Licensed Practical Nurse

Job Type Registered Practical Nurse/Licensed Practical Nurse

SE Health LPNs are the best of the best. We provide care and independence to our residents, using a client- and family-centered approach that incorporates the most current research into practice. When you choose to join SE Health, you become part of a diverse and collaborative care team where you’ll apply your skills – and your heart – to provide services that support our residents to live and age well.

You’ll make a difference in their lives, and they’ll make a difference in yours!

• Competitive compensation. Our Total Rewards package includes a competitive salary, group benefits, RRSP pension and exclusive perks/discounts available only to SE Health staff.
• Develop yourself with SE. We have education bursaries, Tuition Assistance Programs, continuing education, training, and professional development to support your lifelong learning. You'll benefit from our orientation, mentorship, and coaching programs. And our leadership team will support you to practice to full scope, to integrate the most current evidence into your practice, and is fully available to you 24/7 to support you in delivering the best possible care to your patients.
  
  We have on-site day care also available via a private provider.
• Grow your career. SE Health is a large national inclusive organization with diverse healthcare business lines. You’ll have an opportunity – and will be supported – to do different types of roles in different locations if that is what you’re interested in. Or you can pivot to supporting or leadership positions where you can use your nursing skills to contribute and make an impact in different ways.
• Innovative. At SE, we are always looking for new, innovative ways to improve. You’ll be encouraged and supported to identify and make improvements to the way we do our work. As a social enterprise, we support research into Senior’s Health and Aging. You’ll have the ability to be part of this research firsthand, to learn from it, and will be supported to integrate that research into your practice.
• Empowerment. At our facility, our nurses are provided with a full degree of autonomy of practice, provide clinical leadership to our multi-disciplinary team every day, and are supported with leading-edge training related to Palliative and aging.

Working in an Assisted Living environment, the Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) provides care to tenants requiring nursing assessment, service planning, care planning, interventions, and evaluation of the outcomes. The LPN is also responsible for medication management and monitoring and provides guidance to Community Health Workers (CHWs) in medication management and complex care.

• Assesses care plans, implements, and evaluates care to meet the needs of clients in accordance with competency guidelines and within the established standards of practice and current legislative scope of practice.
• Acts as a health care professional and an active member of the Assisted Living Team by:
• Working collaboratively with the Mental Health teams, Occupational Health Teams and other team members involved in client care
• Assisting the team with assessing, development, implementation and evaluating tenant care plans to meet the care needs of tenants as directed by Vancouver Coastal Health Case Manager and supported by the Manager of Supportive Living Services
• Attending regular team meetings and case conferences
• Observing tenants in their environments and reporting unsafe conditions, behavioral, physical and/or cognitive changes to the Manager – Supportive Living Services
• Shares knowledge, provides direction, assignment, and supervision to unregulated care providers as appropriate
• Is familiar with the Personal Assistance Guidelines as established by Vancouver Coastal Health.
• Provides medication management and administers medication to tenants in accordance with established guidelines and policy. This includes:
• Ensuring that tenants receive medication as prescribed by their physician
• Liaising with pharmacists for the purpose of medication ordering and storage
• Providing guidance to CHWs in medication…