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Salary : $63,353.90 - $106,139.88 Annually
Location : 7447 Central Business Park, Norfolk, VA 23513, VA
Job Type: Permanent Part-time
Job Number: 13882
Department: Community Services Board
Division: Community Support Services
Opening Date: 08/13/2026
Closing Date: 8/23/2026 11:59 PM Eastern
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
Essential Functions
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.

Education/Experience
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 & Requirements

• 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.

Working Hours: Three days per week (Monday-Friday) / 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM / 24 hours per week

• Regular full-time and permanent part-time employees may receive paid holidays, vacation and sick leave, employer paid pension plan, basic life insurance, voluntary participation in medical and dental, Section 457 deferred compensation, long-term disability, optional life insurance for self, spouse and children, medical and dependent care reimbursement plans, access to membership in credit union and employer provided parking.
  
• Special project/grant employees are generally eligible for the same benefits of regular full-time employees; however, retirement, life insurance and participation in health plans vary depending upon funding and authorization.
  
• Temporary/seasonal and part-time employees are generally only eligible for employer provided parking and access to membership in credit union.
  
• Retirement

If you are hired October 5, 2010, or after to a position with City of Norfolk Retirement System benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.
If you are hired January 1, 2022, or after to a position with Virginia Retirement System (VRS) benefits, you will be required to contribute five percent (5%) of your salary toward your retirement benefit. This will be a pre-tax payroll deduction.

• The Tuition Assistance Program is established to encourage employees toward continued self-development and education. Permanent full-time and permanent part-time classified, unclassified permanent, full-time special projects, and constitutional employees who have completed six months continuous service will be eligible to apply. The applicant's school of enrollment must be an accredited institution.

NOTE:
The benefits described above are broad generalizations. The specific benefits that an employee may be eligible for are governed by City regulations, as applicable to job type.
Non-City
Positions listed with a job type designation of "Non-City" are not subject to the benefits descriptions above. Refer to the content of the job posting for information regarding these positions.
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The following Supplemental Questions are specific to the position for which you have applied to assist the hiring manager in screening applications for specific experience being sought. Please be specific in answering these questions as they will be used to evaluate which applications will be given further consideration in the process. Do not answer "see resume" or "see application" as these are not valid answers. Please note that if you are invited to be interviewed by the department, your responses to the following questions may be subject to verification.

• I understand and will answer the following supplemental questions completely and thoroughly.

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Do you have the legal right to work in the United States and, upon employment, can you provide documentation to verify this?

• Yes
• No

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Are you a current or previous City of Norfolk employee?

• Yes - I am a current City of Norfolk Employee
• Yes - I am a previous City of Norfolk Employee
• No - I am not a previous or current City of Norfolk employee

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If you were referred for this position by a current City of Norfolk employee, please provide the employee's full name, department, and job title, and your relationship to the employee. If not, please indicate by typing "N/A."
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Are you currently temping or volunteering with the Norfolk Community Services Board?

• Yes
• No

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Please select the highest level of education you have completed.

• High School Diploma/GED
• Some College (6 months or more)
• Vocational/Technical Degree
• Associate's Degree
• Bachelor's Degree
• Master's Degree or higher

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Do you hold a Diploma/Degree in Practical Nursing?

• Yes
• No

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Do you have one year or more years of experience working as a Licensed Practical Nurse in a medical environmentperforming patient care duties?

• Yes
• No

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Please select the number of years of experience you have providing nursing services in a psychiatric seating to individuals diagnosed with serious mental illnesses and/or substance use disorders:

• No experience
• Less than 1 year of experience
• 1-2 years of experience
• 3-4 years of experience
• 5 or more years of experience

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How much experience do you have performing phlebotomy?

• No experience
• Less than 1 year of experience
• 1-2 years of experience
• 3-4 years of experience
• 5 or more years of experience

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Has your license to practice in your profession ever been voluntarily or involuntarily relinquished, denied, suspended, revoked, restricted, or have you ever been subject to a fine, reprimand, consent order, probation or any conditions or limitations by any state or professional licensing, registration or certification board?

• Yes
• No

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Please provide the name, email address, and phone number of your current or most recent supervisor
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Please provide an explanation of any periods of unemployment that are 30 days or longer. Indicate N/A if you have not experienced any periods of unemployment.
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Have you ever been the subject of any exclusion, suspension, or debarment action by the General Services Administration (GSA), Office of Inspector General (OIG), or any other federal healthcare program including, but not limited to, Medicare or Medicaid?

• Yes
• No

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A conviction (felony or misdemeanor) does not necessarily eliminate you from employment consideration. A criminal background check is conducted on all new hires. Failure to disclose all criminal convictions may result in disqualification from employment consideration or may result in dismissal from City of Norfolk employment if you have been hired. The nature of the offense; the time that has passed since the offense, conduct and/or completion of the sentence; and the nature of the job sought may be taken into consideration. Have you ever been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor?

• I have been convicted of a felony
• I have been convicted of a misdemeanor
• I have been convicted of a felony and a misdemeanor
• I have not been convicted of a felony or a misdemeanor

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If you answered, that you have been convicted of a felony and/or a misdemeanor, please provide an explanation including the city, state and date of the conviction. This excludes minor traffic violations such as speeding tickets.
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Are you a qualified military spouse? (An individual who is certified by the designated local agency as being a spouse of a member of the United States Armed Forces)

• Yes
• No

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Please indicate your veteran status. (A copy of your long form DD-214 may be required)

• I am not a Veteran
• I am a Veteran
• I am a Disabled Veteran

Required Question