Operations Specialist - Southern CA

Socket.dev; San Luis Obispo (CA); On-site; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

Wellpath seeks an Operations Specialist to support clinical decision-making and policy development across multiple sites. You will guide the operational management team and ensure accreditation standards are met with a focus on quality care and compliance.

The role requires a nursing background, corrections experience, and ability to obtain necessary background clearances. Training, advancement, and a mission-driven environment are provided.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing is preferred.
• NCCHC and ACA knowledge are desirable.
• At least three years' experience in corrections is preferred.
• RN Certification and CPR certification are advantageous.

Responsibilities

• Guide and support the operational management team in clinical decision-making and policy development.
• Ensure compliance with accreditation standards such as ACA, NCCHC, and TJC.
• May cover leadership roles at facilities for extended periods.
• Coach others in procurement, staffing, budgeting, and ethics compliance.
• Maintain required background/security clearances for client facilities.

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Nursing

RN Certification

CPR Certification

Corrections experience

NCCHC/ACA knowledge

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 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.

Key Responsibilities

• 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.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

• Bachelor's Degree in Nursing preferred.

Experience

• NCCHC and/or ACA knowledge and experience. At least three years' experience in corrections.
• Previous employment as an HSA/DON preferred.

Licenses/Certifications

• RN Certification preferred; CPR certification.

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.

This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.

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.