Healthcare Operations Specialist (Must be Located in Southern CA)

Wellpath • San Diego, CA

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About The Position

Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved. 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. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. 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!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time. 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. About this role The Operations Specialist is responsible for guiding and supporting the operational management team in clinical decision-making, policy development, and achieving company objectives across various sites. They provide expertise in correctional nursing and ensure compliance with accreditation standards such as ACA, NCCHC, and TJC. Additionally, the specialist may cover leadership roles at facilities for extended periods.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Nursing preferred.
• NCCHC and/or ACA knowledge and experience.
• At least three years’ experience in corrections.
• Previous employment as an HSA/DON preferred.
• RN Certification preferred; CPR certification.
• Demonstrated technical and process knowledge and the ability to coach others in the leadership of operations procurement, flow and distribution including supplies, machinery, equipment or tools to be used or merchandise to be bought, stocked and sold.
• Demonstrates financial literacy and capability to coach others in the areas of staffing/planning, planning, administration and execution.
• Demonstrated knowledge and leadership ability to provide guidance in the maintenance of state, federal and local ethics compliance guidelines and policies.
• Understands and demonstrates the ability to coach others in the appropriate application of incident tracking, review, resolution, preventative and reporting procedures, including, but not limited to discrepancies in sharps and tool counts and medication errors.
• Must be able to secure and maintain required background/security clearance for all client facilities.

Nice To Haves

• RN Preferred.
• Correctional experince preferred.

Responsibilities

• Guiding and supporting the operational management team in clinical decision-making
• Policy development
• Achieving company objectives across various sites
• Providing expertise in correctional nursing
• Ensuring compliance with accreditation standards such as ACA, NCCHC, and TJC
• Covering leadership roles at facilities for extended periods

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees