Job Details
Summary
The Occupational Health Manager is a registered nurse (RN) who is responsible for setting policy, directing, administering, and evaluating occupational health, environmental, and safety services consistent with company and client organizational goals and objectives. In addition, they ensure the achievement of business outcomes and results as well as adherence to corporate policies and government regulations.
Who We Are
At Business Health Solutions, we are healthcare experts who understand business and create tailored strategies for each client. We provide occupational health and safety solutions to client needs across the US. Our professionals manage clinics within organizations to maximize return on investment.
Who You Are
Excellence: BHS team members believe we achieve excellence when we consistently respond rather than react, address conflict early and often with grace and compassion, and communicate effectively and efficiently.
Integrity: we always operate with Respect, Compassion, and Discretion
Service: true service is proactive, clinically astute, and based on current best practices
Humility: we consistently own the outcome, defer to our clients (unless it goes against our oath as nurses), and ensure successful outcomes takes precedence over ego
What You'll Do
- Oversee day-to-day operations of occupational health unit assigned to ensure quality while utilizing available resources efficiently.
- Develop, administer, and maintain the policies of the occupational health, environmental, and safety program consistent with the client s general policies concerning environmental, health, and safety services.
- Provide supervision of BHS staff, ensuring successful performance and development.
- Assist in planning, developing, and promoting the necessary resources to operate the occupational health service, including reviewing, setting, and monitoring budgets and financial performance.
- Assume duties when a staff member is out or a position is open.
- Conduct and document program evaluation which includes measurement of immediate and long-term outcomes, quality of interventions, and gap analysis.
- Collect and analyze data to establish health priorities and interventions.
- Initiate investigative interventions such as walkthroughs or job hazard analysis as needed.
- Ensure staff is appraised of technological and professional changes associated with occupational and environmental health and safety.
- Ensure compliance with federal, state, and local legislative guidelines.
Your Competencies
- Professionalism - Interacts comfortably with senior managers and client site management
- Managerial Courage - Communicates proactively and directly, providing current, direct, complete, actionable positive and corrective feedback
- Comfort in Ambiguity - Effectively copes with change; decides and acts without having the total picture; navigates risk and uncertainty
- Management through Systems - Designs practices, processes, and procedures that allow management of site; influences team members to come to solutions on their own; impacts people and results remotely
- Political Savvy - Maneuvers through complex inter-organizational situations effectively; understands the motivations and priorities of client leadership and plans his/her approach accordingly
Your Experience/Education
- Current license to practice as a registered nurse (RN) or nurse practitioner (NP) in Tennessee.
- 5 years of experience in occupational health nursing.
- Bachelor s degree in nursing or equivalent required; Master s degree preferred.
- Knowledge of related fields, e.g., safety, ergonomics, toxicology, epidemiology, etc.
- Knowledge of business/management principles.
- Previous leadership experience preferred.
- Ability to organize, plan, work independently, and manage multiple responsibilities.
- Excellent oral and written communication skills, including presentation skills.
- COHN or COHN-S with case management experience preferred.
- CAOHC certification a plus.