Community LPN

Make a Difference at Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services!

Bridgeway offers uniquely rewarding experience in a supportive Team atmosphere. We invest in our employees. We offer excellent salary and benefits packages, and opportunities to advance your career. Become part of the Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services Team!

Make a Future at Bridgeway!

Who we are: Bridgeway values and promotes quality clinical and administrative practices to foster the best outcomes for persons who come to us for behavioral healthcare. We offer a work environment that supports teamwork, creativity, innovation, professional growth and dedication to the work. At Bridgeway, we never stop growing and innovating our vision of behavioral healthcare for the future.

Why you should apply: 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.

Department: Supported Housing Union (Union County)

Salary: $55,000

Location: Union, NJ

Work hours: Monday through Friday 9 to 5pm, one late night 10 to 6pm.

POSITION OVERVIEW:

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.

Essential Job Functions:

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.
• 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.
• Perform therapeutic rehabilitative skill development as outlined in the CSS Regulations.
• Offer services appropriate to meet person’s served needs as identified in the Comprehensive
• Rehabilitation Needs Assessment (CRNA) and included in each individuals IRP.
• Perform crisis intervention as indicated
• Coordinate and manage services in conjunction with the team.
• Supportive counseling, medication education, mental health education and early crisis intervention
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• In the development of a nursing assessment, comprehensive assessment and the Individualized Service Plan, providing knowledge and expertise from the nursing discipline.
• Medication administration to include: oral, topical and injectable medication.
• Glucose monitoring as well as teaching persons served in the use and value of glucose monitoring devices.
• Supervision of medication self-administration to include medication counseling and education on medication indications, side-effects and contraindications.
• Monitoring and recording of vital signs, medication reactions and side-effects. May use additional monitoring tools as indicated in Individual Recovery Plan’s.
• Assessment of persons served ambulation needs.
• Assistance with daily basic care routines such as: bathing, dressing, hygiene.
• 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.
• Crisis intervention services for people served who are diagnosed with acute medical needs whose circumstances and conditions require rapid intervention.
• 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
• Technical assistance and education to members of the team in the area of psychiatric and physical health care.
• 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
• Coordinates care management with other service providers and resource people regarding the assessment, treatment and rehabilitation needs of the person receiving services

Requirements:

Education/Certifications:

• High school diploma or equivalent, must have graduated from an accredited nursing training program and possess and maintain licensure, in good standing, in the State of NJ as an LPN Experience
• One year of technical nursing training supplemented with two years of paid work experience in community nursing

Driver’s License, Vehicle:

• Valid driver’s license required
• No more than one moving violation within the past 12 months
• Vehicle required

EXCELLENT BENEFITS:

• Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, 403b, basic life and AD&D, flexible spending accounts, EAP
• Eligible for medical benefits after 30 days of employment
• Flexible work schedules, clinical training series, leadership development program
• 10 paid holidays (an 11th after 2 years of employment), generous vacation and sick time

Bridgeway Behavioral Health Services was founded on a strong desire to fight disparity and injustice alongside people living with behavioral health conditions. We are dedicated to providing a multicultural workplace where everyone feels a sense of purpose and belonging. We provide equal opportunity for employees and applicants in all aspects of the employment relationship, without regard to race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender, marital status, military or veteran status, disability, age, religion, or any other classification protected by law.