Licensed Vocational Nurse

Job Code: LVN - 112

Revision Date: November 15, 2022

Starting Salary: $19.52 hourly; $40,606 annually

FLSA: Non‑Exempt

We are an agency committed to innovative behavioral health services in trauma‑informed care that promote healing and recovery to instill empowerment and foster a lifelong sense of resilience.

The purpose of this job is to plan, implement, and evaluate psychiatric and medical needs of consumers. This class works independently, under limited supervision, reporting major activities through periodic meetings.

The functions listed below are those that represent the majority of the time spent working in this position. Management may assign additional functions related to the type of work of the position as necessary.

• Provides direct care to patients within discipline scope of practice and performs functions in accordance with current accepted practice, licensure, certification, credentialing and or granted privileges.
• Provides treatment of persons throughout the life span as appropriate to discipline and setting.
• May be expected to respond to and/or coordinate response to emergency needs of patients. Must appropriately document patient encounters electronically according to current standards of care using electronic health records.
• Assesses, evaluates and monitors the health care needs of patients using data related to the patient as applicable within scope of practice.
• Obtains patients' medical histories and appropriately refers abnormal findings or responses or stated medical problems to the physician and/or mid‑level provider.
• Adheres to professional nursing principles, procedures and techniques for appropriate patient care and takes direction from onsite administrative personnel.
• Adheres to medication administration guidelines, understands pharmaceutical agents and their desired effects, recognizes adverse effects and takes appropriate corrective measures as needed.
• Provides patient health education as appropriate.
• Participates as a member of an inter‑professional team to ensure that equipment, supplies and logs are available, correct and updated.
• Ensures all equipment is functional and appropriately maintained according to manufacturer's requirements.
• May serve as clinic coordinator to ensure effective and efficient clinical operations.
• May participate in peer reviews, quality improvement/quality assurance activities, infection control activities, investigations or other clinically significant activities.
• Performs record‑keeping functions in accordance with program policies and position.
• Maintains functional proficiency and ease of use utilizing electronic health records as required by, and appropriate to, position.
• Completes and passes all discipline‑specific competencies testing, initially and annually.
• Completes all initial, annual and ad‑hoc training as required/assigned.
• Maintains patient confidentiality, and confidentiality of medical records, in compliance with the Privacy Act and HIPAA regulations in all work activities.
• Adheres to, and maintains awareness of organizational policies, procedures, directives, and accreditation standards.
• Adheres to, and participates in, organizational safety, prevention, infection and control, quality improvement, patient education and other programs and collateral duties as appropriate to position.
• Attends and participates in general/medical staff meetings.
• Other duties as assigned.

Requires a Vocational Nurse Degree supplemented by two (2) years of experience in a mental health clinical care setting; or possession of any equivalent combination of education, training, and experience which provides the requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities.

Experience with trauma‑informed services; cognitive behavioral therapies, including DBT; and motivational therapies including the use of incentives, preferred.

Knowledge of trauma‑informed theories, principals, and practices (includes multi‑faceted understanding of concepts such as community trauma, intergenerational and historical trauma, parallel processes, and universal precautions),…