Job opening: Occupational Health Nurse
Salary: $86 962 - 113 047 per year
Published at: Dec 02 2024
Employment Type: Full-time
Our Occupational Health Nurses (OHNs) work diligently within their FBI office of assignment. Your work will ensure the medical readiness of the workforce through administering Fitness for Duty (FFD) evaluations, medical mandates (work restrictions), travel medicine and immunization programs. You will also respond to routine, work-related illnesses, injuries, and medical emergencies and provide employee health promotion activities and education.
Duties
Serves as an OHN, in the FBI office of assignment, in collaboration with MORU physicians and other health care professionals at FBI HQ.
Ensures the medical readiness of the workforce through the administration of the FFD, Medical Mandates, Travel Medicine and Immunization Programs.
Develops strategic health program goals and objectives for the occupational health program within the office at the direction of MORU, with input from field office management.
Responsible for preparing a variety of communications to MORU, division personnel, and division management, including but not limited to medical case reports, statistical medical readiness reports, medical financial expenditures, and field office policy statements adapted from MORU protocols and FBI policies.
Responsible for assessing routine, work-related illness or injuries, and responds to medical emergencies on FBI property. Provides limited treatment and/or treatment referral in accordance with applicable FBI policies, procedures and protocols.
Monitors and records medical exam activities, medication par levels, and medical supply monthly expenditures for reporting to MORU. This position requires the skill set and ability to perform OHN functions in an autonomous environment, administratively and clinically, managing the health services office and MORU programs.
Provides health promotion activities within the scope of FBI directives and accepted standards of occupational nursing practice. Activities cover areas such as health and wellness, travel medicine, nutrition, as well as disease specific topics.
Responsible for FFD exam reviews and management of work restrictions for employees with fitness for duty requirements and review of OSHA required medical screenings for identified positions. Reviews and analyzes medical reports, diagnostic tests and laboratory findings under the direction of MORU protocols and, medical officer advisement.?
Monitors and reports contract medical facility performance concerns. Monitoring FFD financial expenditures, reporting monthly spending to assigned MORU representative, and ensures timely processing of invoices in accordance with policy
Qualifications
GS-12: Applicant must have one (1) year of specialized experience (SE) equivalent to the GS 11 level. Specialized experience is:
Experience in one of the following, but not limited to: Critical Care, Emergency Medicine, Medical-Surgical, Hospital-Based Care, or Occupational Health/Case Management.
Desired Skills
Desired Skills are NOT mandatory and will NOT be utilized to minimally qualify applicants.
Desired Skills are:
Experience with preventive medicine programs and services.
Have at least 5 years of nursing experience.
Education
Positive Education Requirement
This position has a specific education requirement; all applicants must verify completion of this basic educational requirement by submitting a copy of their college transcripts by the closing date of the vacancy announcement.
Basic Education:
Applicants MUST have a degree or diploma from a professional nursing program approved by the legally designated State accrediting agency at the time the program was completed by the applicant. Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements provided you can show foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
Applicants must have passed the National Council Licensure Examination (NCLEX) and possess an active, current, unrestricted license as a registered nurse in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.)
Education completed in foreign colleges or universities may be used to meet the above requirements provided you can show foreign education is comparable to that received in an accredited educational institution in the United States.
Contacts
- Address Federal Bureau of Investigation
935 Pennsylvania Ave, NW
Washington, DC 20535
US
- Name: G. Jackson
- Email: [email protected]
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