- Location
- Cedar City, Utah, United States · published
- Type
- Part-time
- Department
- Healthcare
- Source
- Workable
Description
We believe in the potential of individuals and the ability to restore choice. Through nurturing relationships and challenging experiences, we all can discover hope, passion, and perseverance in the face of life’s adversity.
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Part- time | 20-25 hrs/week | Pay $16-$18/HR doe | potential to move to full time
Must be available for weekend on-call questions
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Located on a large, breath-taking private ranch on the outskirts of beautiful Cedar City, Discovery Ranch South is a licensed, accredited residential treatment center for for adolescent females. As our LPN and/or Medical Assistant, you will work with our clinical team to provide integrated care services to our students. You will work directly with our students to monitor their health, provide health education, and address their concerns. You will also manage communication regarding students' health with therapists, mentors, and our students' parents.
Discovery Ranch South combines the power of traditional and experiential therapies to create a clinically sophisticated, relationship-based residential treatment program. Healthy relationships, novel and challenging experiences, and a strengths-based approach are how we foster the healing process and create lasting change.
Be a part of the healing journey. Join the clinical team at Discovery Ranch South.
Responsibilities
- Provide on-call medical support on weekends, with flexibility to coordinate weekend off-days with nursing staff.
- Communicate medical needs/concerns to parents/legal guardians
- Coordinate approval by parents/legal guardians for medication changes
- Inform parents/legal guardian of upcoming appts., medical updates or concerns
- Coordinate parent calls to talk with psychiatrist
- Communicate medical concerns to referral sources
- Manages all student medications
- Ensures medications are secured, accounted for and dispensed as ordered by the prescribing physician
- Properly disposes old/unused medications
- Monitors/assess medication efficacy and side effects
- Stocks,restocks, and reorders medical supplies and equipment
- Stocks/restocks first aid kits throughout the entire campus
- Fanny packs stocked/restocked with Epipens,inhalers,other necessary meds
- Check In as needed at student housing
- Competencies
- Action oriented: Achieves results, overcomes obstacles, accepts responsibility
- Leadership: Motivates and collaborates with leadership team
- Effective verbal and written communication: Shares information with clarity, listens carefully
- Creative and innovative: Develops/improves existing systems with effectiveness
- Customer oriented: Listens, builds confidence, ensure needs are met
- Interpersonal skills: Effectively establishes trust, credibility and confidence, effectively regulates emotions
- Teamwork: Is a part of and utilizes teams to optimize results, acts to build trust, effectively resolves conflicts