Allied health providers include Chiropractors, Clinical Psychologists, Counselling Psychologists, Exercise Physiologists, Occupational Therapists, Osteopaths, Physiotherapists, Speech Pathologists, and Workplace Rehabilitation Providers.

These groups are recognised by WorkCover WA and contribute towards the agency’s common goal of ensuring that an injured worker can return to, or remain at, work following an injury.

Other professions

If the profession you are working in is not listed above and you would like your discipline to be recognised as an approved treatment within the Western Australian workers’ compensation system, an application must be submitted to the WorkCover WA Board with a statement addressing the following criteria:

• demonstration that a governing body or an association exists with licensing ability
• regulatory powers and an accepted code of ethics, plus dispute resolution and complaints handling procedures
• demonstration that as a minimum, the proposed treatment providers professional qualification at degree level of at least three years undergraduate study; and
• explanation of where the proposed treatment providers would fit within the workers’ compensation system, and importantly, what unique skills and services they add which are not already covered by existing treatments.

It is a legislative requirement that applications for approval as a treatment provider be approved by the Hon Minister for Commerce on recommendation of WorkCover WA.