Occupational Health Technician

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.

Job Summary and Responsibilities

As our Occupational Health Technician, you will schedule and perform key occupational health regulatory and on-boarding tasks, supporting various functions and maintaining regulatory compliance.

Every day you will conduct pre-employment processing, drug testing, respirator fit testing, and color blindness screening. You will also perform administrative functions like EHR documentation, record management, report generation, and managing phone volume and walk-in traffic, sometimes involving travel or remote support.

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

• Completes and documents all non-licensed tasks for new hires and associates: drug screen (collection and use of chain of custody), fit testing/PAPR training, and color blindness testing.
• Answers phones and distributes all incoming and outgoing mail and email to meet department expectations.
• Schedules appointments for associates and candidates and maintains clinic calendar(s) on the EHR.
• Travels to and from various facilities and locations to perform work on-site, to carry out duties, to attend meetings, to cover for employees on leave or PTO, and to provide and/or receive training.

Job Requirements

Required

• High School Diploma/G.E.D.
• Four (4) years or greater of advanced secretarial, or one (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 (2) years of business college or other comparable secretarial training