Occupational Health Nurse (RN) - Passavant McCandless

Occupational Health Nurse

UPMC's Health Plan is hiring an Occupational Health Nurse for its Employee Health Assistance Team. This role is Monday through Friday 7 am - 3:30 pm and will work onsite at UPMC Passavant McCandless. This position offers free parking.

This position has primary responsibilities for the direct patient intervention and provision of care for the staff members of the UPMC Health System. This person will be responsible for the provision of all clinical services for the Employee Health/MyHealth@Work program. This includes pre-placement evaluations, medical surveillance programs, work injuries associated with bloodborne pathogens, infectious disease exposures, and other employee health related interventions.

Responsibilities:

• Assist in the coordination of medical surveillance programs.
• Assists with efforts and interventions to ensure regulatory compliance.
• Assist in the provision of MyHealth@Work services.
• Supports quality improvement, cost containment, and customer service oriented initiatives.
• Orchestrates complete and appropriate interventions, treatment and follow up care for staff infectious disease exposures and/or Bloodborne pathogen exposures.
• Acts as resource for client employee.
• Coordinates employee health efforts with various departments.
• Shares questions and concerns with the Nurse Manager or Senior Manager.
• Ensures compliance with appropriate testing policies and procedures.
• Maintains confidentiality of all medical information.
• Supports a proactive, multidisciplinary team approach.
• Provides education to client employee enrolled in the various lifestyle and condition management programs.
• Coordinates pre-placement evaluations on new hires.
• Performs phlebotomy, substance abuse testing, and immunizations.
• Evaluates laboratory results and initiates appropriate interventions.
• Upholds policies and programs of UPMC.
• Collaborates with Physician or other Advanced Practice Providers.
• Input data and tests into the employee health software database program.
• Coordinates services rendered to appropriate departments for OSHA reporting.
• Provides education and counseling to staff throughout the evaluation and treatment process.
• Establishes supportive relationship with client employee.

Qualifications:

• 1 year nursing experience highly preferred.
• The individual must be able to demonstrate the knowledge and skills necessary to provide care to the ages of the patients served.
• Current licensure as a Registered Professional Nurse.
• CPR required based on AHA standards.
• Basic Life Support (BLS) OR Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation (CPR).
• Registered Nurse (RN).

*Current licensure either in the state where the facility is located or, if the facility is in a state covered by the multistate Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC) agreement, a multistate license issued by a participating NLC state. Hires and current employees working on an out-of-state NLC license who later change their residency to the state where the facility is also located will have 60 days upon changing their residency to apply for licensure within that state. UPMC is an Equal Opportunity Employer/Disability/Veteran.