What are the responsibilities and job description for the Occupational Health Specialist position at Pivot OnSite Innovations?
Position Overview
Athletico's mission is to empower individuals, inspire hope, and transform lives by providing exceptional fitness, performance, and rehabilitative services. We emphasize education and prevention of future injury through our core values: one team, understanding our business, recognition, people-focused, accountability, continuous innovation, and trust and integrity.
Job Summary
The Nurse Practitioner oversees the day-to-day operations of the onsite healthcare clinic under the direction of the Medical Director and Overseeing Physician. Responsibilities include patient care, case management, physicals, and minor procedures.
- Key Responsibilities:
- Perform post-offer physicals and non-work-related/return-to-work medical clearance examinations
- Provide urgent and episodic care to employees
- Respond to in-plant medical emergencies and evaluate employees with acute episodic illness, referring when appropriate
- Assess, diagnose, treat, and provide ongoing medical management of workplace injuries and non-occupational conditions (episodic and urgent), including writing prescriptions and facilitating referrals in collaboration with the physician
- Drive chronic disease management process, including education and wellness physicals
- Maintenance of charts and employee incident records
- Perform minor procedures including, but not limited to, suturing, splinting, joint injection, trigger finger injection, arthrocentesis, and x-ray interpretation
- Case management of workmans compensation claims in conjunction with the employer representative and insurance carrier
- Facilitate return-to-work and light-duty assignments for employees with work-related injuries
- Maintain current case log for workplace injuries outlining treatment plan for weekly case review
- Assure compliance with OSHA and DOT programs such as hearing conservation, blood-borne pathogen training, random drug screening, and follow-up programs
- Maintain health care unit inventory of medications and supplies
- On-call as needed
- Other duties as assigned
