Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)

Bellefaire JCB is among the nation’s largest, most experienced child service agencies providing a variety of mental health, substance abuse, education, and prevention services. Bellefaire JCB helps more than 43,000 youth and their families yearly achieve resiliency, dignity and self-sufficiency through its more than 25 programs, including the Intensive Treatment Program and the Monarch Boarding Academy.

Our Intensive Treatment Program is a co-ed therapeutic residential treatment program for youth, ages 8 through 17, with significant mental health and psychiatric needs. The program provides a safe, secure home-like setting where their path toward healing can begin. The Intensive Treatment Program specializes in dialectical behavior therapy (DBT)—a cognitive behavioral treatment approach that emphasizes the development of four skill sets: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance.

Our Monarch Boarding Academy is a co-ed therapeutic residential treatment program for individuals with Autism ages 8 through 20. The program focuses on developing communication and life skills so residents can learn how to function better – allowing them to return home or to a less-restrictive setting. Residents live in secure, home-like cottages based on peer relationship skill sets.

Schedule:
FT: (40 hours/week) 10 hour shifts/EOW
PT: (20 hours/week) EOW

Essential Requirements:

• Provide holistic nursing care to clients in the behavioral health and autism residential treatment services Develop therapeutic relationships with residential clients
• Actively work to achieve clients’ trust
• Utilize therapeutic verbal and non-verbal techniques
• Show ability to communicate in a clear and concise manner, while demonstrating ability to work well with others and maintaining professionalism
• Adapt to changing situations and/or work assignments
• Demonstrate willingness to rotate to both areas of residential treatment services
• Utilize knowledge of medications (psychotropic and other) in the treatment process and educates clients and residential staff regarding medications and health care needs
• Collaborate with the interdisciplinary team in the evaluation of the client’s treatment process.

Responsibilities Include:

• Assist Providers, Registered Nurses and other health care professionals with examinations, treatments, and procedures.
• Obtain patient health history, laboratory specimens, and vital signs within your scope of practice.
• Implement provider orders; administers medication and documents.
• Submit regular reports to the provider as requested.
• Consult with residential staff as needed.
• Collect objective and subjective client data; reports symptoms, reactions, treatments, and changes in client's conditions to the registered nurse or provider; and documents.
• Coordinate client transfers to outside health care providers or medical facilities.
• Participate in training orientation of new employees of the residential health clinic.
• Maintain proper use and storage of all medical supplies, equipment, etc.
• Perform other related duties related to the delivery of residential treatment services as assigned.

Life at Bellefaire:  We value our employees and their commitment to our mission and offer competitive total rewards (benefits and compensation) options to our valued employees and their families, including domestic partners. Our rich options include:

• Dental, vision and medical insurance
• Defined benefit pension plan
• 403(b) plan
• Life insurance
• Paid long-term disability
• Generous paid time off and paid agency holidays

Other perks of working with us include:

• A friendly and appreciated staff
• Working with a team committed to the well-being of others
• A beautiful campus
• Career growth/numerous free CEU opportunities
• Staff recognition program
• A caring environment to work in!

Bellefaire JCB is an equal opportunity employer, and hires its employees without consideration to race, religion, creed, color, national origin, age, gender, sexual orientation, marital status, veteran status or disability or any other status protected by federal, state or local law.

Bellefaire JCB is a partner agency of the Wingspan Care Group, a non-profit administrative service organization providing a united, community-based network of services so member agencies can focus on mission-related goals and operate in a more cost-effective and efficient manner.