Occupational Health Nurse - RN

Mountain Area Health Education Center - MAHEC • Asheville, NC

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

MAHEC’s Employee Occupational Health department is seeking a full-time RN to provide collaborative and team-based support for the following programs: Respiratory Protection, Infection Prevention, Workers’ Compensation, and Employee Health. This role is 75% administrative, 25% clinical, and supports communicable disease outbreaks.

Requirements

• Successful completion of an accredited Registered Nursing program.
• Two (2) years relevant experience or comparable combined experience and/or education.
• Current unencumbered North Carolina nursing license
• Current CPR certification
• Quality and Process Improvement: You drive for continuous improvement. You work with your team to identify ways to streamline and improve efficiency of work and service delivery. You ensure that defined processes, quality standards, and best practices are adopted swiftly and updated regularly.
• Team Engagement: You create a climate in which others want to do their best and feel personally invested. You engage in shared decision-making and invite input from team members. You convey trust in people’s competence to do their jobs and recognize great performance. You promote others to take initiative.
• Knowledge of epidemiology, infectious and communicable disease per CDC guidelines as it affects the employee and work environment.
• Ability to analyze, synthesize and summarize data to document clinical findings and make accurate judgments regarding employee health according to accepted evidence-based guidelines.
• Outstanding clinical assessment and evidenced based practice.
• Highly effective verbal communication and interpersonal skills to establish working relationships that foster optimal quality of care and relationships with community partners.
• Advanced computer skills as related to working with medical office software, educational program(s), and presentation preparation.
• Excellent decision making and problem solving.
• Ability to use independent nursing judgement and critical thinking skills.
• Strong time management, organizational, and follow-through skills
• Excellent skills in Microsoft Office including Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and database applications required.
• Above average typing speed.

Nice To Haves

• Spanish speaking skills preferred.
• Bachelor or Master of Science in Nursing strongly preferred
• CIC certification strongly preferred

Responsibilities

• Leads Respiratory Protection (N95 fit testing) and Hand Hygiene programs in collaboration with staff and leaders
• Assesses, manages, and reports work-related injuries and illnesses
• Communicates with employees and leaders on plan of care and return to work as it relates to communicable diseases and injury management
• Partners with workers’ compensation adjustors and medical treatment sites for work-related injuries.
• Adheres to OSHA requirements and data tracking.
• Coordinates health related services for employees.
• Develops, provides, and maintains educational material related to bodies of work, including occasional presentations.
• Performs nursing functions, such as immunizations and TB screenings for employees
• Is cross-trained and assists in new hire onboarding.
• Participates in assessing employee health requirements for new employees at time of onboarding.
• Reviews and provides recommendations for policy changes under scope of work
• Participates in monthly policy reviews and program development
• Ensures workforce/student preservation and safety as part of the MAHEC Employee Health call line and department inbox
• Maintains employee files, including immunization and fit testing records
• Performs audits of infection prevention (i.e. hand hygiene.)
• Participates in as needed and yearly annual assessments of clinical departments.
• Partners with employees and clinical departments to problem solve and provide expertise
• Adapts to address needs for possible pandemic surge capacity as necessary
• Responds to employee and facilities occupational health needs, including but not limited to pest infestations, employee injuries, and 911 calls.
• Provides cross coverage for other Occupational Health Nurse
• Supports department initiatives, including but not limited to collaborating with administrative departments and clinical leaders to develop, implement, and maintain programs

Benefits

• full benefits available
• Total Rewards (pay + benefits) to honor their service, support their health, manage their financial security, build their career, and thrive.
• Employees who meet federal requirements may be eligible to have remaining student loan balances forgiven after 10 years of qualifying payments while working full-time at MAHEC.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree