LPN

Location

Grand Junction, CO | United States

Job description

Eligible for Sign on Bonus and Generous Weekly Performance Incentive!

Seeking a strong and compassionate LPN to join our amazing team! Help us care for clients in our community and enjoy a flexible schedule and weekly performance incentive bonuses for full-time candidates! This position provides the option for a 4- or 5-day work week!

As part of a vibrant team, delivers aid, verbal cueing, reminding, and direct hands-on care for the elderly, convalescents, or persons with disabilities within the scope of practice to SummitWest Care clients.

Required Education and Experience

• Graduate of an approved School of Nursing
• Currently licensed and in good standing in the State of Colorado
• Previous home care experience a plus!
• Ability to read, write, and present information one-on-one and to small groups in English is required.

Work Environment

The following work environment characteristics represent those an employee typically encounters while performing the essential functions of this position.

This job operates 60% of the time indoors; 40% of the time outdoors. Occasional exposure to physically and/or verbally aggressive clients. Noise level is generally moderate. Job tasks involve exposure to blood, body fluids, and/or tissue.

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.

While performing the duties of this job, the employee will stand 50% of the time, sit 10% of the time, and walk 40% of the time. The employee frequently is required to climb, balance, stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and reach with arms.

The employee must be able to grasp, pinch, and feel with hands and fingers and be able to lift, carry, push, pull, or otherwise move objects up to 50 lbs. frequently and up to 100 lbs. occasionally. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus. Specific hearing abilities required by this job include ability to perceive the nature of sounds at normal speaking levels with or without correction. Must be able to receive detailed information through oral communication, and to make the discriminations in sound.

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

This is a full-time position typically Monday through Friday. Occasional evening and weekend work may be required as part of the on-call rotation.

Job Type: Full-time

Salary: $22.00 - $25.00 per hour

Benefits:

• 401(k)
• Dental insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Health insurance
• Paid time off
• Referral program
• Vision insurance

Medical specialties:

• Home Health

Supplemental schedule:

• Holidays
• On call

Weekly schedule:

• Monday to Friday
• Weekend availability

License/Certification:

• LVN (Preferred)
• LPN (Preferred)
• IV Certification (Preferred)

Who We Are:

SummitWest Care was developed as a non-profit, free-standing agency in 2002. Our community recognized the need for providing quality care in the home. SummitWest Care was designed to serve people in need of care in their home. Since our inception, SummitWest Care has served several thousand clients and families in Mesa County and we have had the support and donations from organizations such as St. Mary's Hospital, Rocky Mountain Health Plans and Hilltop. Because of our strong staff expertise and leadership and the profound belief that people deserve to heal at home, we have received several awards for quality and excellence in home health care service. Our clinicians have a long history of collaboration with area physicians to help their clients get well after premature birth, complicated orthopedic surgeries and chronic illnesses. We value education and staying on the cutting edge of procedures and techniques to support our clinicians to be aware and responsive to health care needs.

AAP/EEO Statement

SummitWest Care provides equal employment opportunities to all employees and applicants for employment and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any type without regard to race, color, religion, age, sex, national origin, disability status, genetics, protected veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local laws.

This policy applies to all terms and conditions of employment, including recruiting, hiring, placement, promotion, termination, layoff, recall, transfer, leaves of absence, compensation, and training.

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Salary

$22 - $25 per hour