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ACT Licensed Practical Nurse (Wellness)
City of Norfolk
Community Services Board
Location
Norfolk, Virginia, 23510
Salary
$63,353.90 - $106,139.88
per year
Type
Part-Time
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March 17, 2026
SES Pay Grade
Base salary range: $147,649 - $221,900
Typical requirements: Executive-level leadership experience. Senior executive qualifications required.
Note: Actual salary includes locality pay (15-40%+ depending on location).
Job Description
Summary
This job involves working as a nurse in a community mental health program, helping people with serious mental illnesses manage their physical health through check-ups, education on healthy habits, and coordinating care with doctors.
You'll run group sessions on topics like nutrition and stress relief, and support the team in monitoring medications and symptoms.
It's a great fit for a compassionate licensed nurse who enjoys team collaboration and promoting overall wellness in a supportive public service setting.
Key Requirements
- Valid Licensed Practical Nurse (LPN) license in Virginia
- Experience providing nursing care to individuals with serious mental illness and chronic physical health conditions
- Ability to conduct health assessments and screenings (e.g., BMI, blood pressure, PHQ-9)
- Skills in developing and implementing individualized wellness plans, including nutrition, fitness, and stress management
- Proficiency in facilitating individual and group wellness education sessions
- Knowledge of evidence-based practices for wellness management and recovery (e.g., SAMHSA IMR toolkit)
- Strong collaboration skills with multidisciplinary teams, patients, families, and external providers
Full Job Description
Norfolk, Virginia is America's most authentic and urban waterfront city. Home to the world's largest naval station and the business, arts, and cultural center of Coastal Virginia, Norfolk has been rated a top place to live, work, play, and raise a family by numerous publications. Working for the City of Norfolk is an opportunity to make a real difference in the lives of others. With our commitment to competitive pay and a strong retirement package, you can do good for your community and do well for yourself. Join a caring workplace that proudly celebrates uniqueness, authenticity, and a shared commitment to improving the lives of our residents.
The Norfolk Community Services Board (NCSB) provides treatment, support, and education to the community with a focus on mental illness, substance use addiction, and intellectual/developmental disabilities. Norfolk CSB provides services to persons in acute crisis as well as integrated, person-centered, and recovery-oriented programming for persons needing assistance and support stabilizing in the community.
Today, the NCSB provides treatment and rehabilitation services to over 6,000 Norfolk citizens yearly. Norfolk CSB seeks team members interested in providing skilled services in a public service environment. We are also seeking persons to join our team that are dedicated to supporting a positive work and treatment environment. Please join us as we instill hope and recovery opportunities for the persons we serve.
The NCSB is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse in the Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) Program. The ACT Wellness LPN provides nursing wellness management and recovery services for the Norfolk CSB's Assertive Community Treatment (ACT) program. Services are provided to patients with serious mental illness and chronic physical health disorders. Contributes to the planning, development, promotion, and provision of wellness and integrated collaborative care initiatives. Services provided are aimed at preventing or decreasing chronic physical health disorders and increasing one's overall state of wellness. Works collaboratively with staff, patients, family members, primary care providers, and partner organizations towards collective whole health services and wellness goals.
Department Hiring Salary Range: $63,353-$72,700
Requirements
Essential functions include but are not limited to:Provides wellness and recovery interventions to ACT patients to include wellness-related activities for clients, ensuring comprehensive linkage to Primary Care Providers (PCPs), and conducting timely follow-ups.
Organizes and facilitate individual and group sessions on diverse wellness topics promoting holistic health education.
Assists in the development and implementation of individualized wellness plans, including healthy eating initiatives and nutrition, fitness, weight management, tobacco cessation support, interventions addressing metabolic syndrome, and stress management.
Performs and documents standardized health assessments and screenings including weight, BMI, blood pressure, AIMS, SBIRT, AUDIT, PHQ-9, ADRe, CSS, etc.
Assists in the implementation of the STEP-VA primary care screening protocols.
Engages in health promotion, prevention, and education activities.
Educates other ACT team members to help them monitor psychiatric symptoms and medication side effects.
Implements components of evidence-based wellness management and recovery practices, including those recommended the SAM HSA IMR toolkit.
Supports, assists, and advises team members in staff and patient treatment team meetings, both within the agency and between the NCSB and FQHC, to monitor patients' basic health indicators and level of risk, treatment progress: and barriers to same, and develop strategies to improve patients' overall health status.
Works collaboratively with team members to ensure that patient health indicators are tracked reliably, outcome measures monitored, and barriers to patient progress are addressed.
Performs on-site CLIA-waived lab testing in accordance with training.
Performs venous phlebotomy and collects routine as well as stat blood and urine specimens per physician/nurse practitioner requests.
Qualifications
Work requires knowledge of a specific vocational, administrative, or technical nature which may be obtained with a two year associate's degree, diploma or equivalent from a college, technical, business, vocational, or correspondence school. Appropriate certifications may be awarded upon satisfactory completion of advanced study or training.One year of experience in a medical environment performing patient care duties.
Additional Information
- Requires licensure by Commonwealth of Virginia as Practical Nurse, or if licensed in another state to be eligible via Nursing Licensure Compact.
- Must be in good standing with the Board of Nurse Examiners, and currently certified in CPR.
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