Night and Weekend Per Diem CCS LPN

Schedule: Per diem, hours vary, Night and Weekend   Salary: $37.50 / hour   The Per Diem Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) will provide direct service and daily nursing interventions in a Youth Community Crisis Stabilization (CCS) Program, designed to meet the needs of individuals ages13-18 who have behavioral health symptoms who require 24-hour per day care in an unlocked treatment setting.

The Per Diem LPN will provide nursing and medication administration services as well as provide health promotion training and access to medical care to clients and function as part of an interdisciplinary team and support individual's treatment goals using psychoeducation, crisis prevention planning and skills training.

The Per Diem LPN will help ensure the program meets high quality standards and provides value to individuals and a community care system while ensuring a safe and clean environment. The Per Diem LPN will liaison with multi-disciplinary collaborative and community providers as needed.   The Per Diem LPN also:

• Assists the YCCS RN with filling prescriber's orders, administering medications, and monitoring vital signs.
• Works with the YCCS Direct Service Workers in ensuring an environment that promotes safety, recovery, and treatment.
• Contributes to the assessment, treatment plan, individualized crisis planning, discharge planning and care coordination for each individual.
• Implements treatment plans using 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.
• Provides nursing care, teaching, and assistance with activities of daily living according to each client's plan.
• Takes and documents individual's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure per prescriber's orders. May include pulse oximetry.
• Uses crisis intervention techniques when necessary. Accesses on-call back up when needed.
• Completes incident documentation as needed.
• Performs other duties as required.

Why Vinfen?

We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

• 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
• $500 -- $1,000+ Employee Referral Bonuses with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted memberships, access to wellness programs and more!

About Us

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,200 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in 318 programs throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. For more information about Vinfen, please visit www.vinfen.org/careers

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.

Qualifications

• A high school diploma or GED is required; Completion of an accredited LPN program required.
• Licensed as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state of Massachusetts required.
• Three to five years of supervised practical nursing experience preferred, including internships, in a clinical or rehabilitation setting with persons with psychiatric conditions.
• Experience working with people with psychiatric disabilities, medical illnesses, and other co-occurring disorders strongly preferred.
• Experience working with youth and families using evidenced based practices in a community
  mental health and/or substance use clinic, residential, acute or sub-acute or similar setting.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Comfortable using a computer an