What are the responsibilities and job description for the Occupational Health Medical Director position at St. Joseph's Health?
Responsibilities
PRINICIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
Basic requirements:
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
PRINICIPAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES
- This position will work with a multi-disciplinary team and provide clinical expertise focused on ensuring employee health, well-being, and safety in the workplace globally including physical and mental health, employee performance, injury prevention, and productivity.
- Develop and implement the strategies, global policies, programs, infrastructure, and systems needed to ensure the advancement of occupational employee well-being and corporate health care services, including mental health, fitness and nutrition, hygiene, occupational and work-related diseases, and other health care programs across the organization.
- Performs basic clinical skills required for direct patient care to evaluate, diagnose, consult, and provide basic treatment.
- Performs appropriate evaluation and management of patients to include ordering of diagnostic tests and consultations and discriminates between normal and abnormal findings and makes appropriate treatment decisions.
- Participates effectively in team meetings and treatment planning conferences and collaborates with multidisciplinary team members in a manner that enhances coordination of comprehensive patient care.
- Ensures documentation of care in the medical record is in keeping with the bylaws of the Medical Center.
- Provides clinical oversight of the clinical care to which assigned.
- Performs pre-employment physicals, evaluates workplace injuries and coordinates with workman's compensation, provides clinical support for APPs and RN’s.
- Assures that protocols are up to date for all key employee health programs including but not limited to: needle stick management and TB screening.
- Serves as a champion for Health system’s employee flu immunization and COVID 19 immunization initiatives.
- Supervises urine drug testing related to pre-employment assessment.
- Assists with any employee health issues related to construction, building of a solid employee wellness plan for effectively monitoring mandatory programs.
- Collaborates effectively with employer and employee in an effort to maintain the stay at work and return to work process.
- Ensures that medical treatment or care plans consist of current best medical practices and are evidence-based if possible.
- Evaluates Fit for Duty to ensure employee's current capabilities match or exceed the physical, psychological, cognitive, and social demands of the specific tasks.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Basic requirements:
- Degree of Doctor of Medicine, M.D. or D.O. degree
- Board certification in primary medical specialty
- Comprehensive knowledge of health promotion, disease prevention
St. Joseph’s Health is recognized for the expertise and compassion of its highly skilled and responsive staff. The combined efforts of the organization’s outstanding physicians, superb nurses, and dedicated clinical and professional staff have made us one of the most highly respected healthcare organizations in the state, the largest employer in Passaic County, and one of the nation’s “100 Best Places to Work in Health Care”.
