Occupational Health Technician

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Occupational Health Technician, you will schedule and perform key occupational health, employee health, and pre-employment screening tasks, supporting various functions and maintaining regulatory compliance. You will help ensure employees and candidates meet occupational health requirements, workplace safety standards, and onboarding requirements.

Every day you will conduct pre-employment health screenings and processing, drug testing, respirator fit testing, powered air-purifying respirator (PAPR) training, and color blindness screening. You will also perform administrative functions like electronic health record (EHR) documentation, medical record management, report generation, and managing phone volume and walk-in traffic. You may also travel between healthcare facilities to provide on-site occupational health services, employee health support, and clinic coverage, including remote support as needed.

To be successful in this role, you will possess strong administrative and technical skills in occupational health services, employee health administration, and clinical office support, meticulous attention to detail in regulatory tasks, and excellent customer service abilities.

• Completes and documents all non-licensed tasks for new hires and associates, including pre-employment health screening procedures, drug screen collection and chain-of-custody documentation, respirator fit testing and PAPR training, and color blindness testing.

• Answers phones and distributes all incoming and outgoing mail and email to meet department expectations, providing administrative support for occupational health operations.

• Schedules appointments for associates and candidates and maintains clinic calendars in the electronic health record (EHR) system, ensuring accurate scheduling and documentation.

• Travels to and from various facilities and locations to perform work on-site, carry out duties, attend meetings, cover for employees on leave or PTO, and provide and/or receive training, supporting consistent employee health and occupational health services across locations.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Diploma/G.E.D.
• 4 years or greater of advanced secretarial, or 1 year or greater of Business Support/clinical office management experience or medical assisting/nurse’s aide experience in a clinic setting
• Ability to speak, read and write the English language
• Must have advanced word-processing skills, excel, spreadsheets, graphs, power point or similar software, etc
• Demonstrates proficiency with standard office equipment and software programs
• Basic Life Support through the American Heart Association

Preferred

• Two years of business college or other comparable secretarial training

Where You’ll Work

With more than 700 care sites across the U.S. from clinics and hospitals to home-based care and virtual care services CommonSpirit is accessible to nearly one out of every four U.S. residents. Our world needs compassion like never before. Our communities need caring and our families need protection. With our combined resources CommonSpirit is committed to building healthy communities advocating for those who are poor and vulnerable and innovating how and where healing can happen both inside our hospitals and out in the community.