Licensed Practical/Vocational Nurse

Licensed Practical Nurse

Initiate and complete structured health screenings, deliver nursing interventions, promote patient safety, and reinforce education and preventive care.

Assist with ensuring smooth clinic flow and service continuity by completing preventive procedures, nursing tasks, chart reviews, panel scrubbing, daily huddles, and visit preparation.

Support efficient clinic operations: complete screening reminders, room patients, assist providers, manage room turnover, and place pre-visit calls to prepare patients.

Contribute to schedule management by reviewing upcoming appointments, identifying alternate care modalities, supporting consult tracking, and serving as backup for post-discharge calls.

Utilize clinic tools, participate in PACT meetings, and maintain continuity, coordination, and quality of care across the team.

Provide patient-focused support by confirming reason for visit, conducting pre-visit outreach, reinforcing instructions, and ensuring patients bring necessary logs and health information.

Perform pre-visit planning: review records, obtain missing documentation, update clinical changes, and prepare data to support efficient, high-quality appointments.

Support clinic flow: room patients, collect vital data, complete clinical reminders, assist with routine procedures, administer medications/immunizations, and keep exam rooms clean, safe, and stocked.

Aid clinical decision-making by reviewing medications/allergies, identifying urgent needs, initiating protocols or clinical pathways (per policy), and relaying key findings to the RN or provider.

Participate in health coaching, patient education, secure message management, consult tracking, PACT meetings, and follow-up with no-show patients for safety and continuity.

Participate in pre-planning, daily huddles, and team meetings.

Assist with immunizations, injections, procedures, prevention efforts, and serve as chaperone when appropriate.

Collaborate to achieve team access, quality, and patient experience goals, contribute to schedule review and visit modalities, and manage/reroute secure messages.

Maintain an organized, efficient clinical environment by ensuring rooms are stocked and clean, supplies and equipment are managed, and quality control checks are performed.

Support care planning and Whole Health by providing input, aiding shared decision-making, and promoting collaborative, patient-centered care.

Lower grades perform duties under closer supervision; higher grades carry out more complex tasks, require less oversight, provide technical expertise, and orient/train less experienced staff as needed. At advanced levels, LPN/LVNs exhibit sound judgment in complex or specialized care, perform as preceptors, and share knowledge to improve team practice and patient outcomes.

Monday-Friday, 8:00 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; hours are subject to change based on clinic needs.

Competitive salary and regular salary increases. When setting pay, a higher step rate of the appropriate grade may be determined after consideration of higher or unique qualifications or special needs of the VA (Above Minimum Rate of the Grade).

37-50 days of annual paid time offer per year (13-26 days of annual leave, 13 days of sick leave, 11 paid Federal holidays per year). Selected applicants may qualify for credit toward annual leave accrual, based on prior [work experience] or military service experience.

After 12 months of employment, up to 12 weeks of paid parental leave in connection with the birth, adoption, or foster care placement of a child.

After 60 days of employment, full time employees with a total family income below $144,000 may be eligible for a childcare subsidy up to 25% of total eligible childcare costs for eligible children up to the monthly maximum of $416.66

Traditional federal pension (5 years vesting) and federal 401K with up to 5% in contributions by VA

Federal health/vision/dental/term life/long-term care (many federal insurance programs can be carried into retirement)

Not available

This is not a virtual position.

Functional Statement #: 99267, 99266, 99265, 99264