L&I Occupational Nurse Consultant

Description

Our Mission: Keep Washington Safe and Working!
Our Values: Customer Focus, One L&I, Respect, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, Learning and Growth, Reliability

Job Highlights

The Department of Labor & Industries (L&I) is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety, health, and security of Washington's workers. We help employers meet safety and health standards and inspect workplaces when alerted to hazards. As administrators of the state's workers' compensation system, we are similar to a large insurance company, providing medical and limited wage-replacement coverage to workers who suffer job-related injuries and illness.

Our rules and enforcement programs also help ensure workers are paid what they are owed, that children's and teens' work hours are limited, and that consumers are protected from unsound business practices.

Insurance Services is the largest division within the agency and administers one of the premier workers’ compensation organizations in the nation serving over 3.8 million employees working for 260,000 employers.

Within the Insurance Services division, the Office of the Medical Director is looking for an Occupational Nurse Consultant (ONC) who can provide recommendations to claim adjudication staff in order to promote and maintain proper and necessary health care for injured workers. As an ONC, you will assess the ongoing health care and nursing needs of an injured worker to coordinate a plan of care.

Note: This description reflects the duties and requirements of the position as posted. Details may change according to agency needs.

Some of what you’ll do:

• Review claim files to compile an accurate record of the medical interventions and the worker’s response to those interventions.
• Consult with members of other professional disciplines to improve the standard of care for workers.
• Communicates recommendations verbally and in writing to claim staff and medical providers on proper and necessary treatment for the allowed industrial injury or occupational disease.
• Authorizes home health care, skilled nursing facility admission, infusion therapy, residential care, hospice care, and nurse delegation services.
• Review occupational disease claims to determine if work activities that could have contributed to the development of an occupational disease.
• Review claims, and use resources such as RCW, WAC, department policies, medical treatment guidelines, and coverage decisions, to determine if requested treatment is proper and necessary for an allowed condition resulting from an industrial injury or occupational disease.
• And much more!

Required:

• Valid Registered Nurse license in the state of Washington.

AND

• Five (5) years of acute care clinical nursing experience or experience with worker's compensation insurance.

AND

• Bachelor of Science in Nursing and/or advanced nursing degree, or equivalent.

A Master’s degree in a health care discipline will substitute for one year of required nursing experience.

AND

• Proficient written and verbal communication skills.
• Must be able to work independently with limited direct supervision.
• Must have the ability to take action to learn and grow.
• Must have the ability to take action to meet the needs of others.

Desired:

• Master's degree in nursing
• Two years of nursing consultative, administrative, or supervisory experience over health care professionals.
• Proficient using computer programs such as Microsoft Office Suite.

Things You Need To Know

To help you maintain a proper work-life balance, teleworking is one of the work schedule options for this position. L&I also offers flexible custom work schedules.

State employees who meet the qualifications will become eligible for a generous retirement package at the end of the employee’s career. Click on the “Benefits” tab to learn more.

At L&I, your voice matters. In addition, L&I is a diverse state agency dedicated to the safety and health and security of Washington's 3.8 million workers. Take a look at this brief video and learn more about why L&I is an employer of choice.

Telework is dependent upon business needs and supervisor approval. For positions where in-office work is necessary,…