Description

 Peachtree Wellness is a premier, private 20-bed inpatient residential, PHP, and IOP mental health facility in the beautiful town of Peachtree City! We approach patient care from a holistic recovery approach, paying attention to the complex and individualized needs of our patients. Our recovery program utilizes both group and individualized therapy, psychopharmacology, pharmacogenetic testing, red-light therapy, Spravato, EMDR, and bio-sound therapy. We are a voluntary facility – patients are here on their own accord and we do not utilize restraints or forceful measures of treatment.

At Peachtree Wellness, you're not an expendable healthcare professional. Here, we treat you like the valued team member you are! Caring staff and team members are here with you to help you thrive at your job and in your career!

We are currently seeking nightshift 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 judgement

· Willingness to work with clients of all backgrounds and populations

· Patience with client population

· 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 RN 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 trainings 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!