Benefit Advisor Jobs

Interior Health is hiring a Term Specific Full-time Benefit Advisor to join the team!
The end date of this term position is approximately December 2024.
What We Offer

• Extended Health & Dental coverage
• Work-life balance
• Excellent career prospects
• Employer paid insurance premiums
• Employer paid vacation
• Municipal Pension Plan
• An attractive remuneration package
• Medical Service Plan
• Employer paid training/education

How Will You Create An Impact
The Benefit Advisor is responsible for determining benefit plan eligibility and entitlements for employees in assigned client groups. The Benefit Advisor administers the various benefit plans, programs, and accruals in accordance with benefit plan provider guidelines, Collective Agreements, and the Terms and Conditions (T&C) of Employment for Executive and Non Contract Staff. The Benefit Advisor assists individual health facilities and community care facilities with benefit plan information and advice as requested.
What Will You Work On

• Provides expert advice to the Employee Relations and Labour Relations Specialists regarding benefit related grievances.
• Provides various Short and Long Term Disability (LTD) Plan information and documentation to employees in consultation with Disability Management Specialists. Processes all documentation related to LTD claims including completing earnings calculations for entitlements and liaises directly with insurance carriers.
• Provides benefit plan information and support to individual healthcare facilities and community care facilities in assigned client groups. Processes Collective Agreement and Employment Standards changes to benefit entitlements.
• Determines employees’ eligibility for enrollment in the Municipal Pension Plan and Public Service Pension Plan and processes related documentation. Determines purchase of service eligibility for Municipal Pension and Public Service Pension Plans along with employee and/or employer shared entitlements. Provides Payroll with notification when Pension ceases and/or LTD claims start/stop. Liaises directly with the Pension Corporation on pension issues.
• Interprets the various different past and present Collective Agreements and Terms and Conditions of employment and advises Managers regarding the approval or denial of applications for leaves such as maternity/parental and unpaid leaves. Monitors and maintains leaves in accordance with the various different past and present Collective agreements and the Terms and Conditions of Employment. Provides the employees with the various benefit entitlements including cost to continue coverage during leaves, layoffs, etc. and arranges supplemental benefit payment agreements and pre-authorized payment plans.
• Adjusts vacation dates, plans and increment entitlement dates and seniority entitlement dates for leaves over entitlement in accordance with the various past and present Collective Agreements and Terms and Conditions of Employment.
• Interprets hiring, change position, change in status and/or termination documents to determine health and welfare benefit eligibility and various benefit bank entitlements, vacation date entitlement, severance date entitlement, increment bank and/or increment date entitlement and portability entitlements in accordance with the various different past and present Collective Agreements and Terms and Conditions of Employment.
• Audits non-insured benefit accruals for applicable adjustments. Audits insured benefits for changes in entitlement.
• Completes third party requests for information as related to benefits.
• Counsels employees on the retirement process. Determines severance and sick payout entitlements on retiring/resigning/deceased employees in accordance with the various different past and present Collective Agreements and Terms and Conditions of Employment.
• Represents the employer in administering LTD claims, WCB wage loss, WCB Section 16 and various different types of return to work agreements to determine appropriate continuance of benefit banks and health and welfare entitlements.
• Processes life insurance and accidental death and dismemberment claims with beneficiaries/estates and insurers in accordance with the various collective agreements and terms and conditions of employment. Processes advanced life insurance claims and optional life insurance where applicable.
• Determines employees’ entitlements for health and welfare benefit plans and processes applicable applications along with counseling employees regarding benefits (i.e. dual coverage) in accordance with the various different Collective Agreements and Terms and Conditions of Employment.

Interior Health strives to create an environment where you enjoy the work you do, the place where you work, and the people around you. Together, we create great workplaces. Apply today!
Honouring Interior Health’s commitment to Truth and Reconciliation and the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Act (DRIPA), and Pursuant to Section 42 of the BC Human Rights Code, preferential consideration and/or hiring will be given to qualified applicants who self-identify as Aboriginal (First Nations, Métis, or Inuit).