Licensed Practical Nurse
CREEDMOOR PSYCHIATRIC CENTER - Queens
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Join the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center Nursing Team!
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center is recruiting Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs). Overnight shift is available.
LPNs at Creedmoor are part of a multi-disciplinary team focused on providing compassionate care and patient-centered and recovery-focused mental health services to individuals with serious mental illness.
Under the direction of a Registered Nurse, LPNs at Creedmoor:
- Assist RNs in implementing patient care
- Maintain a safe and therapeutic environment
- Help patients with daily living skills and other activities
- Administer medication
Creedmoor Psychiatric Center, an Office of Mental Health (OMH) Joint Commission accredited hospital, is a comprehensive, community-based mental health facility serving individuals from the New York City region. Creedmoor is committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities along with activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment for underserved populations.
If you would like to join the Creedmoor Nursing Team and contribute to a workforce dedicated to public service, we offer a generous benefits package including:
- Competitive Salaries: $65,848-$70,108
- Tuition Assistance programs available to pursue advanced degrees and NYS RN Licensure
- NYS medical, dental, and vision insurance
- Excellent opportunities for advancement and professional growth
- Paid time off including vacation, holidays, personal, & sick leave
- NYS Retirement programs
Minimum Qualifications:
Licensed Practical Nurse
- NYS License and current registration to practice as a practical nurse; or
- NYS Limited Permit to practice as a practical nurse; or
- Application on file for NYS Limited Permit to practice as a practical nurse.
The Mission of the New York State Office of Mental Health (OMH) is to promote the mental health of all New Yorkers, with a focus on providing hope and supporting recovery for adults with serious mental illness and children with serious emotional disturbances. Applicants with lived mental health experience are encouraged to apply. OMH is deeply committed to supporting underserved individuals, organizations, and communities. To this end, OMH is focused on implementing activities and initiatives to reduce disparities in access, quality, and treatment outcomes for underserved populations. A critical component of these efforts is ensuring OMH is a diverse and inclusive workplace where all employees' unique attributes and skills are valued and utilized to support the mission of the Agency. OMH is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer.
Pursuant to Executive Order 161, no State entity, as defined by the Executive Order, is permitted to ask, or mandate, in any form, that an applicant for employment provide his or her current compensation, or any prior compensation history, until such time as the applicant is extended a conditional offer of employment with compensation. If such information has been requested from you before such time, please contact the Office of Employee Relations at (518) 474-6988 or via email at
In order to be eligible for appointment and to maintain employment, you cannot be listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of the Federal and/or State Medicaid and Medicare exclusion lists (or excluded from any other Federal or Federally assisted program). If you are appointed and subsequently listed as an excluded individual or entity on any of these lists (or excluded from any other Federal or federally assisted program), you may be terminated from your employment.
If appointed you may be required to become an enrolled Medicare provider; obtain and provide to your employer a National Provider Identifier (NPI) number issued by the National Plan and Provider Enumeration System (NPPES); and otherwise actively participate to the degree necessary to allow for your services to be billed through Medicare and Medicaid. If you are appointed and you lose the ability to bill through Medicare and Medicaid, you may be terminated from your employment.
Background checks will be required.