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Wellpath
Ventura, California

Nurse Practitioner

Nurse PractitionerPer Diem Physician-Supervised State

Compensation

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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

Conducts routine and emergency medical care for inmates, including chronic care clinics, infirmary rounds, and emergency treatment on-site.

Adheres to established policies and procedures for medical care, including documentation in SOAP format, adherence to formulary regimens, and utilizing available in-house resources for treatment.

Assumes responsibility and accountability for individual judgments and actions, while also reporting any concerns or questions to the Medical Director or Health Services Administrator.

Maintains patient confidentiality and privacy in accordance with accepted practices for incarcerated individuals.

Provides input into facility mandatory committees as requested.

Additional Details

This role will be a true PRN/As needed role, with coverage being needed periodically to cover time off for our full time providers.

Candidates should be comfortable with substance withdrawal management, partnering with psych NP's and behavioral health staff, infectious disease management, MAT and standardized protocols (Title 15/NCCHC/ACA).

In addition, candidates should feel comfortable doing suturing, incision and draining (abscesses are extremely common), basic wound care and debridement, splinting/minor fracture management, EKG interpretation, and emergency response (codes and overdoses)

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 a current Nurse Practitioner license and have graduated from an accredited nursing program. Prior experience in medical/surgical, emergency/trauma, or corrections environments is preferred.

Qualifications

Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Corrections healthcare

Correctional Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Correctional Medicine listings this role was benchmarked against, 36% are remote, 50% have no call, 72% require no weekends.

Correctional Medicine pay on WeekdayDoc is up 3.2% vs. the prior quarter (through Sep 2026).

Correctional Medicine by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedCorrectional Medicine median $239k (middle half $192k–$293k)22 comparable listings, Oct 2026
Cost of livingCalifornia index 110.7US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
Correctional Medicine listings in California8 active123 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Oct 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 36% remote · 50% no call · 72% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Correctional Medicine pay trend+3.2% vs prior quarter—through Sep 2026
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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Work-life snapshot

median 3.2this job 2.8
Better work-life than 40% of Correctional Medicine (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 124 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

Medical, dental, vision insurance
Paid time off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program
Company paid life insurance
Health Spending Accounts

Living in Ventura

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$870k
Typical market rent
$2,888/mo
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
110.5
State income tax
Up to 13.3%
Sources & methodology

Sources: Zillow home values (Aug 2026), Zillow market rents (Aug 2026).

BEA 2024 · Oxnard-Thousand Oaks-Ventura, CA metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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