Job Description

• Reporting to the Director of Nursing, this position is accountable for delivering nursing services, implementing resident’s plan of care and coordination of care in a community-based residential setting.
• The Licensed Practical Nurse functions as a caregiver for a specific resident population to achieve desired outcomes.
• This position focuses on expanding knowledge and skills, providing effective direct care as part of the interdisciplinary team to a variety of residents with complex behavioral and medical needs.
• This position directs and oversees the care provided by other caregivers through delegation, validation, evaluation, and coordination.
• This position effectively coordinates resident care/unit activities among nursing peers, physicians, and support services.

Responsibilities

As a Licensed Practical Nurse at SCO, you will be involved in delivering nursing practices according to the most up-to-date evidence-based research, nursing policies, and standards of care, to provide and ensure safe and excellent delivery of individualized resident care. A day in the life of a Licensed Practical Nurse at SCO includes Leadership, Assessment, Planning, Implementation and Evaluation

Responsibilities: Leadership

• Inspire a passion for clinical and service excellence. Support SCO's vision, mission, and shared values.
• Foresees challenges and opportunities; generates break through ideas through innovation.
• Creates a collaborative culture through teamwork, accountability, and adaptability to change.
• Takes the initiative to remove barriers and/or obstacles that will result in continuous improvement.
• Demonstrates confidence in self and others and motivates others to perform well.
• Approaches others in a tactful manner and treats others with respect and consideration
• Uses problem-solving and conflict resolution skills to foster effective work relationships with team members
• Follows through on commitments; accepts responsibility for personal actions.
• Remains informed about changes in the field of nursing and residential programs for youth
• Manage complexity; demonstrate compassion for others having trouble dealing effectively with change.

Responsibilities: Assessment

• Collects comprehensive data pertinent to the resident's health or the situation.
• Independently and systematic data collection focuses on physiologic, developmental, emotional, psychological, and cognitive status.
• Recognizes and reports changes in resident status and/or behavior.
• Identifies variables in resident/family education needs based on age, disease, and culturally specific learning differences.

Responsibilities: Planning

• Develops a person-centered plan of care that prescribes strategies and interventions to attain expected outcomes and is compliant with regulatory and quality guidelines established by SCO, NYS and federal regulators.
• Supports discharge planning process with members of relevant teams including acute and subacute care teams, managed care plan, case manager and internal teams including social work, psychology, behavioral and residential teams,
• Collaborates with Program Team including registered nurse, education, behavioral, social work, residential and others to support resident’s plan of care and optimal care management
• Formulates age and disease specific resident / family centered goals / outcomes based on assessment data.
• Develops and coordinates a plan of care which is resident / family focused, prioritized, and encompasses the continuum of care.

Responsibilities: Implementation

• Communicates, coordinates, and implements the plan of care.
• Provides ongoing communication with resident / family, nursing colleagues and other members of the health care team regarding resident's status, rendered care and treatment plans.
• Implements age and disease specific care in an organized and timely manner.
• Provides or coordinates the resident / family education as needed and ensures understanding.
• Performs according to established protocols in clinical situations, including communicating with appropriate people and documenting events.
• Provides nursing care and treatments that reflect the residents' needs, advocates appropriately, and demonstrates evidence-based nursing practice and compliance with standards.
• Performs continuous Point-of-Care electronic documentation of each individual resident's assessments, plan-of-care, interventions, and evaluation of rendered care.
• Medication administration utilizes the newest advancements in documentation technologies designed to ensure the safest delivery of medications to our residents.
• Multi-disciplinary discharging of residents for short stays or to permanent placement to ensure safe transition and continuum of care
• Communicate with families, residents, care team, pharmacy, physicians, direct care team, care management team and others as required to support high quality care.
• Creates and/or requests reports for purposes resident care and services.
• Collaborates effectively with other disciplines and professions, including social work, education, and behavioral teams as appropriate for optimal care resident youth.
• provide an effective nursing service that focuses on resident and employee safety. Participates in review of safety events and partners with Program team and Direct Care Staff
• Participates in development, implementation, and achievement of evidence-based practice standards.
• Participating in organizational-level committee work with clear performance improvement goals consistent with the mission, vision and philosophy of nursing and SCO.
• Collaborate with SCO Center for Professional Development to support staff training and growth
• Contributes to process improvement projects in support of resident care.
• Responds to residents and families as necessary; maintains privacy and confidentiality of all appropriate information and materials handled within SCO as well as the proper release of information.
• Complies with SCO and departmental policies regarding issues of employee, resident and environmental safety and follows appropriate reporting requirements.
• Adheres to SCO Organizational competencies and standards of behavior.
• Other duties, responsibilities and/or projects as assigned.

Responsibilities: Evaluation

• Evaluates progress toward attainment of outcomes.
• Utilizes critical thinking skills based on nursing knowledge to achieve desired resident outcomes.
• Initiates interventions related to residents’ change in condition and unexpected response to care.

Additional Responsibilities:

• Identifies ethical issues in the practice setting and brings them to the attention of other team members.
• Recognizes and responds to opportunities to enhance resident satisfaction.
• Must acquire and maintain competencies, certifications, and continuing education to meet any facility accreditation or individual licensing requirements.
• Adheres to American Nurses Association Code for Nurses with Interpretive Statements.
• Lifts a minimum of 35 lbs., pushes, and pulls a minimum of 10 lbs. and stands a minimum of 6 hours a day.
• Adheres to SCO Organizational and Managerial competencies and standards of behavior.
• Other duties and/or projects as assigned.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s prepared LPN from NYSED accredited school of nursing, or a Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE) accredited school.
• NY State Professional Licensed Practical Nurse License.
• AHA Basic Health Care Life Support
• The ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing resident needs, a strong sense of accountability for improving the lives of our residents and their caregivers, an exceptional focus on teamwork, dedication to ongoing education and the ability and passion to deliver the highest quality of care based on a strong sense of resident focus are all required. Education,
• Capacity to collaborate with diverse populations of team members and to gain consensus and achieve results.
• Must possess the ability to deal professionally and tactfully with colleagues, personnel, residents, family members, visitors, and the public.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Preferred:

• National Certification in the area of specialty preferred when eligible.
• Clinical experience in adolescent and/or behavioral health or with populations with developmental disability
• Must be committed to the principles of trauma-informed, trauma-responsive, and person-centered care.
• Able to react quickly and calmly in emergencies.
• Effective organizational, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Must possess digital proficiency including search engines, shared drives, and the MS Office suite. A connected, paperless environment must be willing to learn and use electronic medical records, state, and enterprise-wide platforms.
• Must be committed to anti-racist principles in resident care, team development and team management. Must be faithful to racial/ethnic equity, inclusion, and diversity.
• Must have a strong understanding of people-management skills including a sense of empathy, accountability, fairness, and consistency.
• Must have a strong understanding of the needs of vulnerable populations including youth and young adults with autism, developmental disabilities, communication impairments, and medical complexity.
• Must be fully supportive of and compliant with federal, state, local and enterprise requirements for health and safety including preventive health measures such as immunization and/or demonstrated proof of immunity for infectious diseases as required by New York State Public Health Law (PHL) and New York Codes, Rules and Regulations (NYCRR), Occupational, Safety and Health Agency (OSHA), Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP), the Healthcare Infection Control Practices Advisory Committee (HICPAC), and the Joint Commission concerning the use of immunizations in the health care setting

The intent of this job description is to provide a summary of the major duties and responsibilities of this position and shall not be considered as a detailed description of all the work requirements that may be inherent in the position.

SCO Nursing Services

Position Type: Full-time with Benefits

Standard Hours Per Week 40; days 7AM-3PM, evening 3PM-11PM

Weekend Work Every Other Weekend or Every Fourth Weekend; On-Call Not Required but available for extra compensation; Holiday Work 2 of 6 holidays