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Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Nurse Practitioner NP

Nurse PractitionerIncludes callIncludes weekendsFull-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

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.

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

0.8 FTE 32 hours per week Night shift (1) 12 hour shift 1830-0700 (2) 10 hour shifts 1830-0500 On Call 2-3 times per month Holiday and Weekend Requirement Requires a minimum of 3 years of clinical experience as a licensed Advanced Practice Provider (NP or PA), preferably within corrections or emergency medicine.

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.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to participate in the application or hiring process, please contact ADARequests@wellpath.us

Requirements

Candidates must hold a current Nurse Practitioner license and CPR certification, with a minimum of 3 years of clinical experience. A graduate degree from an accredited Nurse Practitioner program is required, with preference given to those with corrections or emergency medicine experience.

Qualifications

Education
Master's degree (postgraduate degree)
Experience
2+ years of experience

Key Skills

Patient examinationChronic care managementSoap documentationEmergency responseMedical triageCorrectional healthcareTreatment planningCompassionate careClinical documentationHealth assessmentPatient advocacy

Correctional Medicine — Nurse Practitioner Career Context

Of the 50 active Nurse Practitioner listings this role was benchmarked against, 24% are remote, 64% have no call, 74% require no weekends.

Nurse Practitioner pay on WeekdayDoc is up 2.0% vs. the prior quarter (through Oct 2026).

Nurse Practitioner by the numbers
MeasureThis jobMarket
Listed paynot listedNurse Practitioner median $153k (middle half $148k–$153k)10 comparable listings, Nov 2026
Cost of livingWisconsin index 94.1US average = 100BEA Regional Price Parities (2024)
All nurse practitioner listings in Wisconsin255 active15,522 nationallylive on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Work settingon-sitepeers: 24% remote · 64% no call · 74% no weekends50 benchmarked listings
Sign-on & loan repaymentnot statedWisconsin nurse practitioner listings (all specialties): 8% state a sign-on bonus · 5% offer loan repayment255 active listings, Nov 2026
Correctional Medicine NP hiring demandnot ranked this monthpostings stay open a median 30 daysWeekdayDoc Hiring Index, October 2026 · 51 postings, 65 closed
New Correctional Medicine NP listings51 in the last 30 days49 the 30 days before (+4%)U.S., first seen on WeekdayDoc, Nov 2026
Nurse Practitioner pay trend (all specialties)+2.0% vs prior quarter—through Oct 2026
Sources: WeekdayDoc live listing index, BEA Regional Price Parities (2024), WeekdayDoc Hiring Index; as of Nov 2026. Same values as the Weekday Verdict and Market Insights on this page. Wisconsin figures use all nurse practitioners: too few Wisconsin Correctional Medicine postings state pay.

Top Nurse Practitioner Jobs

50 matches · ranked by pay

Salary Distribution

50 jobs · 39 employers
14
<$150k
14
$150k-170k
14
$170k-190k
3
$190k-210k
5
$210k+

Annual compensation range

Benefits & Perks

39 jobs
401k / retirement match
87% this job
CME allowance
51%
Sign-on bonus
44%
Loan repayment
18%
PSLF eligible
10%

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#3

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#4

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Work-life snapshot

median 3.6this job 2.4
Better work-life than 20% of Correctional Medicine (NP) listings

Listing-based score, 0–10, across 133 comparable listings. Shaded area = the share scoring below this one.

  • Includes call
  • Includes weekends
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About Wellpath

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

Benefits & Perks

Medical, Dental, Vision
Paid Time Off
401k
DailyPay
Tuition Assistance
Employee Assistance Program
Company Paid Life Insurance
Health Spending Accounts (HSA)

Living in Milwaukee

Typical 3-bedroom home value
$232k
Typical market rent
$1,443/mo
Residents’ average commute
22 min
Metro price indexU.S. average = 100
96.9
State income tax
Up to 7.7%
Sources & methodology

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

BEA 2024 · Milwaukee-Waukesha, WI metro prices. Housing figures are city-level.

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