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Central Maine Medical Center LPN, Full-time, Bolster Heights LTC in Auburn, Maine
At Central Maine Healthcare our team members are committed to providing exceptional care and experiences for our community and for each other every day.
Bolster Heights is seeking an LPN to join our team! This is a full-time, 40-hours, benefits eligible position. Starting pay is $27.00 per hour plus $7500 Sign-on bonus.
This is an LPN position with our Bolster Heights Long Term Care Facility in Auburn, Maine. The LPN provides professional nursing services to residents in nursing homes and skilled rehab settings, ensuring residents' needs are met through monitoring residents for changes and ensuring safe and quality care. The LPN contributes to the individualized direct resident care to the geriatric resident populations, in conjunction with physicians and multidisciplinary team members.
Education and Experience:
Must possess a current, unencumbered, active license to practice as an LPN in the State of Maine.
Current Basic Life Support (BLS) certification required within 3 months of hire.
Must be proficient with basic computer skills.
What It’s Like Working at Bolster Heights:
We are all about our team members growth and health. That why we prioritize work/life balance, community-based wellness initiatives and tuition reimbursement or student loan repayment for ALL of our team members.
CMH offers a robust benefits package that includes:
Robust Paid Time Off (PTO) program
Medical plan with enhanced Tier 1 benefits provided within the CMH system.
Dental plan
Vision plan
Health Savings Account (HSA)
Basic Life insurance at no cost
Supplemental Life insurance
Long-term disability insurance
401(k) or 403(b) retirement savings plans
Tuition IO partnership for student loan repayment assistance and tuition assistance
Family leave program for Parental Leaves
Comprehensive Wellness Program
Essential Duties:
Participate in bedside handoff, reporting to nurses coming on duty while including the resident to provide necessary information and facilitate the delivery of excellent resident care.
Respond to any issues on the floor during the shift to include but not limited to; staffing issues/callouts, person supported dissatisfaction, emergency medical situations, etc.
Supervise and monitor direct care provided by CNA staff.
Communicate with physicians, guardians and other healthcare providers on behalf of the people supported regarding any health changes or concerns.
Monitor nursing needs of people supported.
Contribute to nursing assessments and care planning.
Adhere to Administer medications and treatments as ordered by the physician; coordinate with the pharmacy to arrange medication refills and deliveries.
Follow Infection Prevention and Control practices and protocols.
Identify resident problems and emergency situations and initiate emergency care and “lifesaving” measures per BLS and other protocols and policies.
Act as a resource for, assists and directs C.N.A. staff in ensuring safe, quality resident care is provided.
Administer and document resident care, medications and treatments per physicians’ orders within the EMR in accordance with policy.
Notify registered nurse and other personnel as necessary, of changes in residents’ conditions and take appropriate follow-up action.
Assure housekeeping tasks are completed on unit in accordance with policy. Maintain clean resident rooms, restock as needed and change bed linen according to hospital practice.
Ensure documentation meets current regulations and policies.
Answer telephone/intercom professionally and communicate information to appropriate personnel.
Communicate appropriately and clearly within the interdisciplinary team, including managers, supervisors, co-workers, and providers.
Treat residents and families with respect and dignity, identifying and addressing psychosocial, cultural, ethnic and religious/spiritual needs of residents and family.
Interact professionally with providers, staff, residents and families.
Promote the mission, vision and values of the organization.
Maintain a good working relationship both within the department and within the organization.
Interpret existing policies and procedures to C.N.A.’s, residents, families and physicians when necessary.
Completes mandatory in-services, on-line modules, and competency-based trainings routinely and annually.
Follows all employee health procedures, incident reporting, and infection control requirements at all times, as appropriate to the position.
If you are passionate about making a difference and are looking for your next great career opportunity, we look forward to reviewing your application!
AT CENTRAL MAINE HEALTHCARE YOU ARE AT THE CENTER OF EVERYTHING WE DO
Our why, our purpose, drives every decision and action we take as a healthcare system. We strive everyday to deliver exceptional care, and to improve our community. We are a non-profit organization that is breaking the traditional healthcare mold by bringing our patients and their family’s high value, low cost, and award-winning care while focusing on creating an exceptional experience for them; all within their communities. To accomplish this, we only hire individuals who are committed to excellence, who embody the principles of our CMH Experience Service Standards, and who are ready to step in and help their fellow team members achieve those exceptional results for our patients, their families, and the community.
Central Maine Healthcare System
The organization is broad in its footprint, with three (3) hospitals in Bridgton, Lewiston, and Rumford, and over 75 individual practices within our Medical Group. Lewiston’s Central Maine Medical Center is a certified and award-winning level two trauma center, along with our Central Maine Heart and Vascular Institute and the upcoming highly anticipated launch of our comprehensive state of the art cancer treatment center. Both Bridgton and Rumford Hospitals are four (4) star accredited acute care hospitals, and our Medical Group and Maine Urgent Care Centers have won multiple awards within their specialties. As a system we are a six-time winner of the Leapfrog Safety A Rating since 2019, representing some of the highest quality care and outcomes nationwide. Our awards and accolades are only possible as a result of our commitment to culture, and a focus on safety and inclusion, in each of our patient’s experiences and in the experiences we create within our teams.
If you are a person who is looking for a way to give back to your community, to help improve the lives of patients or those who care for our patients, want to be part of a growing organization that is setting the bar for Maine healthcare, apply to join Central Maine Healthcare today!
Diversity and Equal Employment Opportunity
CMH actively promotes diversity in its workforce at all levels of the organization. We strive to create and maintain a setting where we celebrate cultural and other differences and consider them strengths of the organization. CMH is an equal opportunity workforce and no one shall discriminate against any individual with regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or veteran status with respect to any offer, or term or condition, of employment. We make reasonable accommodations to the known physical and mental limitations of qualified individuals with disabilities.