Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN) Manager, Arleta

POSITION TITLE:      Licensed Vocational Nursing (LVN) Manager

REPORTS TO:            Director of Recuperative Care

LOCATION:              Corporate, Los Angeles

CLASSIFICATION:       Exempt

SALARY: $80,000.00 - $85,000.00 (Depending on Experience)

• Work Shift: Sunday - Thursday, 9:00AM-5:30PM; With the flexibility to meet the needs of the nursing department and facility.
• All positions require candidates to successfully pass a background check, LIVE scan and TB Test
• Position to be filled as soon as possible

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Licensed Vocational Nursing Manager

As a Licensed Vocational Nursing Manager (LVN Manager), you would be someone who has the passion and ability to perform all essential nursing management functions with an emphasis on quality of guest care, the development of licensed staff members, and oversight of all day-to-day clinical and administrative activities for NHF Recuperative Care. You will be challenged with driving our mission to both humanize and localize care for those experiencing homelessness to improve lives.

Responsibilities and Initiatives

To help NHF meet its growth goals, the LVN Manager will:

• Utilizing your work experience and leadership skills; you will train, develop, and manage LVN/Medical Coordinator staff to ensure compliance with all applicable state, federal laws and/ regulations and company’s best practices.
• In this key role, you will collaborate with other managers and Nurse Practitioner Administrative to discuss concerns, recommendations, and strategic planning to guide NHF Recuperative Care medical disciplines, when needed.
• You will have the autonomy to develop and implement health-related programming to enhance guest satisfaction, ensuring continuity and consistency in delivery and quality of services in accordance with treatment plans by providing excellent care, compassion, dignity, and respect.
• As the leader of the nursing program, you will provide oversight and administration of required documentation and records including responding to medical records audits. Track guest information on existing database specific to progress and plan of care.
• Ensure Medical coordinators and assistant records documentation daily via the CRM database.
• Delegate and manage a small/limited amount of caseload to support their department.
• Flexibility to meet the on-call requirement to appropriately triage issues and provide solutions with the nursing department.
• Participate in case conferencing team meetings, daily board review, and all required staff meetings and trainings. Collaborate with Social Services department to ensure bed board application reflects the accurate census cap.
• Ensure departmental team conduct and complete guest TB screenings and cough logs as applicable.
• Ensure team members adhere to administrative hours to complete all required documentation.
• Project and model a positive professional image and adhere to organizational dress code.
• Establish, cultivate, and foster an environment necessary for continuous learning, professional growth, and collaborative.
• Maintain, manage, and review department budget with Director.
• Manage staff time and attendance, including PTO Request, department coverage, performance management duties, weekly, bi-monthly and/monthly one-on-one supervision via culture amp.
• Work as part of interdisciplinary team to triage concerns and develop resolutions to meet the guest care.
• Review and process timecards, ensuring compliance with all CA employment laws regarding wage payments.
• Must be flexible to schedule changes to meet the needs of the facility.
• Complete other responsibilities and duties as needed to continue to support of the department and program, notwithstanding your primary role.
• Always follow NHF policies and procedures.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree preferred, not required.
• Licensed Vocational Nurse licensed to practice in California and in good standing required for the position.
• Current American Heart Association BLS (CPR/First Aid/AED) required.
• Minimum 3 years of progressive Management experience. Applicants who have demonstrated strong clinical leadership in other positions will also be considered.
• Must be organized, detail oriented, can handle confidential information, and to interface effectively with all levels of management.
• Excellent verbal/written communication skills required.
• Must have the ability to multi-task, problem solve, meet deadlines, and follow through on work assignments in a fast-paced environment.
• Bi-lingual Spanish preferred.
• TB testing required.
• Fingerprint live scan background required.
• Reliable transportation.
• Ability to communicate effectively with all levels of staff, guests, and visitors.
• Ability to travel regionally to multiple Recuperative Care sites, if applicable.

Physical Requirements

The duties as described will require frequent standing and walking, as well as extended sitting. The employee will frequently bend/stoop, squat, reach above the shoulders, twist, and turn, kneel, and push/pull. The employee will frequently be required to lift/pull/push/move up to 50 pounds. Must utilize conversational speech for effective verbal communication. Noise level is high in some guest care areas.  Must be able to hear equipment alarms, overhead pages, and direct verbal communication. Must be able to communicate through emails, messages, and teleconference independently.

Benefits

PROGRAMS

National Health Foundation is addressing the social determinants of health using several research-proven strategies. We are targeting Food Access, with an emphasis on increasing the availability of health and fresh foods in under-resourced communities, Housing, with a focus on providing shelter and care for individuals who have been released from the hospital, the Built Environment, prioritizing the removal of the barriers to health in the Historic South Los Angeles community, and Education, with a focus on risk prevention and support for pregnant and parenting teens to complete their education. For further details on the programs, please visit our site at: http://nationalhealthfoundation.org