Licensed Practical Nurse

You are applying for a position through Medix, a staffing agency. The actual posting represents a position at one of our clients.

Job Summary

Our client is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse who will play a key role in patient intake, clinical collaboration, patient experience, and providing hands-on clinical support. This position requires a focus on compliance and documentation while providing health coaching to senior patients.

Key Responsibilities

• Patient Intake & Screening: Conduct patient intake by measuring and recording vital signs, interviewing patients, and documenting thorough medical histories. Perform routine screenings while ensuring patients are well-informed and comfortable.
• Clinical Collaboration: Engage with patients throughout their appointments, immediately reporting any changes in health status or specific needs to the PCP or specialist teams.
• Patient Experience & Advocacy: Process patient phone messages, return calls, route clinical inquiries to appropriate team members, and relay critical physician instructions.
• Hands-on Clinical Support: Perform venipunctures, IV starts, dressing changes, bandage applications, suture removals, and other first-aid procedures under physician supervision.
• Health Coaching: Provide proactive wellness and health coaching to a defined group of senior patients, following up via scheduled weekly calls.
• Compliance & Documentation: Maintain accurate documentation within the EHR system, ensuring strict compliance with OSHA safety standards.

Qualifications

• Patient-Centered Approach: High degree of emotional intelligence, integrity, and a customer-oriented communication style when working with seniors and their families.
• Adaptability & Initiative: Self-starter with strong critical reasoning and problem-solving skills.
• Technical Savvy: Proficient with Microsoft Office Suite and comfortable using analytical clinical software packages.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively across various seniorities, including clinic staff, providers, market leadership, and vendors.
• Travel: Willingness to travel occasionally for corporate or regional team meetings.

Experience

• Experience working with the Geriatric Population.
• Experience working in Value Based Care Space.

Additional Requirements

Willingness to travel occasionally for corporate or regional team meetings.

Benefits

• Paid Sick Leave (Medix provides paid sick leave according to state and local sick leave ordinances).
• Health Benefits / Dental / Vision (Medix offers 6 different health plans: 3 Major Medical Plans, 2 Fixed Indemnity Plans (Standard and Preferred), and 1 Minimum Essential Coverage (MEC) Plan. Eligibility for health benefits is based on verifying that an average of 30 hours per week during the first 4 weeks of the work assignment has been met. If you meet eligibility requirements and take action to enroll, you will be covered no earlier than 60 days into your assignment, depending on plan selection(s)).
• 401k (Eligible on the first 401k open enrollment date following 6 consecutive months on assignment. 401k Open Enrollment dates are 1/1, 4/1, 7/1, and 10/1).
• Short Term Disability Insurance.
• Term Life Insurance Plan.

* We will consider for employment all qualified Applicants, including those with criminal histories, in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable federal, state, and local laws, including the City of Los Angeles' Fair Chance Initiative for Hiring Ordinance (FCIHO), Los Angeles Fair Chance Ordinance for Employers (ULAC), The San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance (FCO), and the California Fair Chance Act (CFCA).


Medix Overview:

With over 20 years of experience connecting organizations with highly qualified professionals, Medix is a leading provider of workforce solutions for clients and candidates across the healthcare, scientific, technology, and government industries. Through our core purpose of positively impacting lives, we're dedicated to creating opportunities for job seekers at some of the nation's top companies. As an award-winning career partner, Medix is committed to helping talent find fulfilling and meaningful work because our mission is to help you achieve yours.

* As a job position within our Allied division, a successful completion of a background check may be required as a condition of employment. This requirement is directly related to essential job functions including but not limited to: providing direct patient care, accessing medical and confidential records, accessing and administering prescription medication or other drugs, working within a clinical setting, handling sharp instruments, conducting medical procedures, and working within departments that care for vulnerable populations, such as, minors, elderly and those with physical or mental disabilities. Due to these job duties, this position has a significant impact on the business operations and reputation, as well as the safety and well-being of individuals who may be cared for as part of the job position or who may interact with staff or clients.