Community LPN

Make a Difference at Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services!

Bridgeway offers a uniquely rewarding experience in a supportive team atmosphere. We invest in our employees and provide excellent salary and benefits packages, as well as opportunities to advance your career. Join the Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services Team!

Who we are: Bridgeway values and promotes quality clinical and administrative practices to foster the best outcomes for persons who come to us for behavioral healthcare. We offer a work environment that supports teamwork, creativity, innovation, professional growth, and dedication to the work. At Bridgeway, we never stop growing and innovating our vision of behavioral healthcare for the future.

Why you should apply: As a Community LPN, you will join an evidence-based program and a dynamic team to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills, helping people progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging but always rewarding, engaging with clients and colleagues as we all learn, grow, and thrive.

• Department: RIST 2 (Middlesex County)
• Salary: $52,900 - $69,500
• Location:
  
  Fords, NJ
• Full Time

Work hours: Monday-Friday 9:00am-5:00pm

As part of the CSS team, the Community LPN provides nursing services, direct-support services, care management, education, and primary health care to persons served. Assured that medical needs are addressed in the community, the LPN supports and educates other team members in nursing/medical treatment and health care. Nursing practice supervision is provided by the RN or in group format quarterly by the Bridgeway Bridge-to-Wellness Medical Advance Practice Nurse.

• A wellness and recovery-oriented environment using person‑first language, respectful documentation, and person‑centered planning. All services promote wellness and recovery outcomes.
• A culture of compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, laws, and high ethical standards.

• Participate with licensed staff in developing, implementing, and monitoring individualized rehabilitation plans.
• Perform therapeutic rehabilitative skill development as outlined in CSS regulations.
• Offer services appropriate to meet client needs identified in the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Needs Assessment (CRNA) and included in each individual’s IRP.
• Perform crisis intervention as indicated.
• Coordinate and manage services in conjunction with the team.
• Provide supportive counseling, medication education, mental health education, and early crisis intervention.
• Utilize Illness Management and Recovery, WRAP, and other relevant health and wellness curricula to ensure overall wellness is a key focus in the recovery plan.
• Perform evidence‑based practices such as Motivational Interviewing, Cognitive Behavioral, and Educational Strategies, Permanent Supportive Housing, IMR, and WRAP.
• Participate in group and individual supervision; actively seek own supervision at least monthly.

• As a team member and integral part of the nursing sub‑team led by the RN/APN, conduct frequent monitoring, assessment, and treatment of mental and physical health care, including ongoing assessment and treatment interventions for metabolic syndrome.
• Develop nursing assessments, comprehensive assessments, and Individualized Service Plans, providing knowledge and expertise from the nursing discipline.
• Administer medication orally, topically, and via injection.
• Monitor glucose and teach clients to use and value glucose monitoring devices.
• Supervise medication self‑administration, counsel on indications, side‑effects, and contraindications.
• Monitor and record vital signs, medication reactions, and side‑effects; use additional monitoring tools as indicated in the Individual Recovery Plan.
• Assess ambulation needs.
• Assist with daily basic care routines such as bathing, dressing, and hygiene.
• Provide mental and physical health education, community living skill training, and supportive counseling in the home and other natural environments, focusing on psychiatric and primary care medications,…