Corrections Nurse ; Nursing Supervisor, PCN

Job Description

The Department of Corrections, Division of Health and Rehabilitation Services, is recruiting for a Corrections Nurse 3 for the Wildwood Correctional Complex (WCC) in Kenai, Alaska.

Watch Alaska DOC HARS video here:

• Supervise, mentor, and evaluate nursing staff to ensure quality and compliance with established policies and procedures.
• Triage and assess patients.
• Maintain patient medical records.
• Observe, document, and report changes in the physical and mental conditions of patients.
• Handle crisis situations in a calm and effective manner.

HARS Mission Statement: To provide timely access to essential care through an evidence‑based multidisciplinary approach. We are committed to a culture of professionalism, quality and safety.

HARS Vision Statement: We are committed to the wellbeing of those under the care of the Alaska Department of Corrections. Individuals will be treated in a safe, respectful and compassionate manner. We are dedicated to providing essential care and to promoting health and rehabilitation.

As a Corrections Nurse you will be part of a team and enjoy work/life balance. HARS offers free online education for CEUs through Relias.

In this role, you will oversee the nursing teams at Wildwood Correctional Complex (WCC), providing comprehensive nursing care and professional guidance to ensure the delivery of high‑quality inmate health services. You will serve in a leadership capacity to plan, organize, and evaluate health operations and electronic health record systems in compliance with institutional policies, regulatory standards, and legal requirements.

We are interested in candidates who possess some or all of the following position‑specific competencies:

• Leadership: Inspires, motivates, and guides others toward goal accomplishment; coaches, mentors, and challenges subordinates; adapts leadership styles to a variety of situations.
• Managing Human Resources: Plans, distributes, and monitors work assignments of others; evaluates work performance and provides feedback to others on their performance.
• Technical Competence: Uses knowledge that is acquired through formal training or extensive on‑the‑job experience to perform one’s job; works with, understands, and evaluates technical information related to the job; advises others on technical issues.
• Decision Making: Makes sound, well‑informed, and objective decisions; perceives the impact and implications of decisions; commits to action, even in uncertain situations, to accomplish organizational goals; causes change.
• Oral Communication: Expresses information (for example, ideas or facts) to individuals or groups effectively, taking into account the audience and nature of the information (for example, technical, sensitive, controversial); makes clear and convincing oral presentations; listens to others, attends to nonverbal cues, and responds appropriately.

Eligibility to practice as a Registered Nurse in the State of Alaska.

Two years of professional experience as a Registered Nurse, one of which must have been at the full‑performance/journey level. Examples of this latter experience include but are not exclusively limited to prior service as a Corrections Nurse 2, Psychiatric Nurse 2, or Nurse 2 with the State of Alaska or its equivalent with another employer.

Substitution: Combinations of prior training and experience in other specializations of nursing care (e.g., Med‑Surg, Psychiatric, Public Health, Critical Care) will be evaluated for comparability on a case‑by‑case basis.

Special

Note:

Candidates not currently licensed by the State of Alaska, who otherwise meet the eligibility requirements for licensure as a Registered Nurse in the State of Alaska and requisite qualifying experience, may apply for vacancies in this job class. Applicants qualifying under this option may receive a conditional job offer; however, proof of licensure will be required prior to final appointment and reporting for duty.

Some positions may require the successful applicant to pass a…