LPN - $20k Sign-On Bonus

Acadia • Williamsburg, PA

1d • Onsite

About The Position

Cove Forge Behavioral Health Center is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) to provide nursing care to adults receiving treatment for substance use disorders and certain co-occurring mental health concerns. The facility, located in Williamsburg, Pennsylvania, offers detoxification, residential rehabilitation, and outpatient programming. New graduate LPNs are welcome to apply.

The LPN provides care within the scope of nursing practice and applicable state regulations, facility policies, procedures, and protocols. The role emphasizes patient safety, individualized care, therapeutic communication, accurate documentation, and a positive, empathetic, professional attitude.

The full-time schedule is an evening shift from 3 p.m. to 11 p.m., in eight-hour shifts. Part-time and PRN options are also available. The posting offers a $20,000 sign-on bonus for full-time positions and notes that benefits are available with some part-time opportunities.

Requirements

• Graduation from an accredited school of nursing.
• Current LPN/LVN license as required by the state.
• CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification; training is available upon hire and offered by the facility.

Nice To Haves

• One or more years of nursing experience in the clinical area served by the facility is preferred.
• New graduate LPNs are welcome to apply.

Responsibilities

• Monitor patient health and provide basic care using the nursing process within the LPN/LVN scope of practice, supporting care-plan objectives and goals.
• Model customer-service expectations and respond with urgency to patient-safety concerns.
• Collaborate with others to address patients’ physical, biopsychosocial, age-related, developmental, and cultural needs, and work to resolve customer complaints.
• Provide for patients’ basic comfort and implement individualized nursing interventions identified in their plans of care.
• Apply appropriate interventions to advance patient wellness and support its maintenance.
• Discuss care with patients, listen to their concerns, and report status changes and concerns to registered nurses and doctors.
• Communicate therapeutically and professionally with patients, visitors, coworkers, and others involved in treatment.
• Deliver medications safely in accordance with policies and procedures, physicians’ orders, and current practice.
• Maintain professional nursing standards in accordance with facility policies and procedures, external governing and credentialing bodies, performance-improvement standards, and psychiatric nursing standards.
• Accurately and thoroughly document and report patient symptoms, responses, and progress.
• Perform other functions and tasks as assigned.

Benefits

• $20,000 sign-on bonus for full-time positions.
• Shift differentials.
• Benefits are available with some part-time opportunities.
• Training for CPR and de-escalation/restraint certification is available upon hire and offered by the facility.

What This Job Offers

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