LPN or RN - Early Intervention

Job Opportunity at Meeting Street

Looking for a rewarding career that makes a difference in children's lives? Join the team at Meeting Street! Meeting Street is a special place of learning, where children of all abilities have the opportunities to reach their fullest potential.

Full-time employees receive:

• Competitive Pay
• Generous PTO
• 13 paid holidays
• Medical, dental, vision and MORE

Meeting Street is currently looking for either a Licensed Practical Nurse or a Registered Nurse for 40 hours per week.

Duties:

• Demonstrates competence in interpreting results of screening and evaluation in terms of a child's functional capabilities with an emphasis on self-help skills, fine and gross motor development, mobility, sensory integration, behavior, play and oral-motor functioning and explains results to families in a mindful manner incorporating health literacy.
• Creates adaptation of the environment for infants or toddlers and selects, designs, and fabricates assistive devices to facilitate development and promote the acquisition of functional skills with respect to the family's culture and traditions.
• Develops and implements appropriate treatment plan (IFSP) with the family and EI team.
• Develops therapeutic activities and programs to prevent or minimize the impact of initial or future impairment, delay in development or loss of functional ability.
• Actively includes family throughout the entire evaluation/assessment and IFSP process.
• Works as a member of a multi-disciplinary team to gather and organize information from multiple sources to plan an individualized evaluation/assessment and IFSP.
• Administers a variety of discipline-specific evaluation/assessment procedures using specific protocols and best practices to gather further information to assist in determining eligibility and IFSP development.
• Coordinates and maintains a partnership with the family. Demonstrates consistent communication with EI team, medical and community contacts in a professional, inclusive, compliant, and timely manner.

Meeting Street believes the dignity of each person is paramount. We recognize that our community's future strength rests firmly on our commitment to our values of respect, compassion, integrity, inclusivity, and excellence. To uphold these commitments, we expect all employees to recognize and properly respond to racism and other forms of injustice.

It is our policy to recruit, hire, train, transfer and promote employees, and to ensure that all other employment practices (i.e. salary and benefits administration, education and training programs, and social and recreational programs) are administered without regard to race, color, religion, marital status, gender, sexual preference or orientation, gender expression or identity, age, national origin or ancestry, legally recognized disability, citizenship status, genetic information, veteran status, military status, socioeconomic background, homelessness or any other characteristic or category protected by law. It is also our policy to protect employees and applicants from any coercion, retaliation or discrimination for filing a complaint or assisting in any investigation pursuant to the equal opportunity laws.

Requirements:

• Minimum of 1-year related experience working with infants and toddlers from birth to age 5.
• Licensed as either Practical Nurse or as a Registered Nurse in Rhode Island.
• Valid pediatric CPR and First Aid certification.
• Participates in the orientation process for the agency and attends the state required Intro to EI training within the first year of employment.
• Position hours are Monday to Friday from 8:30 am to 4:45 pm.