Location: Pleasant View Towers-LTC

Licensed Practical Nurse I

Mental Health & Addictions – Long Term Care

Temporary Full-Time (until January 6, 2027, with the possibility of extension)

NAPE HS

11135RP1

Hours: 75 bi-weekly (8 & 12-hour shift work; days, evenings, nights, weekends)

Salary: CG-29 (CAD30.16 – CAD33.22 per hour) which includes a negotiated wage adjustment

Competition Number: VAC0028680

Posted Date: 2026-09-02

Closing Date: Open until filled.

Job Summary

Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) are valuable members of the interdisciplinary health care team. LPNs provide direct nursing care to predictable and unpredictable clients/patients/residents. The LPN I in the Mental Health and Addictions – Long Term Care Program working within their individual scope of practice is responsible for health assessment, medication administration, nursing care planning, disease management, wound care, end of life care and may provide mentoring and direction to students and other staff.

Job Demands

By applying for this job, you acknowledge an understanding that regular requirements and demands of this job include (but are not limited to):

Regularly requires physical exertion and handling, moving, pushing, or pulling objects between 10 – 15 lbs and occasionally required to support, lift, or move patients/objects up to 30 lbs.

Regularly required to work in awkward cramped positions (bending/kneeling/stretching) and constantly standing and moving about.

Regularly pushes and pulls objects using light to medium forces and stands and walks.

Regularly requires visual concentration to give medications, read orders/referrals, patients’ charts/document, observe and treat patients combined with time pressures and deadlines.

Job Qualifications

Successful completion of an approved Licensed Practical Nursing program.

Current and continuing practicing licensure as a Licensed Practical Nurse with the Newfoundland and Labrador College of Nurses.

Current BLS certification is required.

Demonstrated strong interpersonal and communication skills.

Demonstrated ability to maintain effective working relationships.

Demonstrated initiative and the ability to work independently.

A satisfactory record of work performance is required.