Occupational Health Nurse - Registered Nurse

Job Location

IOWA CITY ORAL CARE SITE

Job Description

Do you have a passion for promoting, maintaining, and restoring the Occupational health and well-being of the employee to improve their optimal performance?

 

As an Occupational Health Nurse, your primary responsibility will be providing comprehensive health and wellness services to the employees of the plant in alignment with established Global Medical Priorities, Health System Key Elements and North America Medical Guidelines and site-specific objectives, goals, strategies, and measures.

 

You will play a key role in collaborating with other team members to deliver quality health and safety program needs for the plant. You will support site assessment audits, site risk analysis, and occupational health management plan to ensure the delivery of the health services. In addition, you will own delivering comprehensive nursing care including prompt medical emergency response, prevention, treatment and follow-up for occupational injuries/illnesses, referrals, and medications. 

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES INCLUDE:

·       Coordinate the care of ill and injured workers, including return to work assessment and fit for duty evaluation from medical leaves of absence, disability, worker’s compensation.

·       Engage with site and regional medical resources to support clinical activities which includes following medical triage protocols, conduct virtual screenings, follow confinement guidelines, and plan appropriate RTW per standard operating procedures.

·       Partner with Human Resources (HR) on Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA), American Disabilities Act (ADA) Interactive Process for site employees, and Incident Related Drug Testing.

·       Partner with site emergency response teams to deliver quality and timely basic and advanced life support.

·       Partner with HR and Health Safety and Environmental (HSE) and ensure occupational health aspects of local legal requirements. Ensure compliance with health aspects and medical testing requirements of TSCA, SARA, OSHA, NIOSH, P&G Medical and Industrial Health & Safety standards.

·       Conduct new hire post-offer health questionnaire review, physicals, and medical qualification.

·       Deliver comprehensive occupational health medical monitoring and medical qualification program for P&G employees. Develop, interpret, and administer medical testing programs such as Hearing Tests, and Respirator Physicals which include Pulmonary Function Tests, Phlebotomy as indicated and if needed.

·       Work with third party vendors to facilitate health services programs and resources based on business needs.

·       Attain/maintain current knowledge of the site risks/hazards including chemical, biological, and physical and participate in reviews and overall risk assessments.

·       Partake in site chemical clearance and change management process.

·       Provide Health Coaching that optimizes the employee's health and well-being.

·       Be an active member of site HR team and be part of the overall HR process as an occupational health expert. Build business acumen and collaborate with HR and other business partners.

·       Be an active member of site Wellbeing teams, and part of the sites Wellbeing culture to improve the health of employees. Champion wellness programs offered by the company and recommended by the site and play the role of a Health Coach.

·       Ensure optimal clinical operations as the leader of the site health center and deliver quality care for our employees.

·       Ensure data confidentiality, data privacy and data safety for occupational health records. Ensure compliance with companies’ electronic medical records system.

Job Qualifications

QUALIFICATIONS

If you are a good fit, you will have:

• Associate Nursing Degree or higher; B.S. Nursing Degree preferred.

• An unencumbered nursing license in the state of Iowa and ability to obta