Licensed Practical Nurse - Chattanooga, TN

Spiras Health; Chattanooga (TN); On-site; USD 59,000 - 72,000; Full time

Job summary

Spiras Health is seeking a licensed practical nurse to join a Clinical Care Team delivering home-based and telehealth services across a defined patient population. You will travel to patients' homes, perform clinical assessments, educate patients, and support care plans.

The role emphasizes compassionate, patient-centered care, with collaboration alongside nurse practitioners and physicians, using EMR and mobile tools to document care and coordinate with families.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of LPN licensing program.
• Minimum 2+ years of experience as an LPN.
• Valid and active state nursing license.

Responsibilities

• Conducts detailed patient assessment and develops care plans.
• Educates patients and ensures adherence to treatment.
• Communicates with physicians and other health care workers.
• Document patient care accurately per policy.
• Travel to patients' homes and provide home-based care.

Skills

LPN licensing

2+ years experience

BLS CPR

EMR proficiency

Education

LPN licensing program completed

Tools

EMR platform

Mobile applications

Job description

• Location Spiras,Chattanooga, TN, 37422,United States
• Base Pay $65,000.00 / Year
• Employee Type FT Salary (Non-Exempt-OT)

Who We Are: Purposeful, Progressive, Dynamic

Spiras Health is all about bringing care to where people feel most comfortable—at home. We focus on helping individuals with chronic and complex conditions through personalized care plans that actually work for them. By blending hands-on care, telehealth, remote monitoring, and smart tech, we tackle health challenges while addressing things like social barriers that may be holding people back.

Our Clinical Care Teams work hand-in-hand with doctors, health plans, and other providers to improve quality of life, boost patient compliance, and cut down on unnecessary hospital trips. At Spiras, we promise accountability and integrity in everything we do, aiming to reduce fears, build confidence, and make healthcare a more positive experience for everyone involved.

How We Serve

This positioncallsfor ahigh performing clinician (Licensed Practical Nurse) who will become part of a Clinical Care Team, working in partnership with Nurse Practitioners. Together the team will manage the overall health of a defined population of patients in collaboration with the patient’s primary care and specialist physicians. You will serve your community, which includes daily traveling to patients’ homes based on risk levels, telephone calls, and texting. Meeting with patients in their homes affords you the opportunity to develop deep and rich relationships.

This individualwill understand and be comfortable with PC-based and mobile technology and have a deep commitment to exceptional patient care. A typical day may include home-based and telephonic patient clinical assessments, providing patient education, maintaining patient compliance to a treatment plan, connecting to community resources, conducting routine diagnostic tests, and charting assessments in Spiras systems. This is a personally and professionally rewarding position and it allows the colleague an opportunity to provide health care services at the top of their training. Each day includes seeing patients in the community

This individualwill understand and be comfortable with mobile technology and have a deep commitment to exceptional patient care. A typical day may include home patient clinical assessments, telephonic assessments of patients, providing patient education, maintaining patient compliance to a treatment plan, connecting with community resources, conducting routine diagnostic tests, and charting assessments in Spiras systems. This is a personally and professionally rewarding position and it allows the colleague an opportunity to provide health care services at the top of their training.

You will travel to other service areas to augment staffing as needed, with possible overnight stays in target areas. Each day is a mixture of working from a home office and seeing patients in the community. This results in some flexibility in work hours, with the constant focus being patient centered care.

Requirements

Duties and Responsibilities

• Conducts detailed patient assessment, including vital signs, monitors for changes in status, reports findings, contribute to and implements care plans, collaborates with Nurse Practitioner, provides patient education
• Helps patient accomplish treatment plan goals and identifies and seeks to resolve barriers to care
• Evaluates effects of treatment plan by observing, noting, and evaluating patient’s progress and recommending adjustments and modifications
• Communicates with physicians, nurses, social workers, family, caregivers, and other health care workers
• Recommends assistive equipment and outpatient or home health follow-up programs
• Accurate and timely documentation of patient care and services per policy
• Always adheres to hygiene and safety standards (sanitizing surfaces, equipment, hands, etc.)
• Fosters a supportive and compassionate environment to care for patients and their families
• Consistently adhere to documented policies, procedures, and standards
• Other duties as assigned
• You will be joining a market team. You may be asked to cover any patient within this market. However, your home territory will typically be a60 mileradius from your listed home address. Standard scheduling procedures have been designed to limit drive time and increase our ability to provide patient care.

Qualifications

• Successful completion of LPN licensing program
• Minimum 2+ years of experience as an LPN
• Excellent knowledge of nursing care methods and procedures
• Excellent knowledge of emergency care
• Valid and active state nursing license
• Reliable and insured personal vehicle
• Current BLS for Healthcare Provider CPR or CPR/AED for the Professional Rescuer certification
• Experience with cardiac or pulmonology specialties
• Experience with advance directives and palliative care
• Experience with clinically complex geriatric patients

Preferred Qualifications

• Bilingual (English / Spanish)

Skills Required:

• Strong and concise verbal and written communicator
• Able to rapidly identify and gather required information to assess and care for
• Comfortable working with patients that may have difficulty hearing, struggle
• with memory issues, or have a lower health care literacy level
• Desire to collaborate with others
• Ability to think quickly and provide information with confidence and clarity
• Ability to manage competing priorities, organize work efficiently, and meet deadlines
• Perseverance and self-management to achieve defined objectives
• Confident working with EMR platform and mobile applications
• Strong knowledge of chronic medical conditions are the keys to success in this role.

Physical & Other Requirements:

• This job operates in a remote professional environment free from noise and distraction. This role routinely uses standard office equipment such as computers and phones.
• 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.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and ability to adjust focus.
• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to talk and hear.
• This position requires the ability to occasionally lift office products and supplies, up to 20 pounds.

All qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, gender (including pregnancy, childbirth or medical conditions related to pregnancy or childbirth), gender identity or expression, religion, physical or mental disability, medical condition, legally protected genetic information, marital status, veteran status, or sexual orientation.