Work Capacity Certificate

(10 Feb 2025) Information on what the work capacity certificate is, how it is to be used and who can complete it. Information on the Nurse Practitioner Capacity Certificate. Links to the electronic work capacity certificate and the health benefits of work.

Resources

(18 Aug 2022) Regional travel for return to work service providers may be approved when the appropriate place to deliver a service is located in one of the approved regional postcodes.

Payment and invoicing

(23 Jul 2025) We pay medical, allied health and return work service providers electronically. Please ensure all invoices are completed in accordance with our invoice standards.

Explain pain

(19 Oct 2022) Pain can be complex and can be present, absent, increased or decreased depending upon a variety of factors in addition to what might be going on in the tissues of the body.

Return to work services

(7 Jul 2020) A case manager may refer a worker to a return to work service provider for specialist support to help them return to their pre-injury employer or secure new employment.

Performance Monitoring

(30 Aug 2022) Return to Work Service Providers are important in supporting recovery and return to work. Performance monitoring is utilised by ReturnToWorkSA to support durable, desirable and affordable scheme outcomes where return to work services are required.

Submitting an invoice

(14 Aug 2025) Quick guide to submitting an invoice to ReturnToWorkSA for medical providers.

Pain management tools

(13 Oct 2023) There are multiple tools available to assist health practitioners manage patients with a chronic or persistent pain problem.

Whole Person Impairment Assessors list

Work Injury Guide for Medical Practitioners

(13 Dec 2024) A Work Injury Guide for Medical Practitioners has been developed in collaboration with the Australian Medical Association South Australia (AMA(SA)) and the Royal Australian College of General Practitioners (RACGP) to assist medical practitioners to