OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL SAFETY MANAGER

St. Ann's, a Rochester Top Workplace for 2020, has served our aging population for almost 150 years! We are looking to add to our Employee Health department, and currently looking for an Occupational and Environmental Safety Manager.

JOB PURPOSE :

The primary purpose of your job is to identify and reduce the risks of acquiring and transmitting infections among elders, employees, contract service workers, volunteers, students and visitors.

This includes surveillance, prevention and control of infections covering a broad range of processes and activities, both direct resident care and resident care support that are coordinated and carried out by the organization.

Additionally, to plan, develop, implement, and evaluate activities relating to Employee Health and to provide high quality, cost effective occupational health services to all employees and volunteers;

to advocate for the promotion of a safe and healthy working environment within SAC while ensuring that all employees and prospective employees meet the physical and medical regulatory requirements for their jobs.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS :

Occupational Health and Safety :

• Perform new employee health assessments (include health history and immunization review, TB skin testing, and providing influenza vaccination as appropriate.)
• Perform annual health assessment TB skin testing for all employees and volunteers, provide Hepatitis B series, Pneumovax, and Influenza Vaccinations as appropriate.
• Assess Employees / Volunteers for fitness to return into work post medical disability
• Provide evaluation and first aid treatment of all occupational injuries, triaging out to Worker's comp Provider or Ed as needed.
• Working with employees, personal physicians, and third party Worker's Comp Provider to control financial and staffing impact of work related and no-work related illness and injuries.
• Provide evaluation / first aid of all ill employees during work hours for medical needs, triaging home or to ED as needed.
• Insure compliance with employee health regulations from DOH, OSHA, CARF and JCAHO.
• Maintain accurate and confidential employee health information in medical database.
• Promote wellness and healthy lifestyle choices through handouts, literature and participating in the Wellness Fair
• Assess and appropriately TB test employee, students and volunteers after performing facility risk assessment.
• Review health information for clearing New Vision Students yearly, and provide support to instructor as needed for educational health needs.
• Develop and manage annual health budget for Employee Health
• Responsible for submitting DOH Influenza vaccine report as requested by DOH throughout Flu season
• Assure strict adherence to all IC policies and procedures.
• Work with Human Resource on Disability and Workmen Compensation cases for tracking and reporting.
• Review all incoming medical residents' records for medical department for clearance.
• Maintain professional development activities and affiliations.

Infection Prevention :

Intent - designs an infection control process based on sound epidemiologic principles and nosocomial infection research.

Oversees the process to reduce the risks of endemic and epidemic nosocomial infections in residents and health care workers.

• Surveillance - collects data about infections to detect any changes in infection trends.
• Identification - uses surveillance data to identify and analyze problems or undesirable trends.
• Prevention - develops, implements, reviews and revises policies and procedures.
• Control of Infections - develops and implements policies and procedures and training programs to control the transmission of an infectious disease once it occurs and is identified.
• Reporting - develops and utilizes a method for external reporting of all reportable diseases or infections as required by law and regulation.
• Develops and maintains programmatic links with external organization support systems to reduce the risks of infection from the environment, including food and water sources.
• System-wide consultation on patient placement, isolation and universal precautions.
• System-wide consultation on patient care practices, supplies and equipment.
• Conducts Infection Control rounds to identify problems and assess compliance with Infection Control policies.
• Investigation, reporting and management of health care worker communicable disease.
• Provision of educational programs and materials relevant to infection prevention and control / .
• Consultation on environment / supply / equipment decontamination / disinfection or sterilization and management of infectious waste.
• Surveillance, data collection and reporting of communicable diseases to Monroe County Health Department.
• Research practices which may increase or decrease risk of nosocomial infection.
• Reports clusters of infections to the Physician in charge of Infection Control.
• Assists with implementation of the annual Influenza Vaccination program for residents.
• Coordinates Infection Control issues with interdepartmental and supervisory staff.
• Supervises Infection Control orientation for new employees; consults with Director of Education on annual mandatory education
• Defines and ensures adherence to transmission -based precautions.
• Performs other duties as assigned by the Director of Education, Director of Human Resources and / or Medical Director

REQUIREMENTS

Current NYS licensure as Nurse Practitioner or Physician Assistant. Minimum 2 years recent experience in occupational health, safety, and infection prevention.

Must have inflectional control experience or be willing to obtain Infection Certification in the first year of employment