Licensed Nursing Assistant - Temporary

Overview

The Vermont Veterans' Home (VVH) is currently recruiting LNAs to join a compassionate team dedicated to providing best in class care to our Country's Veterans, their spouses, and Gold Star Parents. We are dedicated to providing a professional and fun environment where staff may thrive and grow all while giving back to our Nations Heroes. Our staff provide person-centered, trauma informed care to residents with a wide range of physical and psychiatric disorders.

Qualifications

• Possession of (or eligible for) licensure as a Vermont Licensed Nursing Assistant (LNA). Must maintain licensure as a condition of employment.
• This position involves patient care and treatment work at the aide level in a long-term care setting, working an assigned shift. Work assignments are performed under the direction of a Licensed Practical Nurse and/or Registered Nurse.
• In-service training courses are required and staff are encouraged to pursue continuing education.

Schedule & Pay

• Part-time (temporary/per-diem) staff on all shifts (days, evenings & nights).
• These are temporary positions working approximately 24 hours per week. The hours may include working some weekend shifts.
• Shift hours: Days, 6:00 am to 2:30 pm; Evenings, 2:00 pm to 10:30 pm; Nights, 10:00 pm to 6:30 am.
• Starting pay may be negotiable based on experience and qualifications. Shift differentials apply to evening and night shifts.
• Overtime work is required to maintain minimum staffing levels per regulation and is a condition of employment. The ability to work overtime as required is considered an essential function of this job class.

Environmental Factors

• Duties are performed in a long-term care and residential care setting. Incumbents may be assigned to any area of the facility and to any shift.
• Requires standing for long periods of time, walking for extended periods and distances, sitting, repetitive movements, bending, twisting, stretching, lifting, pushing, and pulling.
• Duties require regular and direct interaction with residents with varying degrees of physical and mental illness, dementia, infectious diseases, severe physical and mental limitations, and residents who may display unpredictable behavior.
• Incumbents predictably encounter high levels of stress and emotional situations, exposure to potentially physically and verbally violent patient populations and exposure to infectious disease.