LPN - Community Supported Housing

Woods Services•Union, NJ

19h•Remote

About The Position

As a Community LPN, you will join an evidence-based program and a dynamic team for the opportunity to learn and refine your clinical and engagement skills and accomplish your dream of helping people to make progress on their unique recovery journeys. The work is sometimes challenging and always rewarding by engaging with persons we serve and co-workers as we all learn, grow, and thrive. As part of the CSS team, provides nursing services, direct-support services, care management, education and primary health care to persons served. Assures that medical needs are being addressed in the community. Provides support and education to 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.

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. All services provided will promote wellness and recovery outcomes.
Create and Maintain: A culture of compliance with internal and external policies, regulations, laws and high ethical standards
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Participates with the licensed staff in the development, implementation, and monitoring of the individualized rehabilitation plan.
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Perform therapeutic rehabilitative skill development as outlined in the CSS Regulations.
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Offer services appropriate to meet person’s served needs as identified in the Comprehensive Rehabilitation Needs Assessment (CRNA) and included in each individuals IRP.
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Perform crisis intervention as indicated
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Coordinate and manage services in conjunction with the team.
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Supportive counseling, medication education, mental health education and early crisis intervention
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Utilizes 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.
Community Support Services Responsibilities: 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.
Community Support Services Responsibilities: Participates in group and individual supervision. Actively seeks own supervision at least monthly
Direct Medical Care-Provides: As a team member, and specifically as an integral part of the nursing sub-team led by the RN/APN, in the frequent monitoring, assessment and treatment of the mental and physical health care of persons receiving services including ongoing assessment and treatment interventions for metabolic syndrome.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: In the development of a nursing assessment, comprehensive assessment and the Individualized Service Plan, providing knowledge and expertise from the nursing discipline.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Medication administration to include: oral, topical and injectable medication.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Glucose monitoring as well as teaching persons served in the use and value of glucose monitoring devices.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Supervision of medication self-administration to include medication counseling and education on medication indications, side-effects and contraindications.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Monitoring and recording of vital signs, medication reactions and side-effects. May use additional monitoring tools as indicated in Individual Recovery Plan’s.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Assessment of persons served ambulation needs.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Assistance with daily basic care routines such as: bathing, dressing, hygiene.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: 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 health care.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Crisis intervention services for people served who are diagnosed with acute medical needs whose circumstances and conditions require rapid intervention.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Outreach to new direct service recipients and encourages reluctant persons to accept community healthcare services through interventions with person served and/or family members and friends concerned with the person’s welfare
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Technical assistance and education to members of the team in the area of psychiatric and physical health care.
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Consults with hospital and community medical professionals regarding physical healthcare and wellness needs and coordinates physical healthcare appointments for individuals in preparation for discharge into the community
Direct Medical Care-Provides: Coordinates care management with other service providers and resource people regarding the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation needs of the person receiving services.