LVN, Mental Health

Are you looking for a purpose-driven career? At Metrocare, we serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying.

Metrocare is the largest provider of mental health services in North Texas, serving over 55,000 adults and children annually. For over 50 years, Metrocare has provided a broad array of services to people with mental health challenges and developmental disabilities. In addition to behavioral health care, Metrocare provides primary care centers for adults and children, services for veterans and their families, accessible pharmacies, housing, and supportive social services.

Alongside clinical care, researchers and teachers from Metrocare’s Altshuler Center for Education & Research are advancing mental health beyond Dallas County while providing critical workforce to the state.

The mission of Metrocare Services is to serve our neighbors with developmental or mental health challenges by helping them find lives that are meaningful and satisfying. We are an agency committed to quality gender-responsive, trauma-informed care to individuals experiencing serious mental illness, development disabilities, and co-occurring disorders. Metrocare programs focus on the issues that matter most in the lives of the children, families and adults we serve.

Professional care-giver who assumes responsibility and accountability for a group of consumers for a designated time frame and provides care to those consumers via the therapeutic use of self, the nursing process, the therapeutic environment, treatment and modalities and interdisciplinary collaboration.

Metrocare clinics are open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., except for the Hillside Adult Clinic, which is open Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., and Saturday, 8:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

• Assist consumer in identifying and articulating his/her problems and needs.
• Administer medication competently and safely
• Intervene as guided to implement nursing actions that promote, maintain or restore physical and mental health, prevent illness and effect rehabilitation.
• Document all meetings and notes pertaining to consumer plans
• Perform Venipuncture skills using accepted technique including universal precautions
• Perform nursing assessments
• Demonstrate ability to manage consumers on medication commonly used by this Agency
• Provide physician extender services
• Obtain vital signs as ordered
• Provide patient and family training regarding health and support topics
• Performs other duties as assigned.

• Conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the ethical standards of conduct, state contract, appropriate professional standards and applicable state/federal laws
• Analytical skills, professional acumen, business ethics, thorough understanding of continuous improvement processes, problem solving, respect for confidentiality, and excellent communication skills.
• Self-motivating, able to work independently
• Strong organizational and time management skills
• Ability to communicate and collaborate with a variety of individuals, teams and systems.
• Able to apply working knowledge of MS Office 95/97
• Record data neatly, coherently, accurately, and objectively.
• Knowledge of laws, regulations and policies and procedures related to the Agency and all stakeholders
• Creative service implementation processes designed to meet the needs of people served.
• Emergency/Crisis Intervention skills
• Conducts job responsibilities in accordance with the ethical standards of conduct, state contract, appropriate professional standards and applicable state/federal laws
• Analytical skills, professional acumen,…