Job Details
Pivot Home Health is a new home health agency that is beginning to build a talented, compassionate and tenacious clinical team to provide skilled nursing services to homebound patients in the Denver Metro Area. We are a locally owned agency with plans for quick, responsible growth, and ready to start hiring immediately.
Our mission to deliver the highest quality of care to our clients revolves around a three-pronged, patient-centered philosophy of Coordination of Care, Dynamic Execution of the Plan of Care, and Compassionate and Highly Skilled Nursing Practices. We aim to be a partner to our patients, their primary care physician, and their families to ensure that being homebound still allows for the highest quality of living possible.
We believe by simply treating employees well and empowering them to excel at their nursing duties, we can develop a culture of hard work, outstanding results and lots of fun. We offer full health, dental and vision benefits immediately upon hire and option to opt-in to a 401k and profit sharing plan.
If you are interested in learning more, we'd love to talk to you and see if you're a good fit for us and we're a good fit for you.
JOB Description
Job Title:
Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN)
Reports To:
Director of Clinical Services
Position Summary: The Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) will plan and implement specific treatment programs for individual clients according to the principles and practices of nursing and according to the orders coordinated with a licensed physician.
Essential Duties and Responsibilities: To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform the following satisfactorily; other duties may be assigned. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Furnish services in accordance with agency policies
- Assist the physician, intermediate care provider and registered nurse perform specialized procedures
- Prepare equipment and materials for treatments, observing aseptic technique as required
- Assist the consumer in learning appropriate self-care techniques
- Observe, records and reports to physician and/or supervisor, client s reaction to treatment, client s progress and any changes in client s condition
- Assist client and family with community resources needed to adjust to physical, mental and social limitations
- Coordinate other service team members, both in formal and informal care conferences, to assure sufficient flow of information to support care of client
- Inform client, family and physician verbally and in writing as needed regarding plan of care, progress, or changes and pending discharge
- Provide accurate and timely documentation of care in accordance with agency policy and pay source requirements
- Meet regulatory agency and/or pay source requirements regarding patient care
- Effectively manage a caseload as established by agency
- Participate, as requested, in orientation of new staff, in-service education, continuing education, utilization review and QI/QA programs.
- Use agency approved software to enter evaluations and visit documentation
Abilities, Skills and Knowledge: To perform the job successfully, an individual should demonstrate the following.
- Ability to read, analyze, and interpret common scientific and technical journals, professional journals, and legal documents.
- Ability to read and interpret physicians orders and notes from other caregivers as well as respond to them verbally and in writing.
- Ability to effectively present information to patients and employees and community.
- Ability to respond effectively to the most sensitive inquiries or complaints.
- Ability to define problems, collect data, establish facts, and draw valid conclusions.
- Ability to deal with several abstract and concrete variables. Ability to improvise in a home setting.
- Ability to send/receive emails and use the internet for research and informational purposes.
- Ability to use computer for communication and documentation purposes.
- Ability to use independent judgment to manage and impart confidential information
- Skill to attend to multiple tasks at once which are time sensitive
- Thorough knowledge of home health care practice, communication skills, and case management.
- Basic knowledge of Windows operating system and ability to advance computer skills as required
- Ability to establish and maintain effective working relationships with fellow employees, the public, and supervisors
Qualifications:
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each essential duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the knowledge, skill, and/or ability required. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
Education/Experience:
Associate's degree or equivalent from two-year college or technical school; or six months to one year related experience and/or training; or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Language Ability:
Read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence and memos. Write simple correspondence. Effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients and other employees.
Mathematical Ability:
Add, subtract, multiply and divide in all units of measure, using whole numbers, common fractions and decimals. Compute rate, ratio and percent, and draw and interpret bar graphs.
Reasoning Ability:
Solve practical problems and deal with a variety of concrete variables in situations where only limited standardization exists. Interpret a variety of instructions furnished in written, oral, diagram, or schedule form.
Computer Skills:
KanTime EMR and WorldView document management experience desired.
Certificates and Licenses:
Licensed in Colorado as a Practical Nurse without stipulations.
Supervisory Responsibilities: No Supervisory Responsibility
Work Environment: The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The employee is frequently exposed to outside weather conditions.
- The work environment is highly variable, as care is provided in private homes.
- Lighting, acoustics, air quality, temperature and environmental hazards are not predictable.
- The employee is occasionally exposed to wet and/or humid conditions, household pets/animals, fumes or airborne particles, and toxic or caustic chemicals.
- The noise level in the office work environment is usually moderate
Physical Demands: The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- Ability to regularly sit, stand, stoop, bend, kneel, walk, balance, crouch, crawl, push, pull, reach with hands and arms and talk and hear.
- Ability to frequently use hands to finger, handle, or feel.
- Ability to occasionally climb and use sense of smell.
- Ability to frequently lift and/or move up to 15 pounds and occasionally lift and/or move 100 pounds
- Ability to perform the anticipated level of physical assist required to provide safe client care. If the anticipated level of assist is greater than that which the employee can safely provide, the supervisor is to be notified immediately.
- Ability to use close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception
- Ability to adjust focus
The above job description is not intended to be an all-inclusive list of duties and standards of the position. Incumbents will follow any other instructions, and perform any other related duties, as assigned by their supervisor.
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