Occupational Medicine Physician

We are seeking a highly skilled Occupational Medicine Physician to join our team at the Defense Health Agency. As an Occupational Medicine Physician, you will play a critical role in ensuring the health and safety of our workforce by developing and implementing policies to support medical examination programs, providing technical consultations, and coordinating activities to anticipate, identify, investigate, inspect, assess, communicate, mitigate, and control occupational disease and injury threats.

• Develop and implement policies to support medical examination programs, including pre-employment/in-processing evaluations, baseline health screening evaluations, periodic non-occupational and occupational medical surveillance, pre-travel examinations, and administrative examinations.
• Provide technical consultations and develop policies to support programs essential for an effective DHA, OHP, including Hearing Conservation, Occupational Vision, Respiratory Protection, Infection Control, TB Control, Blood-borne Pathogens, Work-related Immunizations, Reproductive Hazards, and Surety programs.
• Coordinate activities to anticipate, identify, investigate, inspect, assess, communicate, mitigate, and control occupational disease and injury threats.
• Provide workers assistance with medical care and claims for Workers Compensation cases under the Federal Employee Compensation Act.
• Support DHA OH personnel performing services for Office of Workers' Compensation Programs (OWCP) claims as required.
• Serve as consultant to commanders and staff of DHA installations and supported activities, advising on medical, occupational health, and industrial hygiene matters.
• Work with the Civilian Counseling Center and Army Substance Abuse Program (ASAP) Office in the discussion or treatment of physical or mental health problems which are related to an employee's substance abuse or to other emotional problems found during counseling sessions conducted by those entities.
• Prepare reports as required and communicate findings or necessary information to supervisors and clinical chain of authority as required.
• Serve on or support DHA, MTF, and installation committees, to include infection control, civilian resource compensation, safety, impaired provider, etc.
• Reviews and provides input to documents for these committees and other actions of the DHA.
• Provides technical assistance, advice, and support to surety medical support sites in the DHA.
• Advises on medical programs and policies required to support activities performing chemical weapons demilitarization, biologic agent defense research, and nuclear reactor operations.
• Organizes support to OH within DHA, identifying and scheduling appropriate resources utilizing DHA assets including human resources with special training to meet such needs as Biological Chemical, or Nuclear Surety expertise.
• Serve on a special response team for Chemical, Biological, Radiological, Nuclear, or high-yield Explosive (CBRNE) incident/accident and consequence management, as required.
• Conducts job site visits as required to observe the workplace physical layout and operations, to detect potential workplace hazards (biological, chemical, ergonomic, physical, and psychosocial), and to monitor for compliance with safety procedures and personal protective equipment usage.
• Utilize knowledge of toxicology to determine extent of actual risk posed to the worker based on industrial hygiene (IH) sampling data and ergonomic evaluations of job design.
• Develops, implements, and evaluates hazard abatement interventions selected from administrative, engineering, and personal protective equipment options to protect the worker and the community.
• Reviews the health hazard inventory of each operation and determines specific medical monitoring examination requirements for pre-placement and periodic job-related examinations.
• Maintains liaison with employees, supervisors, and safety personnel. Notify managers and Civilian Personnel Advisory Center (CPAC) representatives regarding changes in the program.
• Maintains records of work site visits and communicates findings to the site supervisor, IH, safety, and other OH personnel. Promote communication of findings to affected employees.
• Develops educational material, coordinates, and supports delivery of OH training programs to promote awareness of health hazards, comply with DoD and other federal laws, regulations, and mandates (TB, Hazard Communication, and Blood Borne Pathogen standards), and prevent disease and maintain health.
• Plans and implements formal educational programs at the work site to meet workers' needs and promote wellness (stress management, crisis intervention, work place anger and violence, employee assistance programs).
• Provide training to management, labor unions, health care providers, Soldiers, and Civilians at supported installations.
• Gives in-services to OH professionals and other medical professionals in DHA to promote cross-training and remain current on rapidly changing OH programs.
• Provides medical counsel to DHA in environmental issues such as water quality testing for serviced activities drinking and recreational water; air pollution; monitoring climatic conditions to assist in the prevention of climatic injuries; epidemiological investigations of food- and waterborne disease outbreaks; field sanitation; sanitary inspections of on-post food service facilities, child development centers, barber and beauty shops, sports facilities, swimming pools, and recreation areas; assisting with radiation protection activities; administering the pest management program including routine medically important pest surveillance, West Nile Virus surveillance, rabies reduction, etc.
• Develop and prepare reports, communicate findings or necessary information to supervisors and DHA or subordinate unit's clinical chain of authority.

To qualify for this position, you must meet the education and experience requirements described below.

• Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).
• You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.
• Your resume must clearly describe your relevant experience; if qualifying based on education, your transcripts will be required as part of your application.

Additional information about transcripts is in this document.

You must have a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree from a school in the United States or Canada approved by a recognized accrediting body in the year of the applicant's graduation.

A Doctor of Medicine or equivalent degree from a foreign medical school that provided education and medical knowledge substantially equivalent to accredited schools in the United States may be demonstrated by permanent certification by the Educational Commission for Foreign Medical Graduates (ECFMG) (or a fifth pathway certificate for Americans who completed premedical education in the United States and graduate education in a foreign country).

Subsequent to obtaining a Doctor of Medicine or Doctor of Osteopathy degree, a candidate must have had at least 1 year of supervised experience providing direct service in a clinical setting, i.e., a 1-year internship or the first year of a residency program in an institution accredited for such training.

Candidates must have a permanent, full, and unrestricted license to practice medicine in a State, District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico, or a territory of the United States.

Experience refers to paid and unpaid experience, including volunteer work done through National Service programs (e.g., Peace Corps, AmeriCorps) and other organizations (e.g., professional; philanthropic; religious; spiritual; community; student; social).

You will receive credit for all qualifying experience, including volunteer experience.

To qualify based on your experience, your resume must describe at least 4 years of residency training in the specialty of the position to be filled or equivalent experience and training in the specialty of Occupational Medicine.

This required Occupational Medicine experience/training will include skills such as, but not limited to, monitoring work environments for potential hazards, overseeing compliance of an occupational health program, reviewing policies to support medical examination or occupational medicine.