Closed Nov 10, 2026 Lehigh Valley Health Network
Division Chief of Occupational Medicine
Job at a glance
- Workplace
- On-site
- Employment
- Full-time
- Sector
- Healthcare
- Posted
- Nov 9, 2026
- First found
- Nov 9, 2026, 12:37 PM ET
About the job
Imagine a career at one of the nation's most advanced health networks.
Be part of an exceptional health care experience. Join the inspired, passionate team at Lehigh Valley Health Network, a nationally recognized, forward-thinking organization offering plenty of opportunity to do great work.
LVHN has been ranked among the "Best Hospitals" by U.S. News & World Report for 23 consecutive years. We're a Magnet(tm) Hospital, having been honored five times with the American Nurses Credentialing Center's prestigious distinction for nursing excellence and quality patient outcomes in our Lehigh Valley region. Finally, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Cedar Crest, Lehigh Valley Hospital - Muhlenberg, Lehigh Valley Hospital- Hazleton, and Lehigh Valley Hospital - Pocono each received an 'A' grade on the Hospital Safety Grade from The Leapfrog Group in 2020, the highest grade in patient safety. These recognitions highlight LVHN's commitment to teamwork, compassion, and technology with an unrelenting focus on delivering the best health care possible every day.
Whether you're considering your next career move or your first, you should consider Lehigh Valley Health Network.
Specialty:
General Responsibilities:
The Occupational Medicine Division Chief will provide the leadership needed to accomplish the mission and goals that have been articulated by the Network, Department, and Division and will be responsible for oversight of all programs. The Chief will work closely with the Department Chair, Chiefs of other divisions, Associate Chiefs, Medical Directors, Practice Leaders, and other divisional leaders to maintain, strengthen, and develop programs in keeping with the overarching mission of the Jefferson Lehigh. The Chief will work collaboratively with other regional and local partners on mutually agreed upon initiatives.
The Chief is responsible for clinical leadership of all occupational medicine physicians and Advanced Practice Clinicians and reports up through the Chair, Department of Medicine. Performing regular and on-going clinical care is a key to demonstrating leadership in this role. In addition, other key roles include participating, with administrative colleagues, in marketing, planning and delivery of industrial medicine services to the Lehigh Valley and surrounding area corporate and municipal communities (clients) and their employees. The services provided by occupational medicine include, but are not limited to, Workers' Compensation care for injuries and illness, physical examinations for job pre-placement, surveillance, certification (such as for Department of Transportation), on-site physician and nursing services, corporate medical policy consulting, corporate medical directorship services, drug and alcohol testing (with Medical Review Officer services) and other services as required. Leadership accountability includes strategic planning and the clinical, operational and financial integration of industrial medicine services throughout the network continuum of care. Other responsibilities include working with administrators to provide oversight of overall operations, marketing, financial performance including annual revenues, practice start-ups, acquisitions, and other network development opportunities. The Chief of the Division of Occupational Medicine will monitor the business and regulatory environment pertaining to occupational medicine in order to provide a broad perspective for clients and for LVHN. This position also provides leadership oversight to other ancillary departments as assigned.
Specific Responsibilities:
In collaboration with other divisional leadership, the Chief will:
Clinical Programs
1. Establish clinical services having uniformly high professional standards in occupational medicine practices across all Jefferson Lehigh campuses.
2. Develop innovative clinical growth programs that are market sensitive and well differentiated from the competition in local and/or national markets.
3. Establish clinical programs that are integrated across Divisions and Departments to provide seamless and unified products for the health system.
4. In conjunction with the Department and Network, develop meaningful quality improvement programs with rigorous assessment of clinical outcomes and resource utilization.
5. Promote career development of clinicians while meeting clinical service demands.
6. Provide consultation and community leadership in the Division's area of expertise across all regions and campuses.
7. Develop a system to review the quality of care and level of service provided to patients, payers and outside referral sources.
8. Work closely with private practice physicians in the division to ensure that their input and needs are addressed.
9. Provide regular updates on program progress including submission of monthly division reports to DOM leadership.
Education and Scholalry Activity
1. Provide educational leadership, functioning as a role model in the Department and in the Network regarding relevant content and professional areas.
2. In conjunction with the educational leaders of the Network, develop continuing medical education programs to serve the physicians in the Division and the Department.
3. Mentor Divisional physicians and faculty and provide professional career advancement opportunities in areas such as quality improvement, research, education, administration.
4. Create an environment conducive for research and scholarly activity to support further development of clinical programs and other strategic initiatives.
5. Identify educational leadership, assuring educational requirements/needs of program are met.
6. Accommodate needs of UME and GME.
7. Helping facilitate ongoing professional and educational development of members of team (faculty).
Community Service
l. Provide leadership in the community for the Division, Department, and Network.
2. When appropriate, facilitate community partnerships that will build capacity for programs within the community and Division, Department, and Network.
3. Represent the Division, Department, and Network in the community with professional integrity.
Administration
l . Align Divisional goals and objectives with those of the Department and the Network.
a. Establish short and long term goals for the division.
b. Assist members of the division with personal goals.
c. Assure Network-wide programs/initiatives are established.
d. Provide regular status reports about goals and objectives
e. Assure annual performance reviews are completed for division providers
2. Participate actively in Departmental governance and strategic planning.
3. Administer a fiscally sound Division according to Department and LVPG (when appropriate) guidelines.
4. In collaboration with the Chair, propose faculty for promotion and leadership and negotiate their annual compensation according to Departmental policies.
a. Assist Chair with determination of appropriate fair market value for physicians and APC's.
b. Participate in annual reviews of compensation for division providers.
c. Assist with contract renewals.
5. Support faculty participation in Departmental and Institutional administrative activities and meetings.
6. Promote matrix management of Divisional administrative personnel by central Departmental leadership.
7. Promote programmatic development by working collaboratively with central Departmental clinical, educational and research leaders.
8. Promote and exemplify Jefferson Values consistent with the network mission and medical staff bylaws.
General Responsibilities:
l . Responsible for regional recruitment for Division.
2. Meet with every member of the division individually or in relevant groups to help address division’s needs and to set expectations.
3. Create an environment that promotes wellness, engagement and a positive colleague experience.
4. Hold monthly divisional meetings. Information distributed at these meetings can be driven by network, DOM, or divisional news. There should be a particular focus on priorities such as new programs, promoting Telehealth, improving quality of care, teaching, research, or community service.
5. Appoint new leadership to the different areas of the division. This should be inclusive of the needs of the division and department and the individual.
6. Attend all DOM Chief Leadership meetings as scheduled
7. Attend monthly DOM department meetings as scheduled.
8. Attend LVPG's Financial and Operational Review meetings (for LVPG entities only).
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Attend DOM events including leadership retreats held annually.
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Attend financial operations meetings with Occ Med leadership on a regular basis
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Complete credentialing and privileging criteria for the division with the medical staff office as requested.
Lehigh Valley Health Network is an equal opportunity employer. In accordance with, and where applicable, in addition to federal, state and local employment regulations, Lehigh Valley Health Network will provide employment opportunities to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or other such protected classes as may be defined by law. All personnel actions and programs will adhere to this policy. Personnel actions and programs include, but are not limited to recruitment, selection, hiring, transfers, promotions, terminations, compensation, benefits, educational programs and/or social activities.
Lehigh Valley Health Network does not accept unsolicited agency resumes. Agencies should not forward resumes to our job aliases, our employees or any other organization location. Lehigh Valley Health Network is not responsible for any agency fees related to unsolicited resumes.
Work Shift:
Day Shift
Address:
26 Station Circle
Primary Location:
Hazle Township- Station Circle
Position Type:
Onsite
Union:
Not Applicable
Work Schedule:
Department:
1012-35504 LVPG-H Occupational Medicine - Station Circle