Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) - Nexus Family Healing - Manteno, IL

Nexus Family Healing is hiring a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN). The LPN provides medical services, procedures and protocols that promote resident health and well-being.

Our LPN role also offers perks of working in a well-established youth residential setting, including lighter workloads, more consistent hours and more flexible scheduling options, as well as lighter triage responsibilities, with more focus on medication administration. Most of all, you can join a team that truly cares! Apply today!

Nexus Family Healing is a national nonprofit with over 50 years of experience restoring hope for children and families through mental health services, foster care, adoption, and residential treatment. At Nexus Family Healing in Manteno, IL, youth in residential care attend Safe Harbor School, an accredited special education program for grades 6–12, offering individualized curricula with transferable credits upon discharge.

At Nexus Family Healing, we embrace diversity, promote equity, and foster inclusion. As a national mental health organization, we serve a diverse group of youth and families, and we strive for our workforce to support and represent that diversity.

Work Schedule & Salary:

• Schedule: Full Time, 40 hours per week
• Pay rate: $30-33 per hour
• Onsite: Manteno, IL

Benefits:

• Four weeks paid time off (PTO) in the first year of employment
• Multiple options for health insurance coverage
• No-cost life insurance
• Short/long-term disability insurance
• 401k match
• NEW – Talkspace Therapy Benefit for the whole family
• NEW – Hinge Health Benefit for the whole family
• NEW – Carrot Fertility Benefit
• Tuition assistance and training opportunities
• Advancement pathways and internal promotion
• And much more!

Position Summary: The LPN provides medical services, procedures and protocols that promote resident health and well-being.

Primary responsibilities:

Client Centered Medical Care

• Monitor acute and chronic medical conditions of clients; provides treatment or consultation as needed
• Gather relevant information and assess client status in the event of an emergency situation
• Provide appropriate care and/or treatment and directs others as necessary while collaborating to provide and facilitate a referral to higher level of care when appropriate

As needed additional client responsibilities:

• Assist with all aspects of the client admissions, and nursing assessments with exception to medical exam
• Assess pertinent client data and determines which areas need to be communicated with the physician
• Collect and maintain clients’ medical data and ensure that medical records are current and accurate including client height and weight
• Collaborate with appropriate team members regarding medical aspects of client admissions
• Coordinate necessary follow-up appointments and/or referrals with interdisciplinary teams and communicates medical concerns

Treatment Team Collaboration

• Serve as a resource to staff and other interdisciplinary teams regarding client medical concerns
• Collaborate with the treatment staff to develop individual client treatment plans

Promotes client health & well-being

• Perform centered health care services, in accordance with the Nexus policies, procedures and protocols
• Complete all required training that are department role specific and facility -wide requirements
• Maintain and stay apprised with training and certifications (online training, internal and external, in-person training, CPR certifications, nursing license, first aid and safety, medication administration, and infection control etc.
• Participate in internal training opportunities with community partners

Client Confidentiality

• Ensure client information remains confidential and compliant with Nexus policies involving client privacy, informed consent and confidentiality standards for clients and their families

Implement, monitor and coordinator the administration of client medications

• Verify, count, and administer medication
• Educate clients on medication side effects, adverse effects, and drug interactions
• Monitor clients daily for side effects, adverse effects and or drug interactions
• Ensure client prescriptions are filled and the appropriate amount is maintained through each client’s stay within the resident milieu
• Documentation of medication administration in electronic health record
• Monitor medication logbooks for completion and accuracy as needed

Required Education and Licensure:

• Graduate of an accredited school of Practical Nursing
• 2+ years’ experience in a clinic and/or hospital environment
• Valid driver’s license required. Must meet state regulating agency and Nexus Home Office driving requirements
• Must successfully pass an IL DCFS criminal background check.

Preferred Education and Experience:

• 4+ years’ experience in a clinic and/or hospital environment

ICARE Values & Behavioral Competencies:

• Innovation: Leading the way and implementing creative, cutting-edge ideas and approaches.
• Compassion: Listening, honoring differences, and showing respect, kindness, empathy, care, and concern.
• Agility: Exhibiting flexibility and adapting quickly.
• Responsiveness: Being quick, positive, and accurate.
• Excellence: Demonstrating quality results that surpass ordinary standards.

Commitment to Diversity, Equity, & Inclusion:

At Nexus Family Healing, our voices and actions are focused on recognizing, affirming and respecting people of every race, ethnic background, socio-economic status, sexual orientation, gender expression and faith.

APPLY TODAY TO BE CONTACTED BY OUR RECRUITING TEAM! When you work at Nexus, you have the opportunity to change lives — including your own!