What are the responsibilities and job description for the Youth Mental Health LPN position at VINFEN?
Schedule: Thu-Sat 7pm-7am
Salary: $33.00/ hour
Sign-on bonus: $1000; $500 upon completion of 30 days, $500 upon completion of 6 months
The Youth Community Crisis Stabilization (YCCS) Licensed Practical Nurse provides direct service and daily nursing interventions in a YCCS program for youth who have behavioral health symptoms. The Youth Community Crisis Stabilization program is designed to meet the needs of individuals ages 13-18 who have behavioral health symptoms that require 24-hour per day care in an unlocked treatment setting. The LPN provides nursing and medication administration services, health promotion training and access to medical care to clients. The LPN functions as part of an interdisciplinary team and support individual's treatment goals using psychoeducation, crisis prevention planning and skills training. The LPN's efforts ensure that the YCCS program meet high quality standards and provide value to individuals and a community care system.
Additional responsibilities include but at not limited to:
- Assist the YCCS RN with filling prescriber's orders, administering medications, and monitoring vital signs.
- Work with the YCCS Direct Service Workers in ensuring an environment that promotes safety, recovery, and treatment.
- Contribute to the assessment, treatment plan, individualized crisis planning, discharge planning and care coordination for each individual.
- Implement treatment plans through use of recovery-oriented, motivational interviewing, harm-reduction, trauma-informed, culturally competent and strengths-based rehabilitation approaches to help youth successfully and safely transition to home or an alternate optimal setting.
- Provide nursing care, teaching and assistance with activities of daily living, according to each client's plan.
- Take and document individual's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure per prescriber's orders. May include pulse oximetry.
- Conduct wellness psycho-educational groups for individuals.
- Assist in the liaison between individuals and community health care providers to promote access to community resources and quality care at all levels.
- Perform other duties as assigned.
Why Vinfen?
We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!
- Medical, Dental and Vision Insurance for employees working 30 hours or more
- 15 days of Vacation, 12 Paid Holidays, 10 Sick Days and 3 Personal Days per year (for employees scheduled for 20 hours or more)
- Education Assistance and Tuition Remission Programs as well as innovative Student Loan Payment Programs. Employment with Vinfen counts toward your Public Student Loan Forgiveness eligibility
- Professional Development programs including year-round online training courses and opportunities to earn CEUs
- Retirement savings programs, including a fully funded, employer sponsored retirement plan and an employee funded 403 (b) plan
- Company paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability Insurance
- Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
- Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
- $500 -- $1,000 Employee Referral Bonuses with no annual cap!
- Other generous benefits including discounted memberships, access to wellness programs and more!
About Us
Founded in 1977, for over 40 years Vinfen has been a leading nonprofit human services organization that "transforms lives" by building the capacity of individuals, families, organizations and communities to learn, thrive and achieve their goals. Vinfen supports thousands of adolescents and adults with psychiatric, developmental and behavioral disabilities at more than 200 sites with over 3,000 employees in eastern Massachusetts and Connecticut. www.vinfen.org/careers
My Vinfen. My Community. My Job.
Vinfen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.
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