RN or LPN, ATS, FSW

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Exemption Status: Non-Exempt

Hiring Range: $32.91 - $56.34

Final offer may vary within this range based on a candidate’s experience, skills, qualifications, and internal equity considerations.

Schedule Details: Holidays – One Major Summer Holiday, One Major Winter Holiday, Monday through Friday, Weekends – One Full Weekend a Month

Scheduled

Hours:

07:00‑15:30

Shift: 4 – Mixed Shift, 8 Hours (United States of America)

Hours: 0

Cost Center: 71000 – 0125 ATS

Union: SEIU Local 509 Community Health Link

Signing bonus may be available for qualifying applicants. A member of the Recruitment Team will confirm eligibility during the interview process.

Everyone Is a Caregiver

At UMass Memorial Health, everyone is a caregiver—regardless of title or responsibilities. Exceptional patient care, academic excellence, and leading‑edge research make UMass Memorial the premier health system of Central Massachusetts, and a place where we can help you build the career you deserve. We are more than 20,000 employees, working together as one health system in a relentless pursuit of healing for our patients, community, and each other.

And everyone, in their own unique way, plays an important part, every day.

Provide nursing care for a vulnerable adult population. Performs nursing assessment, treatment, education, and health care service coordination to individuals in need. The Acute Care LPN collaborates with all components of the team and other health care agencies to ensure coordinated, comprehensive services.

• Assess the physical and psychosocial status of patients in all settings by obtaining appropriate patient histories, administering physician/primary care provider orders, nursing assessment, medication administration reconciliation, taking and monitoring vitals of clients on the unit, medication administration, and documentation.
• Render and supervise care of clients on the unit.
• Monitor medication and consult with prescribers.
• Provide appropriate health care and coordinate referrals as prescribed by providers.
• Participate in the evaluation of client’s condition and progress with team members.
• Promote education and adherence to prescribed treatment protocols.
• Facilitate wellness and medically related psycho educational groups to individuals.
• Record all client information within the electronic medical record system daily.
• Assist RN on a daily basis.
• Offer nursing consult on emergency service evaluations.
• Work with clients to coordinate care with their PCP, psychiatrist, and other professionals including but not limited to medication refills and follow‑up medical appointments.

• Maintain overall shift operation in a safe, efficient, and effective manner in the absence of management.
• Direct and supervise staff including all RNs, LPNs, contingent workers and direct care staff/RCS to ensure the delivery of safe and effective patient care.
• Report any urgent issues on the unit to the management team in a timely manner and utilize the administrator on call for any emergency, medical, and disciplinary situations that require further intervention.

• Complies with established departmental policies, procedures, and objectives.
• Attends a variety of meetings, conferences, seminars as required or directed.
• Demonstrates use of quality improvement in daily operations.
• Complies with all health and safety regulations and requirements.
• Respects diverse views and approaches, demonstrates standards of respect, and contributes to creating and maintaining an environment of professionalism, tolerance, civility, and acceptance toward all employees, patients, and visitors.
• Maintains regular, reliable, and predictable attendance.
• Performs other similar and related duties as required or directed.
• All responsibilities are essential job functions.

• Graduate of an accredited school of Nursing with current license as a Licensed Practical Nurse in the state of Massachusetts.
• Satisfactory CORI…