What are the responsibilities and job description for the Occupational Health Nurse position at Aequor?
Job Title: Occupational Health Nurse – Onsite Part Time (12-20 hours/ week) during regular working hours
Location: West Greenwich, RI – 02817
Duration: 1-year contract with possible extension
Need certified Registered Nurse, with Occupational Health and Emergency Room exp.
Position description: The purpose of the occupational health nurse is to maintain the health, safety, and productivity of client’s staff by providing superior clinical services. The successful applicant will possess an active registered nurse license or an LVN license with phlebotomist certification and work in close collaboration with the client’s occupational health (OH) clinical lead located in West Greenwich, RI. Experience in occupational health, emergency room, or public health is highly preferred.
Job duties, under general direction:
- Perform LVN or RN level assessment and medical management of work-related injury/illness
- Facilitate return to work and workers’ compensation programs
- Assist with international travel health consultations
- Perform phlebotomy to support research requests, administer immunizations, and TB screening tests
- Assist with OH supply management
- Respond to site medical emergencies and support disaster preparedness activities
- Perform medical surveillance exams
- Ensure OH compliance with State, Federal, OSHA, and workers compensation compliance regulations as applicable
- Comply with ethical, legal, professional requirements, corporate policies and procedures
- Establish and maintain effective working relationships with client’s colleagues, patients, and OH partners
Position requirements
- Active Rhode Island registered nurse license in good standing or registered LVN with phlebotomy certification
- 3-5 years of clinical nursing experience. Occupational and Environmental Health experience, emergency room or public health strongly preferred
- COHN-S certification—strongly preferred
- Bachelor of Nursing degree—preferred
- Audiometry and Spirometry Certification preferred
- CPR/BLS Certification
Knowledge & skill requirements
- Excellent interpersonal, verbal, and written communication skills
- Ability to organize and rapidly prioritize responsibilities in response to clinical need and staff population
- Knowledge of OH and safety principles to establishing and maintaining a safe work environment
- Experience with CA workers compensation regulations and claim filing, case management, OSHA regulations, and maintaining OSHA records
- Strong phlebotomy skills required
- Ability to perform audiometry and spirometry testing for medical surveillance programs
- Computer literacy in Microsoft office, competency with using electronic medical records systems
