Registered Nurse, Occupational Health, Harrington, Per Diem

UMass Memorial Health; Webster (MA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 120,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Signing bonus eligibility

Job summary

UMass Memorial Health in Massachusetts is seeking an experienced Nurse in Employee Health to facilitate onboarding and preplacement assessments, and to coordinate care for employees. The role requires state licensure and a nursing degree, with preferred bachelor’s degree and EMR proficiency.

Excellent communication is essential. The position offers a day shift in a non-exempt role with potential signing bonus eligibility discussed during interviews.

Qualifications

• Current Massachusetts state licensure is required.
• Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
• Preferred: Bachelor's degree.

Responsibilities

• Facilitates entry of new hires and coordinates preplacement assessments.
• Assists new hires and employees in understanding required steps and resources.
• Provides education along the continuum of the process to new hires and employees.
• Develops concise status updates for stakeholders while protecting HIPAA rights.
• Develops relationships with key stakeholders across UMMH and affiliate entities.

Skills

EMR software

Excellent communication

Education

Massachusetts state licensure

Graduate from accredited school of nursing

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $0.00 - $0.00

Please note that the final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate's experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details: Monday, Thursday, Tuesday, Wednesday

Scheduled Hours: 7:30am-6pm

Shift: 1 - Day Shift, 10 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 0

Cost Center: 25080 - 4250 Employee Health Clinic

This position may have a signing bonus available a member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver - regardless of their title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence and leading-edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community and each other. And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Guides new employees, researchers, volunteers, residents, students and other Health Care Workers (HCW)s through the preplacement and annual screening process. Assists with access issues, information collection and management of data, and ensures consistent adherence to applied biosafety laboratory, infection control and EHS/OIC standards.

Provides medical surveillance for occupationally based exposures; coordinates and collaborates with other departments, Medical Director, and Source patients to develop and implement a plan of treatment that is appropriate for the employee patient.

Coordinates a comprehensive immunization program for employees, and provides employee orientation and education related to occupational illness and injury.

I. Major Responsibilities

• Facilitates the entry of new hires (as defined above) into the UMass Memorial Health (UMMH) and/or UMass Chan Medical School (UMCMS) and Research Labs and coordinates the retrieval of information and the delivery of the preplacement assessment process in accordance with defined job specific protocols.
• Assists new hires and current employees in understanding what is needed, options available to them, resources, and the results of all testing.
• Provides education along the continuum of the process to the new hires and to existing employees.
• Develops concise status updates to all stakeholders in a manner that protects the patient/employee's HIPAA rights.
• Develops relationships with all key stakeholders for both UMMH and UMCMS as well as affiliate entities.

II. Position Qualifications

License/Certification/Education:

Required:

• Current Massachusetts state licensure.
• Graduate from accredited school of nursing.

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree.

Experience/Skills:

Required:

• Minimum of two years' of up to date and progressively responsible nursing experience in Employee Health, Occupational Health, Infection Control or related field.
• Skilled with utilization of EMR and other software.
• Excellent oral and written communication skills.

Preferred:

• Excellent phlebotomy skills.
• Experience in caring for employees with blood borne pathogen exposures.

Unless certification, licensure or registration is required, an equivalent combination of education and experience which provides proficiency in the areas of responsibility listed in this description may be substituted for the above requirements.

All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

We're striving to make respect a part of everything we do at UMass Memorial Health - for our patients, our community and each other. Our six Standards of Respect are: Acknowledge, Listen, Communicate, Be Responsive, Be a Team Player and Be Kind. If you share these Standards of Respect, we hope you will join our team and help us make respect our standard for everyone, every day.

As an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer, UMass Memorial Health recognizes the power of a diverse community and encourages applications from individuals with varied experiences, perspectives and backgrounds. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, gender identity and expression, protected veteran status or other status protected by law.

If you are unable to submit an application because of incompatible assistive technology or a disability, please contact us at [e-mail]. We will make every effort to respond to your request for disability assistance as soon as possible.