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Living Legends Health LPN Unit Manager in Dunkirk, New York

Description

This full-time LPN Unit Manager position offers a starting rate of $31.00 per hour and a sign-on bonus of up to $7,500. The shift is from 7 AM to 3:30 PM, Monday through Friday. The benefits include weekly paychecks, tuition assistance, shift differentials, referral bonuses, flexible schedules, no-frills options with higher wages, peer mentorship, and generous paid time off.

Job Description:

An LPN Unit Manager provides leadership, guidance, supervision, and evaluation of nursing staff. They provide information to the Director of Nursing regarding the performance of nursing staff and participate in the evaluation process of nursing staff.

Responsibilities:

  • Visit each resident on the unit, assess needs, and assign nursing staff to care for residents during shifts or tours of duty.

  • Receive physician’s orders in resident care, make rounds with physicians, and record the rounds in residents’ charts.

  • Distribute medications and chart distribution of medications in residents’ charts according to established standards and regulations.

  • Participate with the interdisciplinary team in developing and updating Resident Assessment and Comprehensive Care Plan as the resident’s conditions change, including attendance at treatment team meetings as requested.

  • Assist with charting all clinical and nursing care provided to residents, ensuring charting is accurate, done promptly, and meets established standards and regulations.

  • Administer medications and treatment as needed, and chart the administrations of such injections.

  • Provide consultation, information, and support to residents and their families.

  • Ensure information is transferred regarding resident care and condition during shift changes.

  • Participate in servicing, staff development programs, and staff meetings.

  • Provide emergency care as appropriate, under physician orders and advance directives.

  • Manage and implement the resident care plan, documenting the resident’s progress and changes in condition.

  • Provide care per Federal, State, and Local Regulations.

  • Perform other duties as assigned to ensure the quality of comprehensive nursing care and other general care to residents.

    ABOUT US:

    VestraCare is a portfolio of five healthcare facilities in New York state, including Brookhaven Health Care Facility in East Patchogue; Chautauqua Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Dunkirk; Roscoe Rehabilitation and Nursing Center in Roscoe; Sunset Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Boonville; and Susquehanna Nursing and Rehabilitation Center in Johnson City. We’re proud to be a family of high-quality healthcare providers that also includes Absolut Care, Taconic Health Care, and The McGuire Group.

Equal Opportunity Employer/Protected Veterans/Individuals with Disabilities

The contractor will not discharge or in any other manner discriminate against employees or applicants because they have inquired about, discussed, or disclosed their own pay or the pay of another employee or applicant. However, employees who have access to the compensation information of other employees or applicants as a part of their essential job functions cannot disclose the pay of other employees or applicants to individuals who do not otherwise have access to compensation information, unless the disclosure is (a) in response to a formal complaint or charge, (b) in furtherance of an investigation, proceeding, hearing, or action, including an investigation conducted by the employer, or (c) consistent with the contractor’s legal duty to furnish information. 41 CFR 60-1.35(c)

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