Nurse Leadership Role (LPN)

Garden Healthcare; Lewistown (Mifflin County); On-site; USD 52,000 - 68,000; Full time

Job summary

Greenwood Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is seeking a compassionate LPN Nurse Leader to work with the DON, supporting nursing department functions in a rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility.

The role emphasizes ensuring regulatory compliance, infection prevention leadership, and collaboration with administration to deliver high-quality resident care.

Qualifications

• Requires LPN leadership experience and a strong infection prevention background.
• Must maintain regulatory compliance and quality standards.
• Experience with long-term care settings preferred.

Responsibilities

• Ensure nursing staff comply with standards, practices and regulatory requirements for resident care.
• Support development and implementation of nursing department budgets with facility administration.
• Implement compliance and quality improvement policies, programs and procedures.
• Oversee surveillance, rounding, analysis, interpretation and reporting of healthcare-associated infections.
• Develop infection prevention policies meeting state, federal, and accrediting standards.
• Lead infection prevention initiatives and serve as a resource and educator for change.

Skills

LPN leadership

Infection control

Regulatory compliance

Education

PA LPN license

Associate degree in Nursing

Job description

New Rates!!

Afternoons and Nights open!

Greenwood Center for Rehabilitation and Nursing is now seeking a compassionate and professional LPN NURSE LEADER to work in coordination with the DON to support the nursing department functions of our rehabilitation and skilled nursing facility. As a leader, you can take advantage of a unique opportunity to help us reach our goal of becoming a premier facility

RESPONSIBILITIES OF THE NURSE LEADER:

• Ensure that all nursing personnel in our facility comply with established standards, practices, and regulatory requirements for the highest quality of resident care

• Support the development and implementation of nursing department budgets in coordination with the facility administration.

• Implementing compliance and quality improvement policies, programs and procedures

• Is responsible for surveillance, rounding, analyzing, interpreting and the reporting of healthcare-associated infections

• Supports the development of evidence-based organizational infection prevention policies/standards that meet state, federal, regulatory and accrediting agencies standard

• Leads in infection prevention and serves as a resource, educator, researcher and proponent of change in order to influence infection prevention improvement to provide quality health care within the organization

REQUIREMENTS OF NURSE LEADER:

• Associate degree in Nursing or higher from an accredited school of nursing.

• Must have a valid PA LPN license

• Minimum 3 years’ experience in Long Term Care experience may be considered