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Wellpath
Mercer, Pennsylvania

Nurse Practitioner - Days - $7K Bonus

Nurse PractitionerFull-Time Physician-Supervised State

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Job Description

  • You Matter
  • Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
  • Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
  • Excellent career growth opportunities

Join Us and Find a Career That Supports

  • Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
  • Autonomy in a warm team environment
  • Growth and training

Perks and Benefits

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:

  • DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
  • 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)
  • Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
  • Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans

Why Us

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.

How You Make a Difference

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.

Key Responsibilities

  • Provides medical care to inmates, including conducting exams, chronic care clinics, and infirmary rounds.
  • Maintains accurate and legible progress note documentation in SOAP format and adheres to formulary guidelines.
  • 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.
  • Qualifications & Requirements

Education

  • A graduate of an accredited school of nursing
  • An advanced degree in an approved and accredited Nurse Practitioner program.

Experience

Prior medical/surgical and/or emergency/trauma experience and corrections experience is preferred.

Must have the patience and tact to deal with the inmate patient population and ability to work effectively in the corrections environment.

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.

Licenses/Certifications

  • Must have and maintain current licensure as a Nurse Practitioner within the state of employment.
  • Must have and maintain current CPR certification.
  • This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

We Are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer

We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.

We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.

Deadline to apply to this position is contingent upon applicant volume. Those positions located in Colorado will have a specific deadline posted in the job description.

Requirements

Candidates must hold an advanced degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program and maintain current state licensure and CPR certification. Prior experience in medical/surgical, emergency/trauma, or corrections settings is preferred.

Qualifications

Education
Professional certificate or licensure
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Clinical documentationSoap chartingEmergency responseChronic care managementPatient examinationFormulary managementReferral coordinationCorrectional healthcareCompassionate careClinical collaborationTriageHealth assessment

Family Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Family Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 10% are remote, 56% have no call, 76% require no weekends.

The cost-of-living index for Pennsylvania is 97.6 (US average = 100; BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)). 61.7% of Pennsylvania clinicians report burnout symptoms in WeekdayDoc's Burnout Index (2026-01 data).

What does the Family Medicine market look like in Pennsylvania?
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedFamily Medicine median $137k (middle half $130k–$137k)21 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingPennsylvania index 97.6US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Family Medicine listings in Pennsylvania102 active2,669 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 10% remote · 56% no call · 76% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024); as of Oct 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page.

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Salary Distribution

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Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

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401k / retirement match
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CME allowance
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Sign-on bonus
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Loan repayment
17%
Relocation assistance
13%

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Work-life snapshot

median 6.4this job 3.0
Better work-life than 20% of Family Medicine (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 2,629 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

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About Wellpath

Hospitals and Health Care
Franklin, Tennessee
5,001-10,000 employees

Benefits & Perks

$7,000 Bonus
Medical, dental, vision insurance
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Dependent Scholarships
Employee Assistance Program

Living in Mercer

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$250k
Median resident rent
$660/mo
Residents’ average commute
23 min
State income tax
Up to 3.1%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Sep 2026), U.S. Census ACS 2024 five-year.

City-level figures. Not a cost-of-living guarantee.