Occupational Medicine, System Medical Director - Occupational Medicine

Job Summary

Reading Hospitalis seeking aSystem Medical Director, Occupational Health and Employee Health Services. This provider will support the strategic vision and direction of Occupational Health and Employee Health Services for Tower Health. This physician will provide clinical leadership for system Occupational Health & Workers Compensation matters and provide subject matter expertise as well as clinical oversight of Occupational Claims for Workers Compensation.

This individual will also serve as the System Medical Director for enterprise Occupational Claims, including fiscal oversight.

Highlights:

• Collaborating with the dyad partner to support the strategic vision, direction of Occupational Health and Employee Health Services for the system.
• Collaborating with dyad to ensure systematic approach is used for the delivery of employee and occupational health care while ensuring compliance with local, state and federal regulations and regulatory requirements as well as equity access and treatment in all areas.
• Providing clinical leadership for system Occupational Health & Workers Compensation matters and provides subject matter expertise as well as clinical oversight of Occupational Claims for Workers Compensation. Serves as the System Medical Director for enterprise Occupational Claims, including fiscal oversight. Acts as medical subject matter expert in Workers Compensation matters. Works closely with Workers Compensation attorney and insurers and third-party administrator(s) to ensure that both that the institution and employees needs are met.
• In this highly matrixed role, the incumbent is responsible for partnering with the dyad partner System Director, Employee Health, Wellness & Integrated Disability, the Chair of Family Medicine, Human Resources, enterprise Safety Officer, Medical Director of Epidemiology, Infection Control & Prevention, Chief Medical Officer, and acts in a consultative manner for all entities within the system where expertise is required.

Essential Functions

• Holds responsibility for the quality of medical care delivered in the Tower Health Employee Health and Occupational Medicine practices.
• Delivers clinical care to employees, particularly in difficult or complex cases. Assumes a lead role in resolving patient-related issues that require medical expertise and/or management support.
• Together with the dyad partner, collaborates in the development and implementation of policy and practice that promote employee wellness, infectious disease avoidance & mitigation, and general employee safety, keeping the medical staff informed of changes.
• Supports the Epidemiology, Infection Control & Prevention (EICP) Department to control outbreaks and thus potential employee exposure to infection. Supports the development of the IPC Risk/Analysis/Intervention Plan and collaborates to review data on hospital acquired infections and to recommend and support control strategies. Assists in setting policy and interventions around Vaccination initiatives.
• Supervises advanced practice providers in Tower Health Employee Health and Occupational Medicine practices and is a partner for their recruitment and retention. Provides opportunities for growth and education for clinical staff. Participate in teaching staff.
• Identify new opportunities to improve the employee experience with Tower Health Employee Health and Occupational Medicine practices and thus improve the patient experience.
• Assures program compliance with regulatory agencies and hospital policy.
• Develops and maintains the necessary clinical policies and practices and disseminates these throughout the health system.
• Develops and supports Worker Safety program through clinical leadership.
• Develops, reviews, collaborates on periodic and ad hoc analyses regarding the quality of Occupational Health and Employee Health Services programs, the general occupational health of the workforce, incident tracking and trending, and exposure data. Ensures the proper distribution of such reports and interprets the results so that responsible parties may take corrective action where needed. (FOR EXAMPLE: Masking policies, Fit testing, needle stick…