Occupational Health and Safety Nurse (Part-Time)

Research Compliance

Basic Function and Responsibility
The position works closely with and fosters strong working relationships with the research community including the principal investigators, laboratory workers, graduate students, animal care staff, researchers using rDNA, hazardous materials, as well as Environmental Health and Safety and facilities personnel. The goal is to create a risk assessment for individuals using animals or biohazards based on their self-described health.

Essential Functions
* Reviews Occupational Health and Safety Health Evaluation Forms and Confidential Health Questionnaires and creates a risk assessment for users of research animals and biohazards.
* Helps personnel working with research animals and/or biohazards keep their vaccinations up to date to minimize risk.
* Provides support for the various Occupational Health and Safety Program components including medical surveillance, database employee management, and occupational health program policy and procedure development.
* Responsible for clinical documentation on record keeping and communicative platforms.
* Provides patient communication, documentation of results, and overall surveillance for the hearing conservation program.
* Partners with Environmental Health and Safety to ensure root cause analysis, proper medical referral, and follow up with workers reporting workplace injury/exposure related to research.
* Collaborates with a multi-disciplinary team of professional and specialists to identify adverse health exposures in the work environment; design and implement appropriate intervention strategies to improve worker health and safety and establish regulatory-based medical surveillance programs.
* Collaborates with Environmental Health and Safety to identify associates that are potentially at risk for exposures and refer workers needing respiratory fit testing.
* Ensures Occupational Health mandated requirements are upheld
* Stays up to date with new and improved standards for surveillance and treatment.
* Other duties as assigned.

Supervision Received
Position will be supervised by the Director of Animal Care Quality Assurance

Supervision Exercised
None

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities
Have or acquire knowledge of federal, state and local requirements that govern occupational health care and employee health records in an academic institution or health care setting.
Ability to determine when a physician or supervisor needs to be alerted to situations, and which circumstances need medical advice before proceeding with action.
Excellent verbal and written communication skills in working with researchers, healthcare professionals, administrators, employees, environmental health and safety staff, and regulatory agencies.
Excellent computer skills with such programs as Microsoft Office, including the ability to write policies and procedures in Word, create and maintain spreadsheets with formulas in Excel, create presentations in PowerPoint, and use Outlook daily for email and time management.
Excellent customer service and interpersonal skills and the ability to develop and maintain collegial and cooperative relationships with members of the research and animal care staff, and Environmental Health and Safety.
Ability to represent the department in a highly professional manner.
Assist management and staff with maintaining Occupational Health clinic invoicing.
Strong organizational, time management and attention to detail skills.

20 to 25 hours a week.

Missouri Board of Nursing RN or Nurse Licensure Compact multi-state RN. When primary state of residency changes, compact state RNs must apply under new state of residency within thirty (30) days.

Preferred Qualifications
Recognition as a Certified Occupational Health Nurse (COHN) by the American Board of Occupational Health Nursing.
Experience in workplace/occupational health issues especially in research.
Experience in providing occupational health services in support of research protocols involving Center for Disease Control and National Institute of Health Animal Use Research guidelines.

Salary Range: $43.39 to $70.81 hourly

University Title: Temporary Professional

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Employment visa sponsorship is not available for this position.

This position is not eligible for University benefits. Individuals in non benefit eligible positions may choose to participate in the Tax Deferred Annuity Plan (403b). For information about this plan, please visit the Faculty & Staff Benefits website at https://www.umsystem.edu/departments-staff/human-resources/benefits-retirement/retirement/core-voluntary-plans

Equal Employment Opportunity

The University of Missouri is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

To request ADA accommodations, please call the Director of Accessibility and ADA at 573-884-7278.