LPN Nights Float

Community Name: SEM Haven

The Charge Nurse works cooperatively and respectfully with elders, coworkers, families, visitors and volunteers to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home. He or she delivers nursing care to elders according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines and local, state and federal regulations. The Charge Nurse actively promotes the elder’s opportunities for engaging in normal life pursuits and improving and/or maintaining functioning levels.

The Charge Nurse is a participant in elder-centered care and team based management and is involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household(s). The role is to provide elders of SEM Haven with support, friendship, and kindness so they may live as independently as they wish. Treatment of all with respect is the most important function, and no person is more or less important than any other.

As a member of a family team you are responsible for tasks as necessary to maintain life in the household, including food preparation and serving, picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills, transporting elders, attending household meetings, learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for elders.

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, this does not list all duties; omissions do not exclude similar or related tasks required in this role.

Success on the job requires the following physical abilities:

• Mobility – Able to move freely about
• Lifting – Regularly up to 25 lbs.
• Climbing/Balancing – Occasionally
• Stoop or Bending – Regularly
• Pushing – Occasionally up to 25 lbs.
• Standing or Sitting – Regularly
• Reaching – Regularly
• Speaking – Must be able to speak, read & write English understandably
• Vision & Hearing – Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will allow adequate function

General stresses in a long‑term care environment include shift rotation, weekend and holiday duty, unusual or impaired behaviour by elders, family reactions, death and dying, oversight of state surveyors, ombudsmen, federal officials, consultants and attorneys, and variable involvement of medical staff.

Education/

Experience:

Graduate of an accredited school of nursing; previous long‑term care experience preferred.

Freedom from illegal drug use and alcohol in the workplace is essential.

We’re an equal‑opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

SEM Haven is a non‑profit ministry providing nursing and residential care for older adults of varying economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. We strive to preserve and promote human dignity, self‑determination, individual freedom and an accustomed lifestyle. Our vision is for SEM Haven to be a home where companionship and caring relationships thrive through empowerment and personal choice.