Occupational Health Physician at Cape Fox Shared Services in Fort Jackson, South Carolina

Job Description:

Join a Great Team with Strong Salary and Benefits.Eagle Health has a work environment that promotes diversity, embraces change, and provides leadership opportunities to every team member. We are on a fast track within the DoD, DoJ, USAID, and DHA community and are seeking skilled professionals to take us even further. So if you are looking to make a move and are a motivated professional who welcomes new challenges, take a look at Eagle Health... We have your nextGREAT OPPORTUNITY!

Hours of Operation: Typical hours of operation for Occupational Health is 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM Monday through Friday (Work eight hours per day with a one-hour lunch break)

Core Duties:

• Maintains the medical examination program, which includes pre-employment /in processing evaluations, baseline health examinations, periodic non-occupational and occupational medical surveillance, pre-travel examinations and administrative examinations, such as fitness-for-duty, return to work, short and long term disability and disability retirement examinations.


• Performs pre-placement evaluations from a standpoint of prevention of occupational injuries and illnesses including the detection of pre-existing conditions that might be aggravated by a particular assignment and to determine whether the individual is physically, mentally, and emotionally capable of performing a particular job or assignment with an acceptable degree of efficiency and without endangering their own health and safety or that of their fellow employees.


• Evaluates individuals with disabilities to determine if they can perform the essential job functions and makes recommendation for reasonable accommodations.


• Designs and conducts a comprehensive program of occupational medical surveillance examinations based on the real and potential health hazards encountered in the workplace.


• Performs evaluations on individuals who have been absent from the workplace for a specified period of time due to illness, injury, or other reasons; for temporary or permanent reassignment; and for a variety of other reasons to ensure they are physically and/or emotionally fit for duty.


• Performs evaluations and provides medical preparations for employees traveling to other parts of the world.


• Performs physical examinations/ evaluations; reviews laboratory tests and x-ray findings appropriate to the various occupational exposures encountered by employees; treating job-related injuries and illnesses of the employees, and prescribes further care and treatment or refers to local medical community as appropriate.


• Refers employees to their private health care provider for follow-up or further evaluation of non job-related medical problems encountered in the various physical examinations.


• Oversees the technical aspects of the Respiratory Protection Program, Hearing Conservation Program and Vision Conservation Program and local implementation of the MEDDAC Infection Control and Bloodborne Pathogen Programs.


• Provides for reproductive hazard and pregnancy surveillance.


• Assures appropriate immunizations are provided employees potentially exposed to infectious disease because of work environment or required foreign travel.


• Conducts studies and surveys of work sites in coordination with OH supervisory staff and Industrial Hygiene team.