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Work trials
Case managers may negotiate a work trial in another agency or in alternative employment where suitable duties are not available within the organisation.
Reasons for using a work trial may include:
- Rebuilding work skills, self confidence and establishing work routines following a long absence from the workforce and/or loss of work skills due to sustaining a work-related injury
- Work hardening; whereby an injured employee is offered a program aimed at improving physical or psychological work tolerances so as to allow a return to pre-injury work and pre-injury employer, or placement with a new employer
- Learning alternative work skills; when an employee is unable to return to work with the pre-injury employer and requires the opportunity to build new work skills in order to improve the injured employee's employment potential and increase the opportunity for placement with a new employer
- The employee has located a new potential employer where an employment vacancy exists, and there is a need to establish a working relationship with the potential new employer