Nurse Mentor (LPN) - Assisted Living

Pennybyrn has an opportunity for Nurse Mentor (LPN) to join our innovative, inclusive, and compassionate life-enriching community!

Pennybyrn's mission is powerful, yet simple. We are committed to "Demonstrating God's Love to the Lives we Touch". Our team strives to provide a spirit of service and culture of care to our residents and each other every day.

Responsibilities of a Nurse Mentor (LPN):

This is a Leadership position that supports our Assisted Living community of 48 residents (24 traditional, 24 memory support). The Nurse Mentor assists the Assisted Living Leader with leading, participating, and organizing the work of the households. This position has responsibility for clinical aspects of the team, including recruitment of licensed staff, scheduling, retention, training, payroll, corrective actions, and adherence to policy and procedure. This role is also an advocate of the resident, including admission and discharge, care plans, family and care team communications, ensuring excellence in service and care, and modeling a commitment to meeting the Mission and Values of Pennybyrn. This role is supported by a strong and highly collaborative interdisciplinary team that is dedicated to upholding a long standing, 5-star dedication to quality and service that Pennybyrn is known for.

Candidates must be a licensed LPN in NC, have experience in a supervisory nursing role, eager to jump in where needed (we wear many hats in service to residents), and serve as a rotating on-call weekend leader.

Candidates must also have a genuine passion for serving others, must embrace and successfully contribute to the interdisciplinary team, have excellent clinical, leadership, organizational, and communication skills, while upholding outstanding relationships with residents, representatives, and the care team.

Why work with Pennybyrn?

For almost 80 years, Pennybyrn has been a leader in providing compassionate service and care to older adults. Our non-profit organization embraces a faith-based mission to "Demonstrate God's Love for the Lives we touch", and we are committed to honoring our core values of:

Faith in Action

Support an empowered, compassionate community

Nurture the human spirit and appreciate the individual

Accountability

Excellence in Service

Continuous Education and Growth

Pennybyrn is a resident-centered retirement community with a team-driven culture that is truly engaging and unique! Located in High Point, NC, our community consists of Independent Living, Assisted Living, Healthcare Households, Transitional Rehab, Memory Support, and coming soon, Adult Day Care. Candidates who enjoy working with older adults and strive to inspire extraordinary living in others will love becoming a part of our team!

What sets us apart?

We strive to create and maintain an outstanding working environment for our team that includes a rich benefit package:

• PTO (Paid Time off) eligibility for all employees

• Excellent Medical insurance at a low cost

• Free Dental insurance

• Retirement Plan (401k) eligibility for all employees with matching percentage

• Free Fitness Center membership on-campus

• Free delicious meals

• barber/beauty shop, and massage therapist services

• Acres of beautiful landscaping and walking trails

• Faith-based and mission-drive with a rich and vibrant Irish history since 1947

• A true, team spirit and belief in building relationships and making a difference together!

Keyword: LPN
Required Experience:

JOB REQUIREMENTS

To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below must be representative of the knowledge, skills, minimum education, training, licensure, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

1. Graduate of an approved school of nursing
2. Currently licensed as an LPN in good standing with the North Carolina Board of Nursing.
3. Previous experience with admissions, discharges, MDS, and supervisory experience is required.
4. Previous experience with the Senior population desirable.
5. Good physical and mental health
6. Position requires standing and walking for long periods of time, and sitting for 1/3 of the time.
7. Requires use of hands to finger, handle, or feel, and reaching with hands and arms.
8. Requires stooping, kneeling, crouching, crawling, and bending repeatedly
9. Requires ability to lift, turn, and position residents
10. Requires ability to push and manipulate equipment up to 50 lbs.

Are you the right candidate? Do you have:

- A positive attitude with a willing heart to serve
- Previous supervisory experience
- Detail oriented
- Great documentation skills
- Teamwork
- Flexible, easily adapts to changes
- Previous long-term care experience
- Understanding, patience, tact in dealing with the chronically ill.

From: Pennybyrn