Health & Safety Officers

At Par Health, we believe great healthcare is built on getting the essentials right. With a global workforce, we lead with pride and purpose-prioritizing quality and safety while fostering a culture of continuous improvement, accountability, and teamwork. The Occupational Health Nurse is an integral member of the site EHS Team whose primary responsibility is to manage the site Occupational Health duties and associated programs. In addition the position will provide subject matter expertise and advanced leadership for successful development, implementation and maintenance of a high performing Occupational Health system for the assigned sites. The Occupational Health Nurse is responsible for Occupational Health and Medical monitoring program; Occupation Health nursing is the specialty practice that provides for and delivers health and medical services to employees and distinct service groups within the company (EHS Professionals, HR Professionals, Managers, general public, etc...). This position will make independent nursing judgments for the purpose of effectively managing workplace injuries, maintaining medical records, providing appropriate medical emergency response leadership, interfacing with Workers Compensation administrators and partnering with EHS functions (corporate and site) to promote reduction of EHS risk for employees.

Assist and maintain the medical monitoring program for assigned location.

Manage, coordinate and direct the care provided by assigned medical provider staff (nurses, paramedics, EMT, etc…) Serve as leader and/or subject matter expert with assigned EHS resources for development, improvement and/or update of EHS policy and programs.

This position also may serve on the leadership team for the emergency response system and provides leadership for medical response capabilities at other assigned Mallinckrodt locations.

Assist and develop/implement procedures to improve medical response capability at each location.

Maintains the medical facility and ensures security of medical records in accordance with HIPPA regulations.

Serve in an advance leadership capacity for the Emergency Response teams for assigned locations while assuming the lead role for medical related response and team activity issues.

Maintain Spirometry, Audiometric for the entire medical staff of assigned locations.

Maintains injury treatment and diagnosis information, assists EHS with OSHA log record keeping and monthly reports.

Operation of contract medical assistance at all assigned locations. This includes physician scheduling, interaction, nursing support and overall communications.

Has familiarity with the accident and health hazards that are common to this facility and the type of safety equipment being utilized.

Plans and works within acceptable/approved budget maintaining appropriate equipment and adequate supplies.

Disseminates health education information and advises employee and management on application of basic and advanced occupational health practices.

Maintains medical records; ensures confidentiality according to enterprise policy and procedures.

Serves as active member of site ergonomics team and active participant of potent compound team.

Other duties as assigned with or without accommodation.

Course completion Practical Nursing or related field required. (Minimum of 8 to 12 years’ experience in Occupational Health, Emergency Care or Ambulatory Care facility.

Familiar with DOT drug testing requirements, ADA and Blood Borne Pathogens. Trained in First Aid, CPR and AED, Current training in administration of spirometry testing, Current CAHOC Certification in Hearing Conservation required, Ability to perform patient assessment,

Knowledge of professional Medical administration philosophies and strategies; technical writing; computer literate; a desire to develop others through coaching and facilitation.

Basic computer skills. Position reports to Senior Occupational Health (or designee) with a dotted line report to the Plant EHS Manager. Also serves as the medical response function leadership for the site Emergency Response Teams. As a part of the site EHS team, this position will periodically be assigned to Occupational Health and/or other corporate EHS functional group initiatives and/or teams as well as directed to assist other Mallinckrodt locations with Occupational Health and/or EHS issues and projects (remote or travel to location).

Works with no onsite direct supervision and most decisions are made without direct input from up line managers. Decisions are based upon the incumbent’s experience, judgment and understanding of regulatory requirements, management systems and enterprise strategies and objectives.

Financial responsibilities include following assigned operating budgets, completing and/or approving expenditure reports and providing the input on necessary capital expenditures to maintain operations of Occupational Health and/or EHS systems and to maintain or improve assigned site(s) compliance.

The Occupational Health Nurse will perform the above-mentioned duties from an office location at the assigned site(s) with substantial and regular time spent in clinic, manufacturing, warehouse, laboratory and maintenance shop environments.

Position may require occasional moderate to strenuous physical work necessary for emergency response, patient handling and equipment management duties.

Some overtime required and may be required to come in early or stay late beyond normal working hours.

This position is eligible for a bonus in accordance with the terms of the applicable program. Bonuses are awarded at the Company’s discretion.

We comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment, and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, veteran status, or genetic information, or any other classification protected by federal, state or local law. This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation and training.

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