What are the responsibilities and job description for the Occupational Health Specialist position at Pivot OnSite Innovations?
Job Summary: Under the direction of the Medical Director and Overseeing Physician, you will manage the day-to-day operations of the onsite health care clinic, provide patient care including case management, physicals and clearance exams, injury assessment, and minor procedures.
Essential Duties and 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
