What You’ll Do (aka Description):
It is time to take your career to the next level. As a Licensed Vocational Nurse at Optum, you will be responsible for performing moderately complex and/or specialized patient-oriented procedures under the supervision of a clinician or Registered Nurse (RN) to ensure that patients receive appropriate care. Responsible for performing operational duties as required under the supervision of the site administrator or designee.
What Work Will Look Like:
- Schedule: Monday – Friday 8am – 5pm
- Location: Various clinics within the Los Angeles metropolitan area.
- Setting: Primary Care
- Experience in an Urgent Care, Emergency Room or Critical Care setting is preferred.
What’s required?
- 1 or 2 years of post-high school education or a degree from a two-year college.
- Graduation from an accredited Licensed Vocational Nurse program.
- Current California LVN license.
- I.V. therapy and phlebotomy certification required.
- Basic Life Support for Healthcare Providers (AHA)- (100% online certification is not acceptable).
- Over 1 year and up to and including 3 years of experience.
- If you need to enter a work site for any reason, you will be required to screen for symptoms using ProtectWell mobile app, Interactive Voice Response (i.e., entering your symptoms via phone system) or a similar UnitedHealth Group-approved system screener. When in a United Health Group building, employees are required to wear a mask in common areas. In addition, employees must comply with any state and local masking orders.
It’d be even better if (#Preferred):
- Experience in an ambulatory care setting and/or specialty area such as: OR, ER, Urgent Care
Careers with Optum. Here’s the idea. We built an entire organization around one giant objective; make health care work better for everyone. Optum, part of the UnitedHealth Group family of businesses, brings together some of the greatest minds and most advanced ideas on where health care has to go in order to reach its fullest potential. For you, that means working on high performance teams against sophisticated challenges that matter. Here you’ll find incredible ideas in one incredible company and a singular opportunity to do your life’s best work.(SM)