LPN (CCCA) Full Time

DHRM • Staunton, VA

5d • Onsite

About The Position

The LPN provides high quality acute psychiatric evaluation, crisis stabilization, and intensive short-term treatment that empowers children and their families to make developmentally appropriate choices and that strengthens children’s hope, resilience, and self-esteem.

Requirements

• Knowledge of illness and treatment modalities, especially medication management.
• Ability to implement nursing care plan and provide guidance to Psychiatric Care Techs.
• Computer skills and ability to document without error in the Electronic Health Record.
• Skilled at communicating with a young patient population with special needs.
• Able to communicate effectively at all levels across treatment teams and within nursing department.
• Demonstrated knowledge of mental health psychiatric diagnosis, trauma-informed care, and treatments.

Nice To Haves

• Bilingual Skills
• Veteran
• Spouse of a Veteran

Responsibilities

• Provides high quality acute psychiatric evaluation, crisis stabilization, and intensive short-term treatment.
• Empowers children and their families to make developmentally appropriate choices.
• Strengthens children’s hope, resilience, and self-esteem.
• Implements nursing care plans.
• Provides guidance to Psychiatric Care Techs as necessary.
• Documents accurately in the Electronic Health Record.
• Communicates effectively with a young patient population with special needs.
• Communicates effectively at all levels across treatment teams and within the nursing department.

Benefits

• Confirmation of receipt when application and/or résumé is submitted successfully.
• Fingerprint-based criminal history check.
• Reference checks.
• COVID-19 vaccination programs are encouraged and offered.
• Disclosure of immunization status may be required for infection prevention and/or management of outbreaks.
• New recruits will be asked to disclose vaccination status during the pre-employment process.
• Reasonable accommodations are available to persons with disabilities during the application and/or interview process per the Americans with Disabilities Act.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree