LPN FT Nights 6:45 pm- 7 am- Float

SEM Haven; Milford, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

Job summary

SEM Haven in Ohio is seeking a Charge Nurse to coordinate elder care within a home-like setting, promoting dignity, independence and person-centered daily life. You will supervise care delivery, collaborate with the team, families and volunteers, and ensure compliance with policies and regulations.

This role emphasizes compassionate leadership, teamwork and adaptability to meet residents' needs, while maintaining a safe, respectful environment and fostering elder choice in daily activities.

Qualifications

• Graduate of an accredited school of nursing.
• Long-term care experience preferred.
• Freedom from illegal use of drugs in the workplace is essential.
• Commitment to elder-centered care.

Responsibilities

• Provide nursing care to elders according to facility policies and procedures.
• Promote elder-centered care and team-based management; participate in daily life activities of assigned households.
• Collaborate with elders, families, coworkers and volunteers to create a positive environment.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Patience

Communication skills

Flexibility

Education

Registered Nurse (RN)

Job description

Community Name: SEM Haven The Charge Nurse works cooperatively and respectfully with elders, coworkers, families, visitors and volunteers to create a positive and pleasant environment in the home. He or she delivers nursing care to elders according to facility policies and procedures, quality improvement guidelines and local, state and federal regulations. The Charge Nurse actively promotes the elder’s opportunities for engaging in normal life pursuits and improving and/or maintaining functioning levels. The Charge Nurse is a participant in elder-centered care and team based management and is involved in daily life activities in his or her assigned household(s). The above paragraph is a technical description of your job that outlines some of the functions that make your position necessary. The focus of SEM Haven is to be a elder-centered organization based on elder choice. SEM Haven is a family, which includes elders and staff, as well as elder families and staff families. The final goal is to provide support for each of its members. Your role as a staff member is to provide the elders of SEM Haven with the support, friendship, and most importantly, kindness, so they may live as independently as they wish to in their homes. The most important function of your position is that you treat everyone you come into contact with as a person deserving respect. No person is any more or less important than any other and all should be treated in this manner. As a member of a family team you have the additional responsibility to perform tasks as necessary to maintain life on the household. These tasks will be within your knowledge and training i.e. assist with food preparation/serving; picking up clutter, removing trash, cleaning spills; transporting elders; attending household meetings/learning circles and fulfilling simple requests for elders.

Job Functions

Every effort has been made to identify the essential functions of this position. However, it in no way states or implies that these are the only duties you will be required to perform. The omission of specific statements of duties does not exclude them from the position if the work is similar, related, or is an essential function of the position.

Essential Physical Demands of the Job

Success on your job requires the following skills:

• Ability to implement and evaluate the effectiveness of elder care programs Patience, listening skills, verbal and non-verbal communication skills
• Interpersonal skills
• Respect for all people - elders, co-workers, family members, doctors, volunteers, and anyone who visits our home
• Respect for possessions – keeping living and work areas clean, orderly and presentable at all times as if company is on the way
• Flexibility – willingness to modify job duties for the overall good of the home and our elders

• MOBILITY - Able to move freely about
• LIFTING - Regularly (up to 25 lbs.)
• CLIMBING/BALANCING - Occasionally
• STOOPING/BENDING - Regularly
• PUSHING - Occasionally (up to 25 lbs.)
• STANDING/SITTING - Regularly
• REACHING - Regularly
• SPEAKING - Must be able to speak, read & write the English language in an understandable manner.
• VISION & HEARING - Must be able to see and hear or use prosthetics that will enable these senses to function adequately to ensure that the requirements of position can be fully met.

Minimum Qualification Standards

• Education/Experience: Graduate of an accredited school of nursing
• previous long-term care experience preferred.
• Freedom from illegal use of drugs and freedom from use and effects of use of drugs and alcohol in the workplace is essential.

We're an equal opportunity employer. All applicants will be considered for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.

SEM Haven is a non-profit ministry providing nursing and residential care for older adults of varying economic, ethnic, and religious backgrounds. We strive to preserve and promote human dignity, self-determination, individual freedom and accustomed lifestyle. Our vision is for SEM Haven to be a home where companionship and caring relationships thrive through empowerment and personal choice.