RN - Employee Health

Core Job Responsibilities

• Determines real and potential health problems and hazards within the work environment that influence the health and safety of workers.
• Collaborates with management and other members of the occupational health team to formulate appropriate responses to identified problems.
• Utilizes outside resources when they are not available within the organization.
• Promotes professional rapport with employees.
• Affixes with monitoring of incident reports involving employees.
• Provides health counseling to employees.
• Might need to schedule pre-employment physical examinations and routine annual health screening for employees, students and “special program workers”
• Maintains precise records of each employee’s health history, results of annual screening, lost work time due to illness or injury, physician permission for employees to return to work, etc.
• Provides nursing care to employees (blood pressure testing, Mantoux tests, assessment of employees becoming ill or injured at work, referral of employees to physician or health department, etc.)
• Contacts employees absent from work due to health reasons, to ascertain nature and expected duration of condition.
• Notifies appropriate departments of extended health related absenteeism in order for disability and FMLA benefits to be requested.
• Notifies appropriate department of employee’s return to work.
• Serves on Infection Prevention Committee and others as needed.
• Performs occupational exposure test counseling as needed for employees.
• Affixes with the Respiratory Protection Program and “Fit Testing” of employees.
• Performs related duties as assigned.

Education/Experience Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited Registered Nurse Program.
• Minimum three years’ experience in nursing (hospital, industrial, physician office, etc.).

Licensure/Certification Requirements

• Current licensure as a Registered Nurse in New York State.