Manager, WorkCare Services, LGIS
Lauren’s role as Manager WorkCare services at LGIS has her overseeing LGIS’s people risk programs, including the health and wellbeing program, injury prevention and injury management services, and the human resources risk management services. Lauren and her team work collaboratively to provide support, advice and services to assist local governments with the prevention of physical and psychosocial injuries, or in the unfortunate event of an injury occurring, helping the member get the injured worker back to as work quickly and safely as possible.
Lauren is an accredited exercise physiologist with over seven years’ experience in the workers’ compensation setting including management of the LGIS Injury Management Program since 2020. Lauren’s experience extends to on-the-ground delivery of services and providing education and support to employers and workers.
The LGIS health and wellbeing program is designed to assist members in creating a healthier workplace, improving awareness of health issues, lowering risk factors, and improving workers’ safety performance.
As part of this program, LGIS members receive an annual funding allocation and access to a wide range of health and wellbeing services through a panel of eight professional service providers. Funding expires at the end of each financial year so it is important to use it before you lose it!
Services available for funding use include:
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The LGIS health and wellbeing program is designed to assist members in creating a healthier workplace, improving awareness of health issues, lowering risk factors, and improving workers’ safety performance.
LGIS provide the initial ground work for you in sourcing quotes for services from our panel providers. There is a shared health inbox ([email protected]) where you can request services.
Your local government may also be able to use local providers with your allocated funding (i.e. smaller, regional members may prefer to use the local GP for flu vaccinations instead of getting an external provider in).
How to access your funds and services
It’s important to note that LGIS covers the cost of any travel for providers so the funding allocations are only used for the actual delivery of the service.
Members can send through any questions or request an update on their remaining funding allocation via the health inbox –
[email protected]
Each month we take your questions to one of our LGIS team members to answer.
If you want to submit a question for next issue, email us at [email protected]
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LGIS is the unifying name for the dedicated suite of risk financing and management services for WA local governments, established by the WA Local Government Association in conjunction with JLT Public Sector (part of the Marsh group of companies). LGIS is managed by JLT Public Sector (ABN 69 009 098 864 AFS Licence 226827).
Risk Matters, via this website, is designed to keep members, their staff and elected members informed on topical risk management and insurance issues and LGIS programs and services.
