LPN-Physicians

Recover Loudly • Saint Joseph, MO

3d

About The Position

To organize, manage and provide medical support services to clients receiving rehabilitation services.

Requirements

• Hold a current valid license as a practical nurse in MO.
• Have successfully completed training in the provision of injections.
• Have at least four years of experience in dealing with individuals who have major psychiatric illnesses.
• Skills and interest in working with chronically mentally ill individuals.
• Possesses a valid driver’s license and is, and remains insurable, under Family Guidance Center automobile liability insurance.
• Excellent written and oral communication, project management, computer, conceptual and analytical skills.
• Decisiveness, flexibility and an ability to adapt to an environment of growth and change.
• Ability to work effectively within the team environment.
• Some knowledge of the requirements of state and federal law pertaining to the behavioral healthcare program.
• Some knowledge of community resources used in the provision of services.
• Some knowledge of basic supervisory principles and techniques.
• Ability to read, comprehend, and speak in the English language.
• Ability to work harmoniously with employees, recipients, other agencies, and the general public.
• Ability to create, facilitate, assign tasks and coordinate an action plan.
• Ability to handle confidential information appropriately.
• Ability to recognize potential ethical problems and address in ethical manner.
• Ability to express ideas clearly and to interpret laws and regulations.
• Ability to plan and organize working time effectively.
• Ability to perform with autonomy or with minimum direction.

Responsibilities

• Take weights and blood pressures and record results in client records.
• Administer the AIMS to clients on regularly scheduled basis under physician supervision.
• Manage the scheduling of clients to see the physician for medication services and communicate failed appointments to the proper community support worker and/or supervisor.
• Provide education to clients regarding their medication, its benefits and side effects.
• Document educational sessions.
• Collect and present them to the physician.
• Follow-up with the laboratories regarding client compliance with prescribed laboratory tests.
• Provide injections at physician’s orders.
• Review physician charts.
• Attend administrative and management meetings.
• Conduct metabolic screenings.
• Monitor sample medication supply.
• Continue professional training by attending conferences, workshops and in-service training events.
• Provide ongoing assessment of a client’s status including personal strengths, progress, problems and needs.
• Provide preparation and/or revision of a specific individualized treatment plan.
• Monitor client participation and progress in organized treatment programs to assure the planned provision of service according to the client’s individual treatment plan.
• Provide individual assistance to clients as a twenty-four hour a day resource in accessing needed public services including financial, medical and housing.
• Intercede on behalf of individual clients within the community-at-large to assist the client in achieving and maintaining their community adjustment.
• Must be able to use the agency electronic medical record program for all documentation.
• Is required to use collaborative documentation.
• Will meet agency service delivery goals consistently.
• Will meet timeliness of service entry goals 90% of the time.
• Documentation will meet agency standards 95% of the time.

What This Job Offers

• Career Level: Mid Level
• Education Level: Associate degree