Workplace Rehabilitation Services

Caliso provides fully funded Workplace Rehabilitation Services across industries for sustainable return to work.

Caliso Workplace Health is a SIRA accredited Workplace Rehabilitation Provider offering services to support injured workers, employers, treating practitioners, and insurers throughout the recovery and return-to-work journey. Services are fully funded by the relevant Workers’ Compensation insurer.

Our team are allied health professionals including Occupational Therapists, Physiotherapists, Exercise Physiologists, Rehab Counsellors and Psychologists who also have experience across employer and rehabilitation provider environments. This gives us strong insight into scheme requirements, claim expectations, workplace challenges, and clinical factors that influence successful outcomes.

Early Workplace Rehabilitation has been shown to minimise time away from work, improve worker wellbeing, support employer obligations and improve claim outcomes.

If you are an injured worker, employer, insurer, or healthcare provider seeking workplace rehabilitation services in NSW, our experienced team is ready to help throughout the recovery and return-to-work journey. Services are fully funded by the relevant Workers’ Compensation insurer.

What services we provide:

  • Early Intervention

  • Return-to-work planning

  • Suitable duties identification

  • Medical case conferencing

  • Stakeholder liaison

  • Functional Assessments

  • Workplace Assessments

  • Ergonomic Assessments

  • Job task assessments

  • Vocational rehabilitation (where a worker cannot return to their pre-injury role)

  • Activities of Daily Living assessments

Frequently Asked Questions

  • A workplace rehabilitation provider supports injured workers, employers, insurers, and treating professionals to plan and coordinate a safe and sustainable return to work.

  • In NSW workers compensation claims, workplace rehabilitation services are funded by the relevant workers compensation insurer.

  • Early involvement can help identify barriers, support suitable duties, improve communication, and reduce the risk of prolonged time away from work.

  • If returning to your pre-injury role is not suitable, vocational rehabilitation can help identify alternative duties, retraining options, or new employment pathways.

  • Referrals can typically be made by:

    • Employers

    • Insurers

    • Workers

    • Treating doctors

    • Solicitors

    • Injury management advisors

    • Return to Work Coordinators

  • We communicate regularly with treating practitioners to:

    • Clarify work capacity

    • Discuss suitable duties

    • Support evidence-based recovery

    • Coordinate rehabilitation goals

    • Facilitate safe return-to-work planning

  • Where suitable duties are unavailable, we can assist employers to:

    • Identify alternative tasks

    • Explore host employment arrangements

    • Develop graded work trials

    • Support redeployment options

  • Yes. Effective workplace rehabilitation can help reduce:

    • Lost time injuries

    • Wage replacement exposure

    • Treatment costs

    • Claim duration

    • Risk of long-term work absence while improving recovery and return-to-work outcomes.