The Medical Associates team is seeking an energetic
LPN or RN to join us as an
Employee Health Nurse. In this role, you’ll partner closely with Tri-State Occupational Health and Human Resources to support the health, safety, and well-being of our employees across all locations.
Location and Hours:- Primarily based at Tri-State Occupational Health, with travel to Medical Associates locations
- Monday–Friday, 4–4.5 days/week
- Flex up to 5 days/week during peak periods as needed
- Hybrid flexibility: up to 1 work-from-home day per pay period
What You Will Be Doing: As an Employee Health Nurse, you’ll apply your clinical expertise across employee health, safety, infection control, and workers’ compensation. This role offers the opportunity to both support and lead key initiatives.
Key responsibilities include:
- Coordinate care and determine safe return-to-work plans for employees with work-related injuries, illnesses, or exposures
- Administer and manage employee immunization programs and occupational health screenings (OSHA/CDC/NIOSH compliance)
- Support and lead safety and infection control initiatives, including training, inspections, and policy development
- Oversee Hazard Communication (HazCom) program, including SDS database maintenance and compliance
- Participate in and help lead Safety and Infection Control Committees (meeting coordination, reporting, policy updates)
- Conduct ergonomic assessments, incident investigations, and follow-up tracking
- Monitor trends in workplace injuries/illnesses and support continuous improvement efforts
- Stay current on evolving occupational health regulations and help implement new programs and policies
Essential Functions & Responsibilities: - Actively manage the delivery of care and return to work for work-related injured or ill employees. Monitor injury trends and treatments to ensure optimum care for work comp employees. Maintain summaries and written reports required for employee illness/injury reporting. Communicate with employees, work comp insurer, case managers, and attorneys to share information as appropriate under workers’ compensation regulations.
- Assist with implementing proactive and comprehensive companywide safety and infection control initiatives to ensure OSHA and other regulatory compliance. Such initiative include but are not limited to: researching and implementing various safety programs, development and leading training programs, coordinating/conducting ergonomic evaluations and accompanying documentation, conducting department safety and infection control inspections, managing Medical Associates safety data sheets (SDS) software and ensure the system is kept current, evaluating and appropriately acting on employee incident reports, ensuring employee/physician infection control and safety needs are met upon employment and periodically in accordance to OSHA surveillance programs and ensuring OSHA recordkeeping compliance
- Participate and act as the meeting leader for the safety committee. Primary duties will include setting meeting agendas, developing meeting minutes, managing committee initiatives, developing and maintaining policies, conducting annual clinical department infection control inspections and other duties as assigned by committee chair.
- Plan and implement preventative health and safety measures for employees including vaccination programs, ergonomic assessments, and incident report follow up and tracking within the scope of licensure. Participate in other employee wellness initiatives as needed.
- Maintain current knowledge of OSHA, Iowa OSHA as well as other applicable state and federal standards and requirements.
- Complete all other assigned projects and duties.
Skills we are looking for: - Active RN or LPN license (Iowa or multistate)
- 2+ years of nursing experience preferred (will train the right candidate)
- Interest in occupational/employee health (experience preferred but not required)
Key strengths:- Self-starter with strong initiative
- Organized with excellent follow-through
- Problem-solver with critical thinking skills
- Strong communicator and presenter
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively
Knowledge & Skills: Education: Registered Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse degree. Iowa RN/LPN license or multistate license.
Preferred: Certified Occupational Health Nurse or Nurse Case Manager.
Experience: Experience and skills that will help you succeed in this role: solid and varied nursing background, previous employee health and/or case management experience a plus but not required, Microsoft Office Suite skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint, Outlook.). Policy development, training and presentation skills, active committee membership.
Interpersonal Skills: A significant level of trust and diplomacy is required, in addition to normal courtesy and tact. Work involves extensive personal contact with others inside and/or outside the organization, and/is usually of a personal or sensitive nature. Work may involve motivating or influencing others. Outside contacts become important (vendor reps, labs, offices, hospital, etc.) and fostering sound relationships with other entities (companies and/or individuals) becomes necessary.
Other Skills: Ability to travel to multiple locations. Ability to multi-task, work in a fast-paced environment. Good computer skills as well as strong written and verbal communication skills.
