Caritas Family Solutions
Location
Belleville, Illinois
Salary
$36 / HOUR
The Children's Residential LPN supports the physical, emotional, and medical wellbeing of youth in residential programs by ensuring timely and appropriate healthcare. They respond to healthcare needs, assist with medical appointments, and ensure compliance with regulations.
Candidates must be a Licensed LPN in the State of Illinois with a minimum of 1 year of experience serving youth. The role requires a commitment to trauma-informed care and the ability to train staff on healthcare needs.
Welcome to your opportunity to change the world! If you have a servant’s heart and want to be part of something truly special, then Caritas Family Solutions needs you. We have been serving the people of Illinois since 1947 and have over 500 committed and mission-driven team members. At Caritas, we do not hire people for jobs, we find new team members for rewarding and life-changing careers that make the world better.
If you are kind, patient, and ready to make a difference, we would love to meet you!
Generous Paid Time Off Paid training Health Insurance Dental and Vision Life insurance 403(b) with company contribution 5% Tuition reimbursement We know great candidates bring a wide range of experience. If you believe you can be successful in this role, we encourage you to apply — even if you don’t meet every qualification listed.
The Children’s Residential Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) supports the physical, emotional, and medical wellbeing of each youth in the residential programs of the agency, by ensuring timely and appropriate health care. The LPN focuses on promotion of health through advocacy and education to youth on healthy lifestyle options and treatment compliance. The LPN works in a care-team environment with other residential staff utilizing in-depth consideration of trauma informed care to ensure youth successfully transition through treatment towards a lower-level of care.
EDUCATION and/or EXPERIENCE REQUIRED/PREFERRED Degree/Field Required: Licensed LPN in the State of Illinois (Related fields will be considered.) Degree/Field Preferred: N/A (Related fields will be considered.)
Must display a willingness to adopt trauma informed interventions, principles, and practices as well as commitment to ongoing development of their capacity for application of trauma informed care. Realizes the prevalence of trauma among persons served by Caritas and the general population. Recognizes how trauma affects everyone involved-including clients, their families, staff, and community; and impacts behaviors. Responds to trauma by actively implementing the guiding principles of trauma informed care into their daily practice. Resists re-traumatization of persons served and staff providing services, by creating safe, welcoming, and supportive environments.
The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
This position is based primarily in an office environment.
Subject to exposure to diseases/infections or bodily functions (from contact with others). Subject to wearing common protective or safety equipment, including but not limited to safety shoes, glasses, gloves, hearing protection, hard hats, or other PPE deemed necessary to perform the job tasks safely.
Caritas Family Solutions is dedicated to maintaining a safe, healthy, and productive environment for our clients and employees. As part of this, a strict, drug-free workplace policy is maintained.
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