Occupational Health Coordinator/RN

About Business Health Solutions 

Business Health Solutions’ services are tailored to meet the needs and objectives of our specific host organizations. Our occupational health and safety professionals are available to staff, operate, and manage clinics located within organizations to maximize return on investment. We use an initial assessment phase to create a strategic plan to guide our work and client relationships.

Company Fit    

Excellence:  We believe that as BHS team members, we achieve excellence when we consistently perform with these three (3) approaches in mind. 

• Maintain deliberate and conscious presence so we can respond rather than react.
• Address conflict early and often with grace and compassion, so we stay connected as a team while serving our clients.
• Communicate with openness, honesty, and transparency so that all communication is both effective and efficient.

Integrity: To achieve exceptional outcomes, we must always operate with the following: 

• Respect 
• Compassion
• Discretion

Service:  Service is only truly service if it is 

• Proactive
• Clinically astute
• Based on current best practices

Humility:  As leaders, we must consistently: 

• Own the outcome
• Defer to our clients (unless it goes against our oath as nurses)
• Ensure that the achievement of successful outcomes always takes precedence over ego

Job Purpose:  The Occupational Health Coordinator is a registered nurse (RN) who is responsible for assisting the Occupational Health Manager in overseeing the occupational health clinic, staff, and programs for the host organization by providing clinical services, health assessments, and case management dedicated to helping patients everywhere enjoy better and longer lives.  

Primary Responsibilities:

Clinical Care

• Providing nursing assessment and interventions within the scope of practice of the registered nurse (RN). 
• Evaluate employees with work-related injuries and illnesses and/or personal medical conditions for their fitness for duty.
• Provide first aid/initial treatment and triage for site employees and contractors who experience work-related injuries
• Responsible for providing return-to-work clearance for employees
• Perform required screens
• Manage credentialing program
• Providing pre-employment and annual physicals
• Provide educational offerings to employees
• Collaborate with the client’s staff
• Lead and or participate in special projects assigned by the client leadership

Medical Surveillance

Conduct, as appropriate, and/or manage all required surveillance examinations

• Provide medical surveillance support (testing and tracking) for client employees
• Provide Health Assessment services.  This includes completing required physical assessments of employees and performing other selected tests as needed at the site.
• Provide Health Assessment employee review.  Determinations of the employee’s fitness for work are communicated to management.

Medical Emergency Response

• Provide first-line injury and illness care for work-related conditions.
• Provide emergency medical response as required.
• Interface with local hospitals and emergency medical providers to enable quality and continuity of care following possible injury, illness, or exposure.

Workers Compensation Case Management Responsibilities

• Provide personal and work-related injury case management as defined by the client’s policies and guidelines.
• Provide medical advice/input to site leadership on work-relatedness of injuries/illnesses.  Organize independent medical examinations as appropriate and in coordination with the client

Health Promotion Program Role

• Promote and support client wellness programs. 

Medical Record

• Provide adequate clinical documentation of services provided to host organization employees. This includes electronic medical records as well as traditional paper records maintained in a manner consistent with local law and medical practice.

Administrative

• Faxing/scanning/copying
• Answer phone
• Clinic scheduling 
• Medical waste management
• Clinic stocking/purchasing/expensing
• Export/import test results

Qualifications

• Current license to practice as a registered nurse (RN) in the state of Tennessee
• BLS Certification required
• Bachelor’s degree in nursing or equivalent desirable
• Certification in Occupational Health Nursing is desirable
• Ability to organize, plan, work independently, and manage multiple responsibilities
• Ability to use and learn technology like Microsoft programs and other tools
• Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills
• 3-5 years of nursing experience
• 2-5 years of occupational health nursing preferred

Schedule:  40 hours a week.  Primary hours are dayshift, Monday - Friday with rotating call with Occupational Health Manager.