Nurse Practitioner - NP
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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.
- Additional Details
- Position covers sites in Hartford, Hamden and Waterbury
- 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 CPR certification, along with an advanced degree from an accredited program. Prior experience in medical/surgical, emergency/trauma, or corrections environments is preferred.
Qualifications
- Education
- Professional certificate or licensure
- Experience
- 2+ years of experience
Key Skills
Correctional Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context
Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 30% are remote, 64% have no call, 70% require no weekends.
Nurse Practitioner pay on WeekdayDoc is up 1.8% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).
| Measure | This job | Market |
|---|---|---|
| Listed pay | not listed | Nurse Practitioner median $160k (middle half $158k–$170k)22 comparable listings, Nov 2026 |
| Cost of living | Connecticut index 103.6 | US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024) |
| Nurse Practitioner listings in Connecticut | 234 active | 13,619 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Work setting | on-site | peers: 30% remote · 64% no call · 70% no weekends50 benchmarked listings |
| Sign-on & loan repayment | not stated | Connecticut Nurse Practitioner listings: 23% state a sign-on bonus (median $14k) · 14% offer loan repayment234 active listings, Nov 2026 |
| Correctional Medicine hiring demand | not ranked this month | postings stay open a median 30 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 51 postings, 65 closed |
| New Correctional Medicine listings | 58 in the last 30 days | 48 the 30 days before (+21%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026 |
| Nurse Practitioner pay trend | +1.8% vs prior quarter | —through Oct 2026 |
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