Star Rehab - Vocational Rehabilitation
Star-Rehab has been providing vocational rehabilitation, training, audit and early intervention services for around 15 years. Based in Adelaide we offer a full regional service covering South Australia and western Victoria. Our offices are located in:
- Adelaide (Mile End)
- Reynella
- Elizabeth
- Port Augusta
- Berri
- Mount Gambier
Now a division of Vedior Asia Pacific, a global recruitment company, we work closely with our network of professional recruitment consultants (through Select, Tanner Menzies and other related brands) to provide effective job search as well as pre-injury employment services.
Olive Blackman - Director and Principal Consultant |
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| Provider Number: 85778 Mobile: 0419 857 035 Email: olive@star-rehab.com |
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Olive has nearly 20 years of experience in vocational rehabilitation, both with self-insurers and with SA WorkCover and their Agents. She has previously worked in health, education, banking, insurance and as a university lecturer.
Olive has extensive experience working with complex claims and psychiatric injury and is also qualified in occupational health and safety. She has a good level of conversational Italian She is friendly and practical in her approach. |
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Olive is Work Cover accredited in SA for:
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Greg Franz - Rehabilitation consultant |
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| Provider Number: 85779 Mobile: 0411 890 650 Email: greg@star-rehab.com |
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Greg has worked with the Star-Rehab team for several years.
He has previous experience in the WorkCover RISE program, employer levies and determination of 58B/C issues. Greg has also worked as a human resources manager for a self insurer in the aged care sector. He is happy to accept claims for the Adelaide Metropolitan area (particularly Southern suburbs), and the Mount Gambier area. He is friendly, approachable and very knowledgeable about workers compensation legislation. He takes a practical common sense approach to vocational rehabilitation. |
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Keri Chiveralls - Rehabilitation consultant |
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| Provider Number: 85776 Mobile: 0401 611 629 Email: keri@star-rehab.com |
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Keri has been a part of Star Rehab since 1999. She completed a first class honours degree in Anthropology in 2002 and a graduate diploma in vocational rehabilitation in 2003 when she undertook her placement with us. Keri has almost finalised her Doctoral Studies in Social Anthropology with the Australian Institute for Social Research at Adelaide University with the City of Playford as her industry partner and sponsor. Together with the City of Playford, she has worked to develop and report on a number of industry related projects and has sat on a reference group examining economic development and public health in Adelaide's northern suburbs. She has special interests in migrant workers, women’s health issues and in working with northern suburbs industries. Keri has also had had her work published in the Australian Rehabilitation Counselling Journal (ASORC). Keri is also our specialist resume writer. She is friendly, approachable and very professional in her rehabilitation work. |
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Keri is Work Cover accredited in SA for:
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Merridee Arcus – Rehabilitation consultant |
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| Provider Number: 87221 Mobile: 0434 364 607 Email: marcus@capsecur.com.au |
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Merridee has been assisting people to recover from injury and successfully return to work since 2002.In the past she has worked as a registered nurse in the public and private sectors. Merridee has extensive rehabilitation experience as a rehabilitation co-ordinator within the self-insured environment. She has specialist expertise in manufacturing and health sectors. She is friendly and approachable with an excellent knowledge of workers compensation as well as rehabilitation |
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Merridee is Work Cover accredited in SA for:
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Tina Gibson – Quality Assurance Officer |
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| Mobile: 0433 941 545 Email: dferguson@capsecur.com.au |
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Tina worked with Star-Rehab for three years as a rehabilitation consultant after a successful career as an ambulance paramedic. In 2006 she finalised her degree in health promotion and in 2007 qualified in kinesiology and massage. Pursuing her own business on a part time basis, she also works with us as our quality assurance officer, providing us with unbiased feedback about our service delivery. |
Di Ferguson - Office Manager, Adelaide |
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| Phone: 08 8150 7009 Email: di@star-rehab.com |
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Di has been working with Star-Rehab since June 2004. She is our office manager, working out of the Mile End office. Prior to joining Star, Di worked in various administrative roles in education, medical and law firms. Di has an uncanny ability to remember practically everything about our clients and manages our office professionally and warmly. |
