Zone: Eastern Urban Zone
Location: Pleasant View Towers
Licensed Practical Nurse I
Mental Health & Addictions Program - 4SW
Temporary, Full-Time (until April 30, 2025, with possibility of extension)
05648RP1
Hours 75 (8 and 12 hours; Days, Evenings, Nights, Weekends, Rotating)
Salary CG-29 ($29.62 - $32.62 per hour which includes a negotiated wage adjustment. The following financial incentives may be applicable:
1. Long Term Care Bonus up to $5200
For more information on incentives please visit www.workinhealthnl.ca/incentives or email [email protected] )
Competition Number VAC0003326
Posted Date 2024-11-01
Closing Date 2024-11-08
Demands, duties, qualifications
Job Summary
Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) are valuable members of the interdisciplinary health care team. LPNs provide direct nursing care to predictable and unpredictable clients/patients/residents. The LPN I in the Mental Health & Addictions Program working within their individual scope of practice is responsible for health assessment, medication administration, nursing care planning, disease management, wound care, end of life care and may provide mentoring and direction to students and other staff.
Job Demands
By applying for this job, you acknowledge an understanding that regular requirements and demands of this job include (but are not limited to):
Regularly requires physical exertion and handling, moving, pushing, or pulling objects between 10 - 15 lbs and occasionally required to support, lift, or move patients/objects up to 30 lbs.
Regularly required to work in awkward cramped positions (bending/kneeling/stretching) and constantly standing and moving about.
Regularly pushes and pulls objects using light to medium forces and stands and walks.
Regularly requires visual concentration to give medications, read orders/referrals, patients' charts/document, observe and treat patients combined with time pressures and deadlines.
Job Qualifications
Successful completion of an approved Licensed Practical Nursing program.
Current licensure with the College of Licensed Practical Nurses of Newfoundland and Labrador (CLPNNL).
Current BLS certification is required.
Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.
Demonstrated ability to maintain effective working relationships.
Demonstrated initiative and the ability to work independently.
A satisfactory record of work performance is required.
Employees, to review your attendance record please refer to your employee portal on the Intranet for details. The attendance record is only available to employees who are currently in positions that accumulate sick time.