Chief Nursing Officer

Posting Date

09/09/26

Open Until Filled

$131,000 - $194,000 annually

Salary offers are based on the candidate's equivalent experience and internal equity with other employees within the same job classification. This position is not eligible for overtime compensation.

Unclassified

Correctional Health

Correctional Health Services (CHS) is seeking a collaborative, visible, and highly accountable Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) to provide executive leadership for nursing and clinical support services within a complex, 24/7 correctional healthcare system. Reporting to the CHS Director and serving as a member of the Senior Executive Team, the CNO is responsible for the strategic, clinical, operational, workforce, and fiscal leadership of nursing services across all CHS facilities.

The CNO leads through a team of nursing leaders and is accountable for developing strong, effective leaders who consistently translate organizational priorities into safe, reliable, and high-quality patient care.

The CNO ensures that nursing operations support evidence-based, medically necessary, integrated healthcare for patients throughout their incarceration in the County jail system.

The successful candidate will be an experienced leader of leaders who builds trust, establishes accountability, develops high-performing teams, uses data to drive decisions, and works effectively across professional and organizational boundaries. This individual must be comfortable leading change, addressing difficult issues directly, and balancing clinical excellence with operational, workforce, fiscal, regulatory, accreditation, and governmental responsibilities.

Because healthcare delivery occurs within a public-safety environment, the CNO must also develop and maintain productive partnerships with County Leadership, Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO), County departments, regulatory and accrediting organizations, community partners, and other stakeholders while maintaining appropriate clinical independence and professional nursing standards.

Correctional Health Services is an industry-leading healthcare organization serving the incarcerated population within the Maricopa County jail system. CHS provides 24/7 medical, dental, mental health, psychiatric, substance use disorder, and Opioid Treatment Program (OTP) services.

Our multidisciplinary teams work in a complex and rapidly changing environment where collaboration, innovation, continuous learning, accountability, and adaptability are essential.

CHS challenges its leaders and employees to identify opportunities, remove barriers, improve systems, and continuously advance the quality, safety, efficiency, and effectiveness of patient care.

• Work with a greater purpose

• Tuition reimbursement

• Exceptional work-life balance

• Opportunities for growth and development within Maricopa County

• Low-cost, high-value healthcare for you and your qualifying dependents

• Child care benefits, including access to our on-site center, Maricopa County Kids Club, dedicated to serving Maricopa County families

• Paid vacation, sick time, and parental leave

• Extensive wellness program, including an incentive

• Enrollment in the Arizona State Retirement System, a defined retirement benefit requiring an 11.98% per paycheck contribution rate that includes a 100% employer match on Day 1

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• Seven years of nursing experience in a hospital, ambulatory, correctional, behavioral health, or similarly complex healthcare environment

• Two years of nursing leadership experience (nursing operations,…