Job No: 543445
Work Type: Full-time
Location: PHOENIX
Categories: Healthcare/Medical Professional Level,Healthcare/Medical Support Level,Healthcare/Nursing/Investigations/Compliance
ARIZONA DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS, REHABILIATION & REENTRY Our mission is to enhance public safety across Arizona through modern, effective correctional practices and meaningful engagements.
The Arizona Department of Corrections, Rehabilitation and Reentry (ADCRR) is committed to creating a safe, secure, and humane correctional system. With public safety top of mind, ADCRR and its more than 8,000 officers and professional staff are driven by a heart for public service and a commitment to deliver perfect effort each day. ADCRR is redefining itself as an agency whose daily work centers on transparency, accountability, and fairness.
HEALTHCARE COORDINATOR (Program Evaluation Specialist)
Job Location:
Address: 801 E Jefferson St.
Phoenix, AZ 85034
https://corrections.az.gov/
Posting Details:
Salary: $78,000
Grade: 23
Closing Date: Open Until Filled
Job Summary:
Join ADCRR as a Healthcare Coordinator (Program Evaluation Specialist) and play a vital role in improving healthcare across Arizona's correctional system. In this dynamic position, you'll monitor contracted healthcare services, review medical records and contracts, conduct quality assurance audits, and ensure care meets federal and state requirements, ADCRR policies, and NCCHC Standards.
Working closely with healthcare vendors and facility operations, you'll analyze information, identify opportunities for improvement, and help strengthen the quality, timeliness, and effectiveness of care provided to incarcerated individuals. This role is ideal for a skilled evaluator, problem-solver, and collaborator who is ready to make a meaningful, system-wide impact. Because healthcare oversight doesn't always follow a traditional schedule, occasional observation of vendor activities outside normal business hours may be required.
Job Duties:
Reviews and observes vendor and operational processes that pertain to inmate healthcare, including medication administration and utilization management
Analyzes and synthesizes information to ensure appropriate process suggestions
Reports issues of concern to the supervisory chain of command immediately
Reviews medical records for appropriateness and timelines of both on-site and off-site care
Works and collaboratively with site monitor, and conducts clinical reviews
Tracks and reports monthly care provided to specific inmates
Utilizes clinical knowledge and skills to determine appropriate inpatient or general population placement of inmates
Collaborates with health care vendors, ADCRR providers, and operations to ensure appropriate bed management of inpatient and special housing units
Completes required reports
Conducts research and composes correspondence
Attends meetings and training as required
Drive/Travels on State business
Performs other duties appropriate to the assignment
Knowledge, Skills & Abilities (KSAs):
Knowledge of:
Principles of healthcare delivery as recommended or mandated by the United States Constitution; Arizona Revised Statutes, the National Commission of Correctional Health Care, and the American Correctional Association, American Nurse Association, and the ADCRR
Professional nursing principles, nursing services related to the pharmacological process
Infection control in a high-risk environment
Quality assurance and performance improvement
Inpatient capacity management
Skill in:
Proficient evaluations of health care quality
Identification of evidence-based practice
Investigation, effective communication, and collaboration
Using Microsoft Suite and Google Suite
Planning and executing of clinical care
Analysis and synthesis of information
Organizing data and providing appropriate clinical suggestions
Ability to:
Evaluate the effectiveness and appropriateness of healthcare services
Effectively compose correspondence and reports
Multi-task
Conduct research and compose responses to issues or concerns
Maintaining and building effective working relationships between internal and external entities
Compile information and reports
Make sound decisions
Meet deadlines
Work in a prison environment
Selective Preference(s):
Certified Correctional Health Professional (CCHP) certification
Minimum of three (5) years of experience providing nursing services in a correctional setting
Must possess a valid, unrestricted, Registered Nurse or Licensed Practical Nurse Arizona Board of Nursing or compact state license.
Requires possession of, and ability to retain a current, valid state-issued driver's license appropriate to the assignment. Employees who drive on state business are subject to driver's license record checks, must maintain acceptable driving records, and must complete any required driver training (see Arizona Administrative Code R2-10-207.12).
Pre-Employment Requirements:
In an effort to maintain a safe environment, all employees are required to take a Tuberculosis (TB) test during their New Employee Orientation and every year thereafter.
Employment is contingent on the selected applicant passing a background investigation and a drug test.
If this position requires driving or the use of a vehicle as an essential function of the job to conduct State business, then the following requirements apply: Driver's License Requirements. (https://publicstorage.dc4.pageuppeople.com/1045/ClientPublicFile/3601803f-02e5-4b70-b325-26c8ef309c1b.pdf)
All newly hired State employees are subject to and must successfully complete the Electronic Employment Eligibility Verification Program (E-Verify).
Benefits:
We offer an excellent and affordable comprehensive benefits package to meet the needs of our employees:
Vacation and sick days with 10 paid holidays per year
Paid Parental Leave-Up to 12 weeks per year paid leave for newborn or newly-placed foster/adopted child (pilot program)
Robust and affordable insurance plan to include medical, dental, life, short-term and long-term disability options
Exceptional retirement program
Optional employee benefits such as deferred compensation plans, credit union membership, and a wellness program
An incentivized commuter club and public transportation subsidy program
Learn more about the Paid Parental Leave program here (https://hr.az.gov/about/resources/family-leave-expansion) . For a complete list of benefits provided by The State of Arizona, please visit our benefits page (https://benefitoptions.az.gov/jobseekers)
Retirement :
Positions in this classification participate in the Arizona State Retirement System (ASRS).
Enrollment eligibility will become effective after 27 weeks of employment.
Current ADCRR Employees: Consult with your respective Human Resources Liaison if you are in a different retirement plan than the one indicated above.
Contact Us:
The State of Arizona is an Equal Opportunity/Reasonable Accommodation Employer. Persons with a disability may request a reasonable accommodation such as a sign language interpreter or an alternative format by calling (602) 255-2430. Requests should be made as early as possible to allow sufficient time to arrange the accommodation.
