**Location:**120 Main Street, Dartmouth, NS
**Employment Status:**Independent Contractor
**Schedule:**Monday - Friday
**Additional Info:**15 Hours per week

About the Role

Lifemark Health Group is seeking an experienced Occupational Health Nurse Practitioner (OHNP) to join our growing occupational health team. This advanced practice role delivers clinical care and occupational health medical services that support worker health, safety, and fitness for work across clinic, onsite, and mobile environments.

The OHNP functions in a role comparable to an occupational health physician for appropriately delegated or independently authorized activities within provincial legislation, NP scope of practice, organizational policies, client requirements, and approved clinical protocols. The role combines autonomous clinical assessment, diagnosis, treatment, prescribing, work ability evaluation, medical surveillance oversight, and interdisciplinary consultation.

Role Highlights

Advanced Clinical Scope

Autonomous NP practice including assessment, diagnosis, ordering and interpreting diagnostics, and clinical decision-making within jurisdictional authority.

Occupational Medicine Focus

Support pre-placement, periodic, post-offer, fit-for-duty, exposure-related, and return-to-work evaluations for diverse worker populations.

Employer-Facing Practice

Provide practical, defensible work ability recommendations and collaborate with employers while protecting privacy and clinical independence.

National Growth Opportunity

Contribute to a growing Lifemark occupational health platform with opportunities for program development, quality improvement, and leadership.

Why Join Lifemark

• Join one of Canada’s leading healthcare organizations with a growing national occupational health platform.
• Work alongside occupational health physicians, nurses, allied health clinicians, disability and case management partners, and operations teams supporting complex employer programs.
• Build deep expertise in safety-sensitive medicals, fitness-for-work evaluations, medical surveillance, communicable disease response, and employer-facing occupational health strategy.
• Access onboarding, mentorship, continuing education, and opportunities for leadership across a national network.
• Help design high-quality, scalable occupational health programs for public and private sector clients across Canada.

We also offer

Flexible health benefits – medical, dental, and vision coverage for you and your family.

Paid wellness and vacation days.

Employee Share Ownership Program (Shoppers Drug Mart) – a 25% company match of up to 5% of your base salary.

30% employee discount at Shoppers Drug Mart.

Corporate discount at GoodLife Fitness, WorkPerks, and employee assistance program.

Unlimited referral rewards – up to $5000 per successful hire.

Key Responsibilities

• Conduct comprehensive occupational medical assessments, including pre-placement, post-offer, periodic, surveillance, return-to-work, fit-for-work, disability, and other employer-directed assessments within scope and applicable standards.
• Evaluate work-related and non-work-related medical conditions where occupational implications must be considered, and determine medical restrictions, limitations, accommodations, or follow-up requirements when appropriate to the worker’s role, exposure profile, and clinical concern.
• Review job demands, safety-sensitive requirements, exposure risks, and essential duties when forming occupational medical opinions.
• Order, review, and interpret relevant investigations, screening results, functional information, and specialist reports required to support occupational decision-making (e.g., bloodwork, urinalysis, ECG, audiometry, spirometry, vision screening, TB screening, and other client-specific testing).
• Respond to abnormal results, adverse events, urgent clinical presentations, and communicable disease concerns with timely assessment, escalation, referral, and documentation.
• Provide medical oversight and direction for surveillance, testing programs, and vaccines tied to exposure risks, legislation, standards or client requirements, including abnormal result review, escalation, referral, and clearance processes.
• Assess workers following illness, injury, surgery, hospitalization, or prolonged absence and provide return-to-work and fitness recommendations based on functional capability and occupational risk.
• Collaborate with employers, HR, disability partners, and internal clinicians on accommodation, stay-at-work, and return-to-work planning while maintaining privacy, consent, and role clarity.
• Document assessments, rationale, restrictions, and recommendations clearly, objectively, and within required turnaround times using Lifemark systems and approved forms/templates.
• Maintain timely, defensible, and confidential documentation in the EMR and applicable client systems.
• Provide worker counselling and education regarding results, risk factors, preventive care, exposure controls, immunizations, and recommended next steps.
• Collaborate with other occupational health nurses, nurse practitioners, technicians, clinic teams, and referral providers while maintaining worker confidentiality and appropriate disclosure boundaries.
• Support medical quality, peer consultation, case review, policy development, and continuous improvement activities related to occupational health services.
• Participate in onsite or mobile service delivery, client meetings, case conferences, or travel as required.
• Contribute to infection prevention and control, controlled supply management, equipment quality checks, and service line implementation activities.

Qualifications

• Current registration and good standing as a Nurse Practitioner with the applicable provincial regulator.
• Graduate degree in nursing and successful completion of an approved Nurse Practitioner program.
• Typically, 3+ years of relevant clinical experience; direct occupational health, urgent/primary care, emergency, disability management, public health, or industrial health experience is strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated ability to work autonomously in assessment, diagnostic reasoning, management planning, and clinical documentation.
• Strong understanding of occupational risk assessment, fitness-to-work, functional capability, job demands analysis, restrictions/limitations, accommodations, privacy/confidentiality, and documentation standards in employer-funded services.
• Current CPR/BLS certification.
• Valid driver’s license and access to reliable transportation where travel to worksites is required.
• Proficiency with EMRs and digital clinical documentation systems.

Preferred Assets

• Experience performing or overseeing safety-sensitive medicals, periodic medicals, surveillance testing, or private/public-sector occupational health evaluations.
• Experience with disability case management, return-to-work coordination, and interpretation of job demands or functional limitations.
• Competency or certification in occupational testing such as audiometry, spirometry, respirator fit testing, immunization, TB testing, ECG, phlebotomy/specimen collection, and drug and alcohol testing.
• COHN(C) certification, occupational health coursework (University of Alberta Occupational Medicine courses), or demonstrated occupational medicine experience.
• Experience in transportation, aviation, marine, law enforcement, mining, manufacturing, public safety, public service, construction, or remote/industrial sectors.

Our Nurse Practitioners are

• Clinically strong, organized, and comfortable making sound decisions in fast-paced or variable settings.
• Professional and credible with workers, employers, and multidisciplinary clinical teams.
• Skilled at balancing worker-centered care, privacy, clinical ethics, and employer program requirements.
• Adaptable, solutions-oriented, and committed to high-quality documentation and defensible recommendations.

Inclusion and Accessibility

Lifemark is committed to creating an inclusive, accessible, and respectful workplace. Accommodation is available on request for candidates taking part in all aspects of the recruitment and selection process.