Job Description

Registered Nurse (RN) – Employee Health Nurse

Job Type: Full-Time | Days

Schedule: 8 hour shifts | 7:45am-5pm

Your Experience Matters at Canyon Vista Medical Center

Canyon Vista Medical Center is part of Lifepoint Health, a diversified healthcare delivery network with facilities coast to coast. We are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. At Canyon Vista Medical Center, we are driven by a profound commitment to prioritize your well-being so you can provide exceptional care to others. Here, you’re not just valued as an employee, but as a person. As a registered nurse (RN) joining our team, you’re embracing a vital mission dedicated to making communities healthier. Join us on this meaningful journey where your skills, compassion, and dedication will make a remarkable difference in the lives of those we serve.

More about our team

As an Employee Health Nurse at Canyon Vista Medical Center, you'll play a vital role in supporting the health, safety, and well-being of the caregivers who make exceptional patient care possible every day. As an Employee Health Nurse, you will help foster a healthy workforce through employee wellness initiatives, occupational health programs, regulatory compliance, and injury prevention efforts. Your work directly contributes to creating a safe environment where caregivers can thrive and continue providing outstanding care to our patients and community.

How You’ll Contribute

The Registered Nurse (RN) – Employee Health Nurse coordinates occupational and employee health services that support the health, safety, and readiness of Canyon Vista Medical Center's workforce. The position is responsible for employee health onboarding and clearance, immunization and tuberculosis surveillance, respiratory protection requirements, occupational exposure management, work-related illness and injury follow-up, communicable disease evaluation, confidential employee health records, and employee education.

The Employee Health Nurse collaborates with Human Resources, Infection Prevention, Quality and Patient Safety, Safety, department leaders, providers, and other organizational stakeholders to reduce occupational risk, maintain regulatory compliance, support workforce readiness, and promote a safe and healthy work environment.

The position supports continuous readiness for applicable regulatory and accreditation requirements and practices within the Arizona Nurse Practice Act, organizational policies and procedures, applicable occupational health requirements, and demonstrated competency.

The Employee Health Nurse oversees employee health, on-boarding requirements and maintains current employee health files. Monitors annual PPD's, vaccines, and respirator fittings. Tracks work related illnesses, injury and blood borne pathogen exposures. Other duties as requested.

Essential Functions

• Develops and implements departmental goals, plans, and standards consistent with the clinical,
• administrative, legal, and ethical requirements/objectives of the organization.
• Directs and evaluates departmental operations, including patient care delivery, information technologies, service level determination, and complaint management, to achieve performance and quality control objectives.
• Integrates evidence-based practices into operations and clinical protocols.

Why join us:

We believe that investing in our employees is the first step to providing excellent patient care. In addition to your base compensation, this position also offers:

• Comprehensive Benefits: Multiple levels of medical, dental and vision coverage — with medical plans starting at just $10 per pay period — tailored benefit options for part-time and PRN employees, and more.
• Financial Protection & PTO: Life, accident, critical illness, hospital indemnity insurance, short- and long-term disability, paid family leave and paid time off.
• Financial & Career Growth: Higher education and certification tuition assistance, loan assistance and 401(k) retirement package and company match.
• Employee Well-being: Mental, physical, and financial wellness programs (free gym memberships, virtual care appointments, mental health services and discount programs).
• Professional Development: Ongoing learning and career advancement opportunities.

What we’re looking for:

Applicants should have a current Arizona or compact state RN license and possess an associate’s degree from an accredited nursing school. Additional requirements include:

• Associate’s Degree in Nursing required, Bachelor's or Master's Degree preferred.
• Must have an active Arizona or Compact RN License.
• BCLS preferred.
• Occupational Health, infection prevention, emergency nursing, quality, or related experience preferred.
• Minimum of one year of registered nursing experience preferred; acute-care, occupational health, employee health, infection prevention, emergency nursing, quality, or related experience preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to perform clinical assessment within RN scope, maintain confidential records, communicate effectively with employees and leaders, and manage multiple concurrent follow-up requirements.

More About Canyon Vista Medical Center

People are our passion and purpose. Come work where you are appreciated for who you are not just what you can do. Canyon Vista Medical Center is located in Sierra Vista, Arizona and is a 106 bed Joint Commission Accredited offering a number of specialty services. We are proud to serve our community with a Level III Trauma unit, Center of Excellence for Total Joint Replacement, Level I Nursery, American College of Radiology Accredited Facility, as well as many other state of the art services to ensure our patients are cared for.

EEOC Statement:

Canyon Vista Medical Center is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Canyon Vista Medical Center is committed to Equal Employment Opportunity for all applicants and employees and complies with all applicable laws prohibiting discrimination and harassment in employment.

Lifepoint Health is a leader in community-based care and driven by a mission of Making Communities Healthier. Our diversified healthcare delivery network spans 29 states and includes 63 community hospital campuses, 32 rehabilitation and behavioral health hospitals, and more than 170 additional sites of care across the healthcare continuum, such as acute rehabilitation units, outpatient centers and post-acute care facilities. We believe that success is achieved through talented people. We want to create places where employees want to work, with opportunities to pursue meaningful and satisfying careers that truly make a difference in communities across the country.