• Assists the YCCS RN with filling prescriber's orders, administering medications, and monitoring vital signs.
• Works with the YCCS Direct Service Workers in ensuring an environment that promotes safety, recovery, and treatment.
• Contributes to the assessment, treatment plan, individualized crisis planning, discharge planning and care coordination for each individual.
• Implements treatment plans using recovery-oriented, motivational interviewing, harm reduction, trauma-informed, culturally competent, and strengths-based rehabilitation
  approaches to help youth successfully and safely transition to home or an alternate optimal
  setting.
• Provides nursing care, teaching, and assistance with activities of daily living according to each client's plan.
• Takes and documents individual's vital signs, including temperature, pulse, respirations, and blood pressure per prescriber's orders. May include pulse oximetry.
• Uses crisis intervention techniques when necessary. Accesses on-call back up when needed.
• Completes incident documentation as needed.
• Performs other duties as required.

Why Vinfen? We are committed to you! We offer great training, great benefits, career growth and job security!

Our comprehensive and generous benefits package includes:

• A fully funded, employer-sponsored retirement plan that requires no employee contribution as well as an employee-funded 403(b) plan
• First-rate Medical, Dental and Vision plans that are open all employees scheduled to work 30 hours per week or more. Plus, we offer a generous employer contribution toward the cost of medical insurance!
• Employer-paid Life, Accidental Death & Dismemberment and Long-Term Disability Insurance (no cost to you!)
• Employer-paid Short-Term Disability Insurance along with the option to purchase additional, voluntary, Short-Term disability insurance
• Flexible Spending Reimbursement Accounts (Health and Dependent care)
• Voluntary Term, Whole Life, Accident and Critical Care Insurance
• Generous paid time off (Employees scheduled to work 20 hours or more per week):
• 15 days of Vacation per year
• 11 Paid Holidays
• 10 Sick Days per year
• 3 Personal Days per year
• Educational Assistance and Remission Programs
• $500 Employee Referral Bonus with no annual cap!
• Other generous benefits including discounted YMCA memberships, access to discounted movie tickets and more!

About Us:

Established in 1977, Vinfen is a nonprofit, health and human services organization and a leading provider of community-based services to individuals with mental health conditions, intellectual and developmental disabilities, brain injuries, and behavioral health challenges. Our services and advocacy promote the recovery, resiliency, habilitation, and self-determination of the people we serve. Vinfen's 3,500 dedicated employees are experienced, highly-trained professionals who provide a full range of supportive living, health, educational, and clinical services in over 550 sites throughout Massachusetts and Connecticut. For more information about Vinfen, please visit www.vinfen.org/careers.

My Job. My Community. My Vinfen.

Vinfen is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

• A high school diploma or GED is required; Completion of an accredited LPN program required.
• Licensed as a Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) in the state of Massachusetts required.
• Three to five years of supervised practical nursing experience preferred, including internships, in a clinical or rehabilitation setting with persons with psychiatric conditions.
• Experience working with people with psychiatric disabilities, medical illnesses, and other co-occurring disorders strongly preferred.
• Experience working with youth and families using evidenced based practices in a community
  mental health and/or substance use clinic, residential, acute or sub-acute or similar setting.
• Ability to work independently as well as part of a multi-disciplinary team.
• Comfortable using a computer and experienced working in an electronic health record,
  proficient in communicating effectively, both written and verbally, with varying audiences
• Ability to mentor and coach staff at all levels.
• Must be able to successfully pass a multistate CORI, SORI, reference check, employment verification, education and credentialing background check