Matron for Surgery

Excellent career growth opportunities

Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• Growth and training

In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:

• Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
• Company paid life insurance
• Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
• Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

*If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.

We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.
The Nurse Practitioner (NP) under the supervision of the Site Medical Director and other site Physicians, offers a comprehensive range of medical services to incarcerated patients in accordance with established policy and state guidelines. They ensure necessary documentation of services is provided to the Site Medical Director or designee to monitor the provision of clinical services. Additionally, they communicate scheduling changes to the Medical Director and H.S.A. and make arrangements for coverage of medical services if unavailable for an extended period of time .
Provides medical care to inmates, including conducting exams, chronic care clinics, and infirmary rounds.
Responds to emergencies and makes logical decisions regarding non-formulary drugs or off-site referrals.
Supports existing policies and procedures for admission, transfer, and specialty consultant referrals.
~ Maintains confidentiality and provides input into facility committees as requested .

A graduate of an accredited school of nursing

~ An advanced degree in an approved and accredited Nurse Practitioner program.

Prior medical/surgical and/or emergency/trauma experience and corrections experience is preferred .
Scheduling flexibility is also required to be able to rotate hours and shifts, if needed, and to be called during emergency situations to provide coverage.

Must have and maintain current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner within the state of employment .
We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.