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Accreditation and Ops Compliance Specialist

Job: 168219

Location: Fort Lauderdale, FL

Facility: FL Broward Cty Reg Office

Type: Full-Time

Shift: Day 8 hour

Recruiter: Regina Delemos

Email: RDelemos@Wellpath.us

Department (Org): Nursing

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
• Diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging
• 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

 

*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service. 

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 Accreditation and Ops Compliance Specialist supports state-wide facility compliance to meet contract, accreditation, and regulatory standards, and achieve demonstrated best practice client care and safety outcomes. Overall responsibilities include conducting inspections and audits to monitor standards compliance, assisting departments with data collection, tracking and trending to monitor performance of processes and systems, and implementation of appropriate improvement actions, when indicated.

Key Responsibilities

  • Conducts audits and inspections to ensure compliance with service provision, documentation, and regulatory standards as per contract requirements.
  • Creates and maintains spreadsheets to track compliance with assigned ACA compliance indicators and prepares for internal self-assessments and audits.
  • Assists in preparing and maintaining unit accreditation files in line with organizational systems for triennial audits by the American Correctional Association.
  • Plans, researches, and analyzes documentation related to accreditation and policies, providing technical assistance across operations.
  • Coordinates external audit activities, submits responses or corrective action plans, and follows up on outstanding items from client contract audits and regulatory inspections.

Qualifications & Requirements

Education

  • bachelor’s degree preferred or Licensed Healthcare Certificate RN/LPN preferred

Experience

  • Requires a minimum of experience working in a healthcare, correctional, security, forensic facility, or secure setting.
  • Preferred: 2 years’ experience working in a compliance or related position.

Licenses/Certifications

  • Preferred: Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse

We are an Equal Employment Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer

We celebrate diversity and are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
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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.


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.