Tech - Psychiatric; Lic

LVN/LPT Opportunity At River Vista Behavioral Health

River Vista Behavioral Health, a new 128-bed facility along the San Joaquin River bluffs, is dedicated to providing advanced behavioral health services to Central Valley residents and visitors. The hospital will employ over 250 staff members, including clinicians, nurses, mental health technicians, support staff, and administration. We are currently seeking a forward-thinking and compassionate LVN/LPT to join our Nursing Team.

The LVN/LPT administers nursing care to designated patients under the direction and supervision of a Registered Nurse. They perform a variety of direct and indirect patient care duties.

Job Requirements:

• Education:
  
  Graduate from an accredited Vocational School of Nursing or Psychiatric Technician program required;
  Current licensure as a Licensed Vocational Nurse or Licensed Psychiatric Technician with the State of California Board of Vocational Nursing and Psychiatric Technicians.
• BLS Certification
• Experience:
  
  Clinical experience in a psychiatric setting preferred
• Additional Requirements:
  
  CPR certification and successful completion of Crisis Prevention Intervention (CPI) training.

Knowledge/

Skills:

• Ability to communicate effectively
• Concentrated and complex mental activity with frequent involvement in complex and/or highly technical situations
• Ability to work successfully under highly stressful conditions
• Sound, independent judgments based on scientific and/or ethical principles
• Comprehension and performance of oral and written instructions and procedures
• Collaboration with other multidisciplinary team members
• Adapting to varying workloads and work assignments
• Effective comprehensive reading skills, strong communication skills, written and verbal
• Math skills to enable calculation of drug dosages and infusion rates

General Working Environment:

• Psychiatric hospital setting
• Risk of aggressive patients
• Day, evening, night, weekend, and/or holiday shifts
• Exposure to outdoor weather conditions, toxic or caustic chemicals, blood borne pathogens, and loud noise levels

Physical Requirements:

• Ability to communicate effectively with patients, their families, staff, and others
• Physical agility to manage patients
• Ability to read and write
• Competent and full performance of Handle with Care techniques
• Physical abilities for walking, fingering, lifting, reaching, crouching, stooping, and smelling
• Physical abilities for standing, speaking, hearing, and seeing with correction for close, distance, and peripheral vision

Equipment/Materials Used:

• Telephone, computer, tape player, copier, fax machine, video player, small hand tools, writing instruments, and clinical equipment

Job Specifications:

• Assists in the delivery of patient care in an acute psychiatric setting
• Provides nursing care within the scope of practice
• Collects data related to patient's condition and reports findings to the Charge/Staff Nurse
• Assists in assessing for pain and documents accordingly
• Assists in organizing and delivering patient care and supervising staff
• Documents patient activity and behavior accurately and timely
• Recognizes when patient is in need of 1:1 intervention and interacts therapeutically
• Reports significant developments to Charge/Staff Nurse
• Provides 1:1 interventions as directed

Service Excellence Criteria:

• Treats everyone as a guest
• Makes a positive first impression and continues that positive impression
• Anticipates the needs and expectations of all people encountered
• Displays service recovery skills
• Demonstrates professionalism and excellence in all things
• Demonstrates professionalism in look, what to do, and what to say
• Holds self accountable and is a positive role model
• Delivers excellence that goes beyond departmental and individual job responsibility
• Practices teamwork
• Participates in decision-making and process improvement
• Communicates effectively within and beyond assigned team
• Focuses on the problem or issue, not the person

Behaviors:

• Always says "please" and "thank you"
• Makes a good first impression by projecting a positive attitude
• Always wears name badge
• Demonstrates a professional image through manner of dress, respectful communication, and adherence to hospital badge policy
• Holds self…