Description

We are currently seeking Day Shift LPNs who understand the special touch that mental health/substance abuse patients require. The ideal candidate will have the following qualities:

· Compassion towards people in recovery and in mental health treatment

· Excellent nursing judgment

· Willingness to work with clients of all backgrounds and populations

· Patience with mental health and substance use patients

· Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

· Willingness to learn new skills

· Self-starter and problem solver

· Psych/Detox experience a major plus but passion for working with this population is a requirement!

· We are a new grad and LGBTQA friendly facility!

Requirements

Job Duties include:

· Assisting with the taking and recording of daily client vital signs and assessments

· Administering medications and treatments as per provider protocol

· Assisting RNs and DON with patient admissions and discharges

· Recording client observations and reporting to the medical team as needed

· Compassionately interacting with the client population to encourage engagement in treatment

· Maintain a safe and sanitary environment

· Attending staff training and meetings as required by the employer

· Communicating with the pharmacy as needed

· Completing patient nursing admissions not limited to: intake surveys, blood draws, TB testing, Genesight swabbing

· Follows all policies and procedures with regard to patient information protection, including alcohol-drug patient confidentiality and HIPAA

· Other duties as assigned

Qualifications:

· Current licensure in GA as an LPN.

· Able to read, analyze, and interpret policies and directions, and present information effectively, both orally and written

· Ability to work with both chemically dependent and individuals in psychiatric care in a non-judgmental, compassionate fashion

· Demonstrated ability to establish effective working relationships with other staff as well as with referral sources

· Job requires regular sitting, standing, walking, stooping, bending, kneeling, crouching, reaching, pushing, pulling, twisting, writing, etc. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to: sit; use hands to finger, handle or feel objects, implements or office equipment; talk and hear; stand and walk, reach with hands and arms; stoop or kneel. Employee must occasionally lift up to 50 pounds and occasionally be able to assist an adult weighing 100-200 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close, distance and color vision and the ability to adjust focus.

· Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts and draw valid conclusions from a wide variety of data and deal with several abstract and concrete variables.

· Experience worked with people in recovery or in mental heath treatment a plus, professionally, or personally!