Senior Licensed Vocational Nurse - Temporary, Seasonal Vaccination Clinic, Alameda, Berkeley, Oakland, Pinole, and Richmond- Various Schedules Avaialable

About the role

This position has been created to source and attract external candidates for current positions that remain unfilled within the organization. If you are a current employee, please visit the careers website for a complete listing of available positions.

Success Profile

We’re looking for Nurse Leaders who possess the following traits:

• Collaborative
• Compassionate
• Flexible
• Leadership
• Socially Conscientious
• Trustworthy

Benefits

We offer several benefits to our nurses.

Our Culture

At Kaiser Permanente, we cultivate an environment of compassion, integrity, trust, and open communication that helps our teams do their best work. We believe that lifelong learning will expand our knowledge so we can better serve our patients. Our practice is rooted in research and evidence-based care. Our nurses reflect the rich diversity of our members and communities and provide culturally responsive and competent care that promotes understanding of our members needs and preferences. At Kaiser Permanente, nurses are highly skilled professionals who exemplify leadership, critical thinking, and collaborative problem solving and deliver the right care, at the right time, in the right setting.

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Supervisory Responsibilities

This job motivates and provides work direction to other employees, but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.

Essential Responsibilities

The Licensed Vocational Nurse demonstrates proficiency by exhibiting the following skills, competencies, and behaviors:

• Leadership
• Upholds Kaiser Permanentes Policies and Procedures, Principles of Responsibilities, and applicable state, federal and local laws.
• Demonstrates a professional, supportive attitude.
• Identifies and supports new ideas.
• Utilizes effective communication strategies, including chain of command and issue escalation, which result in intended outcomes.
• Participates in problem identification and resolution.
• Mentors and orients others in skill and behavioral learning.
• Demonstrates ability to problem solve with other departments in order to assist member problem resolution.
• Prioritizes and makes work assignments appropriately to ensure completion of patient care activities.
• Complies with regulatory requirements, policies, procedures, and standards of practice.
• Nursing Process
• Performs patient care activities, within the scope of practice, considering age-related needs of the patient as assigned.
• Reports unusual findings to the Registered Nurse and contributes recommendations for revision to the plan of care.
• Adheres to hospital standards, which customize care for age-related needs of the population served.
• Keeps health care team members informed regarding patients responses to interventions.
• Collaborates with registered Nurse to develop individualized plan of care that reflects clinical findings, planning, implementing, and evaluating the outcomes of that plan.
• Makes sure care meets standards of practice.
• Documentation
• Charting is legible, dated, and timed.
• Clinical Outcomes
• Applies standard precautions; maintains a safe environment for self and others.
• Discusses patient findings and progress toward outcomes with Registered Nurse, physicians, and other members of the health care team.
• Demonstrates competencies during the probationary period and ongoing by completion of departmental competency validation.
• Participates in departmental performance improvement activities, i.e., planning, and measuring/monitoring, assessing and improving.
• Utilizes computer systems effectively and efficiently.
• Customer Service
• Practices customer service standards as defined by the Service Area, Medical Center, and specified department.
• Anticipates the customers desires, takes proactive steps to meet those needs, by listening and taking responsibility within scope to ensure issues are resolved.
• Promptly answers call lights, alarms, and patient requests.
• Under the direction of the Registered Nurse, gives patients and their significant others the information needed within their scope of practice.
• Maintains and protects patient confidentiality.
• Assures a clean, orderly, and functional work environment.
• Team Commitment
• Viewed by others to be an effective team member who is flexible, cooperative, and willing to assist others.
• Confronts difficult or conflict situations constructively and seeks appropriate assistance.
• Takes accountability for own actions and accepts constructive criticism.
• Acts as a resource, preceptor, and mentor to new employees, registry, students, and other team members.
• Adheres to Attendance Policy.
• Supports a collaborative labor-management partnership environment.

Grade

655

Experience Requirements

• Six months acute care experience (within past four years)
• Minimum six months acute care and/or related outpatient experience within past four years.
• Experience requirements may be waived or modified when an appropriate program or course is available and successfully completed for New Graduate LVNs.

Education

• High School Diploma/GED
• Vocational Nurse License (California)

Skills

• Basic Life Support
• Ability to read and comprehend simple instructions, short correspondence, and memos.
• Ability to write simple correspondence.
• Ability to effectively present information in one-on-one and small group situations to customers, clients, and other incumbents of the organization.

Supervisory Responsibilities

This job motivates and provides work direction to other employees, but does not have the authority to hire, fire or discipline.

Qualifications

• Must be willing to work in a Labor Management Partnership environment.

Pay

Grade: 655

Schedule

Variety of schedules available