Medical Healthcare Policy Writer - Lead

Pay Range - $140k-190k

The Lead Policy Writer owns the compliance documentation function at Correctional Healthcare Partners — the infrastructure that gives the organization its regulatory backbone across a growing multi‑state correctional healthcare enterprise. This is a build role. There is no centralized policy library, no systematic review cadence, and no dedicated owner of this function today. This person will inherit that reality and build it from the ground up, partnering with clinical, legal, compliance, and operations leadership to create a policy environment that is current, defensible, and actually usable by the people delivering care.

Reporting to the General Counsel, the Lead Policy Writer is responsible for drafting, reviewing, maintaining, and communicating policies, SOPs, and clinical guidelines across all CHP sites and functions. As CHP adds new contracts, sites, and staff, this role ensures that every operational team has clear, legally defensible guidance — and that no compliance deadline passes without a policy in place.

• Conduct a comprehensive audit of all existing CHP policies, SOPs, and clinical guidelines within the first 60 days—identify gaps, outdated materials, and non‑compliant documents; produce an inventory with status and target completion dates for every item
• Design and implement a repeatable, documented policy development process in partnership with clinical leadership, legal, compliance, and operations — every new or revised policy goes through a defined review cycle with documented SME sign‑off before publication
• Build and maintain a centralized, version‑controlled policy repository; establish a review and audit schedule so no policy exceeds a 12‑month review cycle and staff can locate any document in under 60 seconds
• Develop standardized templates, formatting conventions, and document control protocols that bring consistency across all policy types (policies, procedures, SOPs, guidelines)

• Personally draft, edit, and publish policies from regulatory source to final document — this is a hands‑on writing role, not a supervisory or advisory one
• Translate complex regulatory requirements (CMS, NCCHC, state departments of correction, HIPAA, applicable accreditation standards) into clear, practical policy language that frontline clinical staff and correctional officers can follow
• Manage 15–20 active policy projects simultaneously without losing visibility into any of them; drive review cycles to closure, escalates when stakeholders are unresponsive, and deliver on time
• Identify unintended consequences, edge cases, and conflicts with existing policies before publication; conduct impact assessments and flag concerns to the General Counsel in writing

• Establish and operationalize a system to monitor federal and state healthcare regulatory updates — CMS, NCCHC, state departments of correction, TJC, OSHA, and applicable accreditation bodies — within the first 3 months
• Define and maintain a cadence for reviewing regulatory changes, triaging impact on CHP operations, and communicating required policy updates to stakeholders before compliance deadlines
• Maintain a tracker of compliance obligations with owners and due dates; proactively initiate policy updates rather than reacting after a rule change takes effect

• Bring together clinical, legal, compliance, and operational stakeholders to co‑develop policies; manage review cycles without losing momentum and resolve conflicting perspectives without letting one stakeholder’s preference block a policy from going out
• For every new or significantly revised policy, develop plain‑language summaries and, where needed, training materials that translate regulatory complexity into actionable guidance staff actually read and retain
• Ensure all staff impacted by a policy change are notified, have access to updated materials, and can demonstrate basic comprehension of their obligations
• Present policy changes to executive leadership and frontline staff in the…