LVN - Licensed Vocational Nurse

San Diego, CA
United States

Family Health Centers of San Diego

501 to 1000 employees

FHCSD is a dynamic non-profit health care organization with more than 1,300 dedicated employees. Our commitment to quality extends to medical services, management practices and corporate (board) governance. We are accredited by The Joint Commission, the national standard setting organization for healthcare. In addition, we received the 2013 Silver CAPE Eureka Award from the California Council for Excellence for our outstanding management and governance practices. Both reflect FHCSD’s commitment to continuous improvement by benchmarking ourselves against the best and working to improve wherever possible.

FHCSD offers employees the opportunity to make a very positive difference in people’s lives. We pay competitive wages, offer excellent benefits and have a generous paid time off policy.

FHCSD is a non-profit community health center founded in 1970 whose mission is to provide caring, affordable, high quality health care to everyone, with a special commitment to the uninsured, low income and medically underserved. We operate 34 locations throughout the County of San Diego, including 17 primary care clinics, an HIV clinic and 3 mobile medical units which provide healthcare services at approximately 70 community sites.

Company Info

Job description

Family Health Centers of San Diego is hiring Licensed Vocational Nurses (LVN’s)  for our various Clinic locations.  The LVN performs a wide variety of patient care activities and accommodative services for assigned clinic patients, as direct by the Clinic Director, in order to facilitate the delivery of prompt, quality care.

Ideal Candidate:

  • LVN experience in a Clinic, Ambulatory Care, Office or similar setting Preferred.

  • New grad LVN’s will be considered

  • Bilingual strongly Preferred

Current Openings:

  • City Heights Family Health Center

  • Elm Street Family Health Center

  • Lemon Grove Family Health Center

  • Logan Heights Family Health Center

Company Description

For more than four decades, Family Health Centers of San Diego’s (FHCSD) mission has been to provide affordable, high-quality health care and support services to all people, with a special commitment to the uninsured, low-income and medically underserved. Annually, our staff provides care to more than 190,000 unique patients—a third of our region’s low-income patients—through more than 800,000 encounters.

FHCSD offers a wide range of health care services throughout the region, including 19 primary care clinics, six dental clinics, a teen health center, five behavioral health facilities, an outpatient substance abuse treatment program, vision and physical therapy departments, three mobile medical units and a pharmacy.

The breadth of our clinic locations, services and programs has grown over the last four decades, making us the largest community clinic provider of health care to the uninsured in the county and one of the top 10 largest community clinic organizations in the nation. We are also the largest health care safety-net provider, largest school-based health care provider and largest comprehensive HIV/AIDS services provider in the San Diego region.

Our Mission
To provide caring, affordable, high-quality health care and supportive services to everyone, with a special commitment to uninsured, low-income and medically underserved persons

Patient-Centered Medical Home
Family Health Centers of San Diego (FHCSD) is an accredited Patient-Centered Medical Home (PCMH) by the Joint Commission and the National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA), organizations dedicated to enhancing health care quality and safety.

At a PCMH, patients receive quality care through a direct and long-term relationship with their chosen provider and health care team. This team is respectful of and responsive to individual patient preferences, needs and values, ensuring all clinical decisions are guided by these principles. Patients, and their families, also receive support to become engaged in healthy behaviors.

Everyone at FHCSD—from clinicians to receptionists—plays a role in creating a PCMH that supports whole-person care and improves access, self-care and care coordination within and outside FHCSD.

Work location: San Diego, CA

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