Licensed Practical Nurse

Job Description

Job Description

Overview

Join a Team That Changes Lives

For more than 170 years, Elwyn has been leading the way in supporting children, teens, and adults with autism, intellectual and developmental disabilities, and behavioral health challenges. As a mission-driven nonprofit, we’re here to create real change – helping people lead meaningful, fulfilling lives.

Now, we’re looking for passionate team members to join us. Here, your work will change lives – including your own. You’ll make an impact every day, find purpose in what you do, and grow in a career that truly matters.

At Elwyn, we take care of you while you care for others. We offer:

• Generous Paid Time Off
• Comprehensive Medical/Dental/Vision Benefit Packages
• Earned Wage Access/On-Demand Pay
• Paid On-the-Job Training
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Career Advancement Opportunities and Growth
• Flexible Schedules
• Retirement Savings Plan

Join us and be a part of something bigger. Apply today.

Responsibilities

Elwyn' s Nursing services are provided for those individuals who live either in Elwyn's residential programs, including Media Campus, or in Community Residential Services in Delaware, Chester and Philadelphia counties. The nursing team is led by a Health Care Coordinator who works in conjunction with the resident's Primary Care Physician and an interdisciplinary team to ensure that the residents are living a healthy life. If necessary, 24-hour nursing care can be provided, and decreasing levels of service are available to residents who function more independently. Nursing services at Elwyn include:

• Medical case management
• Medication administration
• Routine and emergency care
• Nursing care planning and assessments
• Treatment as ordered by the Primary Care Physician

PRIMARY FUNCTION - As a member of interdisciplinary team, the nurse provides normalized, empathetic, therapeutic and preventative nursing care to clients in an assigned interdisciplinary setting at Elwyn within the scope of the Pennsylvania Practical Nurse Law and in accordance with Pennsylvania DPW Department of Health's standards, IOC, and Elwyn's policies and procedures. Performs the following duties which are within your ability, training, license to perform.

IMMEDIATE SUPERVISOR - The Licensed Practical Nurse reports clinically to: the Department of Nursing, Health Care Manager; Administratively to Assigned Residential Unit, Residential Unit Manager.

CONTACTS - Elwyn personnel, Medical/Dental staff, clients, families, agency staff, visitors, and community agencies.

EDUCATION - Licensed to practice as LPN in Pennsylvania.

EXPERIENCE -Minimum of one year clinical experience in an acute care hospital, current CPR, completion of physical assessment course, history of good interpersonal skills, experience in developmental disabilities preferred.

WORKING CONDITIONS - Ability to work in variety of environments and settings, flexible hours. Exposed to body wastes, discharges, odors and noises.

HAZARDS: Occasional exposure to hazards which may cause serious illness or injury (instruments, equipment, body waste, and infectious diseases).