Associate Chief of Occupational Medicine
Apply NowCompany: Yale University
Location: New Haven, CT 06511
Description:
Essential Duties
1. Manage the Occupational Health Department, including staff supervision, hiring, clinical operations, budgeting, and interfacing with internal and external stakeholders as needed. 2. Lead such initiatives as needed to support operational and strategic goals of Occupational Health, including early identification, mitigation, and control of hazards; reduction of occupational injuries, illnesses, and workers' compensation costs; improvement of employee well-being and resilience; improvement of employee knowledge of workplace hazards and prevention strategies; implementation of data collection and analysis to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and targets for improvement; adherence to all applicable occupational health and safety laws and standards.3. Function as the primary business owner of employee-related functionality in Health On Track, Yale's enterprise system for tracking health requirements for employees and students. Partner actively with the Health On Track technical team and campus stakeholders on strategies and workflows to improve efficiency and employee experience interacting with Health on Track.4. Provide direct clinical support for occupational health as needed to support operations.5. Provide clinical expertise supporting university readiness for outbreaks and surges of vaccine-preventable illness. Ensure capacity to identify unvaccinated/exempted individuals in the event of an epidemic, administer prophylactic medications, provide pop-up vaccine access, and assist with strategies for contact tracking when needed.6. Lead clinical operations for the annual Yale Flu and COVID Vaccine Programs and other mass vaccination programs that may be indicated in response to campus outbreaks. Responsible for all aspects of vaccine clinic operations, including safe and efficient vaccine administration, identifying venues, scheduling systems, hiring, training, and managing temporary clinical and non-clinical staff.7. Develop and update clinical policies, procedures, and SOPs related to Occupational Health and Campus Health as needed, including campus infectious disease outbreaks and response.8. Other responsibilities as may be determined.
Required Education and Experience
Master's Degree from an accredited Advanced Nurse Practitioner program or graduation from a Physician Assistant (PA) Training Program accredited by the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education and a minimum of five years of experience.
Background Check Requirements
All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.
Position Focus:
Yale Health, within Yale University provides healthcare services to its faculty, staff and students, serving more than 49,000 members of the Yale community and their families. With more than 150 board-certified healthcare providers, most care and services are provided in our state-of-the-art, facility.
Yale's Occupational Health (formerly Employee Health) department provides comprehensive preventive, medical surveillance, and treatment services for occupational injuries and illnesses for university employees and students. Occupational health is part of the Office of Campus Health, which promotes employee and student wellbeing and leads campus-level efforts around public health communications, prevention, readiness and response.
Reporting to the Associate Chief Campus and Occupational Health Officer, this role will manage Occupational Health Department operations and lead strategic initiatives to support the goals of optimal occupational health and well-being of Yale employees and students. The Director will have primary responsibility for employee content and experience for Health On Track, the enterprise system that tracks health requirements for Yale University employees and students.
The Director will also have primary responsibility for seasonal mass vaccination operations for Yale students, staff and faculty; and support university readiness for infectious disease outbreak response or exposure, including administration of vaccines to large, targeted populations.
This role oversees staff, including temporary employees, student employees and others as needed. It will require a high degree of initiative, flexibility, collaboration, and comfort with complex data and systems.
Additional responsibilities include:
Required Licenses or Certifications
ARPN license (or eligible) with ANA certification OR CT PA license (or eligible) with graduation from a PA program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the PA (ARC-PA) or (NCCPA) National Commission on Certification of PA.
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:
Master's degree in Public Health or related field. Demonstrated experience in: planning and implementing vaccination campaigns; treatment of occupational injuries and illnesses and facilitation of early return to work processes; managing occupational health programs; and management of compliance with regulatory statutes.
Posting Disclaimer
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the particular position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring departments.
EEO Statement:
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual's sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.
Inquiries concerning Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA).
Required Skill/Ability 1:
Demonstrated leadership ability and management experience. Five years of management and/or leadership experience. Demonstrated experience and expertise in data management and information systems.
Required Skill/Ability 2:
Comprehensive knowledge of standards of care, including regulatory and safety standards on state and federal level. Strong ability to lead, train and motivate staff to work effectively with a wide range of patients, university partners and healthcare professionals.
Required Skill/Ability 3:
Well-developed organizational, managerial and communication skills, advanced conflict resolution skills, team building, and the ability to work in a high stress environment.
Required Skill/Ability 4:
Ability to interpret data, and expertise with technical software programs. Ability to lead complex, multidisciplinary teams and serve as a change agent.
Health Care Worker
This role is a healthcare worker position. Healthcare workers (HCW) are defined as university employees working a healthcare setting who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients, human research subjects or infectious materials including body substance, contaminated medical supplies, devices and equipment, surfaces, or air. HCW have specific health requirements that must be met prior to starting work, including MMR vaccine or immunity, varicella (chickenpox) vaccine or immunity, TB screening, COVID vaccine according to University policy, hepatitis B vaccine or immunity, and annual flu vaccination.
1. Manage the Occupational Health Department, including staff supervision, hiring, clinical operations, budgeting, and interfacing with internal and external stakeholders as needed. 2. Lead such initiatives as needed to support operational and strategic goals of Occupational Health, including early identification, mitigation, and control of hazards; reduction of occupational injuries, illnesses, and workers' compensation costs; improvement of employee well-being and resilience; improvement of employee knowledge of workplace hazards and prevention strategies; implementation of data collection and analysis to identify and evaluate the effectiveness of programs and targets for improvement; adherence to all applicable occupational health and safety laws and standards.3. Function as the primary business owner of employee-related functionality in Health On Track, Yale's enterprise system for tracking health requirements for employees and students. Partner actively with the Health On Track technical team and campus stakeholders on strategies and workflows to improve efficiency and employee experience interacting with Health on Track.4. Provide direct clinical support for occupational health as needed to support operations.5. Provide clinical expertise supporting university readiness for outbreaks and surges of vaccine-preventable illness. Ensure capacity to identify unvaccinated/exempted individuals in the event of an epidemic, administer prophylactic medications, provide pop-up vaccine access, and assist with strategies for contact tracking when needed.6. Lead clinical operations for the annual Yale Flu and COVID Vaccine Programs and other mass vaccination programs that may be indicated in response to campus outbreaks. Responsible for all aspects of vaccine clinic operations, including safe and efficient vaccine administration, identifying venues, scheduling systems, hiring, training, and managing temporary clinical and non-clinical staff.7. Develop and update clinical policies, procedures, and SOPs related to Occupational Health and Campus Health as needed, including campus infectious disease outbreaks and response.8. Other responsibilities as may be determined.
Required Education and Experience
Master's Degree from an accredited Advanced Nurse Practitioner program or graduation from a Physician Assistant (PA) Training Program accredited by the American Medical Association Council on Medical Education and a minimum of five years of experience.
Background Check Requirements
All candidates for employment will be subject to pre-employment background screening for this position, which may include motor vehicle, DOT certification, drug testing and credit checks based on the position description and job requirements. All offers are contingent upon the successful completion of the background check. For additional information on the background check requirements and process visit "Learn about background checks" under the Applicant Support Resources section of Careers on the It's Your Yale website.
Position Focus:
Yale Health, within Yale University provides healthcare services to its faculty, staff and students, serving more than 49,000 members of the Yale community and their families. With more than 150 board-certified healthcare providers, most care and services are provided in our state-of-the-art, facility.
Yale's Occupational Health (formerly Employee Health) department provides comprehensive preventive, medical surveillance, and treatment services for occupational injuries and illnesses for university employees and students. Occupational health is part of the Office of Campus Health, which promotes employee and student wellbeing and leads campus-level efforts around public health communications, prevention, readiness and response.
Reporting to the Associate Chief Campus and Occupational Health Officer, this role will manage Occupational Health Department operations and lead strategic initiatives to support the goals of optimal occupational health and well-being of Yale employees and students. The Director will have primary responsibility for employee content and experience for Health On Track, the enterprise system that tracks health requirements for Yale University employees and students.
The Director will also have primary responsibility for seasonal mass vaccination operations for Yale students, staff and faculty; and support university readiness for infectious disease outbreak response or exposure, including administration of vaccines to large, targeted populations.
This role oversees staff, including temporary employees, student employees and others as needed. It will require a high degree of initiative, flexibility, collaboration, and comfort with complex data and systems.
Additional responsibilities include:
- Manage the Occupational Health Department including staff supervision, hiring, clinical operations and budgeting, interfacing with internal and external stakeholders as needed.
- Lead initiatives as needed to support operational and strategic goals of Occupational Health including early identification, mitigation, and control of hazards; reduction of occupational injuries, illnesses, and workers' compensation costs; improvement of employee well-being and resilience; improvement of employee knowledge of workplace hazards and prevention strategies; implementation of data collection and analysis to identify evaluate the effectiveness of programs and identify targets for improvement; and adherence to all applicable occupational health and safety laws and standards.
- Function as primary business owner of employee-related functionality in Health On Track, Yale's enterprise system for tracking health requirements for employees and students.
- Partner actively with the Health On Track technical team and campus stakeholders on strategies and workflows to improve efficiency and employee experience interacting with Health On Track.
- Provide direct clinical support for occupational health as needed to support operations. Direct patient care -50% efforts.
- Provide clinical expertise in support of university readiness for outbreaks and surges of vaccine-preventable illness.
- Ensure capacity to identify unvaccinated/exempted individuals in the event of outbreak, administer prophylactic medications, provide pop up vaccine access, and assist with strategies for contact tracing when needed.
- Lead clinical operations for the annual Yale Flu and COVID Vaccine Program and other mass vaccination programs that may be indicated in response to campus outbreaks.
- Responsible for all aspects of vaccine clinic operations including safe and efficient vaccine administration, identifying venues, scheduling systems, hiring, training and managing temporary clinical and non-clinical staff.
- Develop and update clinical policies, procedures and SOPs related to Occupational Health and Campus Health as needed, including campus infectious disease outbreaks and response.
- Other responsibilities as may be determined.
Required Licenses or Certifications
ARPN license (or eligible) with ANA certification OR CT PA license (or eligible) with graduation from a PA program accredited by the Accreditation Review Commission on Education for the PA (ARC-PA) or (NCCPA) National Commission on Certification of PA.
Preferred Education, Experience and Skills:
Master's degree in Public Health or related field. Demonstrated experience in: planning and implementing vaccination campaigns; treatment of occupational injuries and illnesses and facilitation of early return to work processes; managing occupational health programs; and management of compliance with regulatory statutes.
Posting Disclaimer
The intent of this job description is to provide a representative summary of the essential functions that will be required of the position and should not be construed as a declaration of specific duties and responsibilities of the particular position. Employees will be assigned specific job-related duties through their hiring departments.
EEO Statement:
The University is committed to basing judgments concerning the admission, education, and employment of individuals upon their qualifications and abilities and seeks to attract to its faculty, staff, and student body qualified persons from a broad range of backgrounds and perspectives. In accordance with this policy and as delineated by federal and Connecticut law, Yale does not discriminate in admissions, educational programs, or employment against any individual on account of that individual's sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, race, color, national or ethnic origin, religion, age, disability, status as a special disabled veteran, veteran of the Vietnam era or other covered veteran.
Inquiries concerning Yale's Policy Against Discrimination and Harassment may be referred to the Office of Institutional Equity and Accessibility (OIEA).
Required Skill/Ability 1:
Demonstrated leadership ability and management experience. Five years of management and/or leadership experience. Demonstrated experience and expertise in data management and information systems.
Required Skill/Ability 2:
Comprehensive knowledge of standards of care, including regulatory and safety standards on state and federal level. Strong ability to lead, train and motivate staff to work effectively with a wide range of patients, university partners and healthcare professionals.
Required Skill/Ability 3:
Well-developed organizational, managerial and communication skills, advanced conflict resolution skills, team building, and the ability to work in a high stress environment.
Required Skill/Ability 4:
Ability to interpret data, and expertise with technical software programs. Ability to lead complex, multidisciplinary teams and serve as a change agent.
Health Care Worker
This role is a healthcare worker position. Healthcare workers (HCW) are defined as university employees working a healthcare setting who have the potential for direct or indirect exposure to patients, human research subjects or infectious materials including body substance, contaminated medical supplies, devices and equipment, surfaces, or air. HCW have specific health requirements that must be met prior to starting work, including MMR vaccine or immunity, varicella (chickenpox) vaccine or immunity, TB screening, COVID vaccine according to University policy, hepatitis B vaccine or immunity, and annual flu vaccination.