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Helping you regain your STRENGTH
and get back to WORK
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who are we?
Workfocus was formed in Auckland in the middle of a global pandemic in 2020 and we provide vocational rehabilitation services to private organisations, individuals and insurers throughout New Zealand. These services are designed to prevent workplace injuries, assist in safe return-to-work outcomes and identify or treat early pain/discomfort within the workplace.
We can tailor these services to suit all types of workplaces - from the office, to a remote mine site - and have a variety of experienced Vocational Therapists to provide high quality rehabilitation.
vocational rehabilitation
Our Vocational Rehabilitation Service (VRS) aims to:
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Facilitate client recovery within the workplace
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Identify and provide rehabilitation strategies that ensure the worker can safely perform their duties.
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Provide work specific rehabilitation that address functional barriers.
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Work with all stakeholders involved to ensure a collaborative approach to return-to-work.
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Workfocus have a number of Occupational Health Physiotherapists throughout the greater North Island and are able to assist with private or ACC injuries. Contact us for further information.
our services
Workplace Assessment
A worksite assessment is an important component of our vocational rehabilitation and may be utilised for any injury whether it be acute or those that occur via a gradual process. This includes a description of the workplace, job tasks and corresponding functional requirements for those tasks. Based on the assessment, recommendations can be made to assist with managing injuries during the return-to-work process whilst maintaining productivity. Our experienced clinicians will develop a graduated return-to-work program and follow this through until completion.
Early Intervention
Our tried and tested Early Intervention program is designed to assess for a work-related pain or discomfort by providing an immediate action plan to reduce severity and speed up the recovery process.
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We want to help you and your company avoid unnecessary ACC claims and associated worker absenteeism. The program provides recommendations on acute pain management, education and training regarding workplace ergonomics or manual task techniques and recommendations regarding workplace modifications.
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Workfocus provides experienced musculoskeletal physiotherapists who all have extensive knowledge working in Occupational Health and onsite with local businesses.
Ergonomic Assessment
Our Ergonomic Assessments involves an evaluation of the worker at their workstation to ensure optimal working postures, ergonomic work practices, correct workstation set up and ergonomic equipment recommendations where appropriate.
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Poor ergonomic work practices or workstations play a significant role in the development of many preventable musculoskeletal disorders including neck, back, shoulder and arm pain, headaches, and repetitive strain injuries. By providing employees with information on good ergonomic practices it can reduce costs associated with lost work time.
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Manual Handling or Wellness Training
Manual handling is essential to many working roles and can include lifting, pushing/pulling, carrying, packing or repetitive bending, kneeling, squatting etc.
​Our Manual Handling or Wellness Training provides groups or individual training that aids in awareness to reduce risks, improve performance, and reduce absenteeism due to injuries in the workplace. It plays an important role to ensure employees carry out safe manual handling practices.
Having a core understanding of policies, procedures, proper lifting techniques and are necessary to avoiding incidents. Our manual handling or wellness trainings are geared specifically to your organisation or business.
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Workfocus has developed a research-based train-the-trainer education package tailored to medium-large businesses. Health and Safety champions from various working groups are taken through how to effectively communicate manual handling protocol to their peers and educated on how to measure and monitor progress.
Functional Capacity Evaluation
Workfocus has a team of experienced Musculoskeletal Physiotherapists able to perform a Functional Capacity Evaluation to determine a worker’s functional ability, strengths, skills, and current physical capabilities. This assessment will help an employer establish what job tasks the worker can safely perform during the return-to-work process.
