reasonable accommodation programs with public sector employers such as Los Angeles Unified School District and Los Angeles Community College District.• Provided consulting services to private post-secondary schools to develop and market short-term vocational skills training programs to enhance their ability to attract potential student referrals from private sector revenue sources.

Contracting part-time instructor for claims personnel completing a Worker's Compensation Vocational Rehabilitation 12-week course taught three times per year for Workers Compensation Claims Administration (WCCA) and Workers Compensation Claims Professional (WCCP) Certification.• Developed course outline and assignment materials.• Presented lectures.• Prepared and graded examinations.

Vocational rehabilitation and disability case management.• Implemented early intervention Return to Work and Stay at Work ADA and FEHA compliant reasonable accommodations including individualized modified work, temporary transitional work and permanent job placement reassignment throughout Los Angeles, San Gabriel and Orange counties.

Vocational rehabilitation and disability case management services. Facilitated early intervention Return to Work and Stay at Work ADA and FEHA compliant reasonable accommodation.• Developed individualized modified and alternate return-to-work plans with public sector employers i.e. City of Santa Monica, City of Pasadena, MTA, and private sector employers, i.e. Walt Disney Company, ABC Studios, Earthlink, Home Depot and Robinson's May Dept. Stores.

Master Of Science, Ms, Psychology

Bachelor Of Arts, Ba, Psychology