Job Details

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 vulnerablepatients
• 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 Compliance Coordinator is responsible for supporting facility-wide compliance and performance improvement activities to ensure that contract, accreditation, and regulatory standards are met. They conduct inspections and audits to monitor compliance and assist departments with data collection, tracking, and trending to monitor the performance of processes and systems. Additionally, the Compliance Coordinator implements appropriate improvement actions to achieve best practice patient care and safety outcomes.

Key Responsibilities

• Conducts audits and inspections to ensure compliance with regulations, policies, and procedures.
• Tracks compliance indicators using spreadsheets and prepares for internal and external audits.
• Supports other departments in identifying performance indicators and monitoring their reports to track trends.
• Provides training to staff and partners on performance improvement methods, tools, and root cause analysis.
• Reviews and investigates facility events, tracks incident reports, and summarizes data for leadership analysis.

Additional Details

You will oversee healthcare quality, compliance, audits, and CalAIM program performance within the correctional setting. Candidates should be licensed nurses in California with quality assurance experience, strong analytical and reporting skills, and a solid understanding of healthcare regulations and quality improvement processes. This position can be based at either the Santa Barbara County Jail or Santa Maria facility, depending on the location you prefer!

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

• A Bachelor's degree required in human services, health care field, management, or related field is preferred.
• A Certified Correctional Health Professional certification, or equivalent, is preferred

Experience

• 3-5 years of experience in a compliance, quality assurance, or contract management related position is preferred.
• Experience in healthcare, correctional, security, forensic facility or secure setting is required.
• Demonstrated experience in performing tasks related to monitoring compliance, designing and improving processes, data collection, analysis, and reporting; systems analysis, and other tasks requiring general management and leadership skills may be substituted on a year for year basis for experience in a direct quality assurance, compliance, or contract management position.
• Experience working with accreditation or regulatory standards highly desirable.
• Experience with Six Sigma or LEAN process improvement methodologies desirable.
• Excellent written, verbal, and computer skills.
• Experience with Microsoft Office, especially Excel, required.
• Experience with data analysis software desirable.

Licenses/Certifications

• CPHQ, Six Sigma, or other quality or compliance professional certification desirable.

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.