Community LPN

BRIDGEWAY BEHAVIORAL HEALTH SERVICES•Union, NJ

3d•$49,500 - $65,000•Onsite

About The Position

Bridgeway is seeking a Community LPN to join their evidence-based program and dynamic team. This role offers the opportunity to learn and refine clinical and engagement skills while helping individuals on their recovery journeys. The work is challenging yet rewarding, involving engagement with clients and co-workers in a learning and growing environment. The position is part of the CSS team and provides nursing services, direct-support services, care management, education, and primary healthcare to individuals in the community, ensuring their medical needs are met. The Community LPN also offers support and education to other team members regarding nursing/medical treatment and healthcare. Nursing practice supervision is provided by the RN or the Bridgeway Bridge-to-Wellness Medical Advance Practice Nurse.

Requirements

High school diploma or equivalent.
Graduated from an accredited nursing training program.
Possess and maintain licensure, in good standing, in the State of NJ as an LPN.
One year of technical nursing training supplemented with two years of paid work experience in community nursing.
Valid driver’s license.
No more than one moving violation within the past 12 months.
Vehicle required.

Responsibilities

Create and Maintain a wellness and recovery-oriented environment by using person-first language, respectful documentation, and person-centered planning.
Ensure all services provided promote wellness and recovery outcomes.
Create and Maintain a culture of compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, laws and high ethical standards.
Participate with licensed staff in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the individualized rehabilitation plan.
Perform therapeutic rehabilitative skill development as outlined in the CSS Regulations.
Offer services appropriate to meet person’s served needs as 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 curriculum to ensure overall wellness is a key focus in the individual’s recovery plan.
Perform evidence-based practices that are appropriate for implementing community support services. This may include 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 specifically as an integral part of the nursing sub-team led by the RN/APN, frequently monitor, assess, and treat the mental and physical healthcare of persons receiving services, including ongoing assessment and treatment interventions for metabolic syndrome.
Contribute to the development of a nursing assessment, comprehensive assessment and the Individualized Service Plan, providing knowledge and expertise from the nursing discipline.
Administer medication, including oral, topical, and injectable medication.
Perform glucose monitoring as well as teach persons served in the use and value of glucose monitoring devices.
Supervise medication self-administration, including medication counseling and education on medication indications, side-effects, and contraindications.
Monitor and record vital signs, medication reactions, and side-effects. May use additional monitoring tools as indicated in Individual Recovery Plan’s.
Assess persons served ambulation needs.
Assist with daily basic care routines such as bathing, dressing, hygiene.
Provide mental and physical health education, community living skill training, and supportive counseling in the home and other natural environments to consumers and significant others, often focusing on psychiatric and primary care medications, side-effects, and physical healthcare.
Provide crisis intervention services for people served who are diagnosed with acute medical needs whose circumstances and conditions require rapid intervention.
Conduct outreach to new direct service recipients and encourage reluctant persons to accept community healthcare services through interventions with person served and/or family members and friends concerned with the person’s welfare.
Provide technical assistance and education to members of the team in the area of psychiatric and physical healthcare.
Consult with hospital and community medical professionals regarding physical healthcare and wellness needs and coordinate physical healthcare appointments for individuals in preparation for discharge into the community.
Coordinate care management with other service providers and resource people regarding the assessment, treatment, and rehabilitation needs of the person receiving services.