Health Services Administrator; HSA

Overview

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Agency:
Department of Corrections, Clinical Services, SDWP

Location:

Pierre
Salary: $95,000 to $110,000 depending on experience
Pay Grade: NMII
Closing Date: open until filled
Hiring Incentive: $10,000
Full state benefits and SDRS retirement available

This is a Full‑Time 40‑Hour Weekly position with the Department of Corrections. For more information on the Department of Corrections, please visit (Use the "Apply for this Job" box below). The Department of Corrections is hiring! Join the DOC – view the recruitment video here:

• Ensures operational and administrative compliance with laws, rules, regulations, standards, state licensing/credentialing, etc. affecting provision of nursing, medical, dental, and mental health services to offenders.
• Preserves offenders’ right to legally mandated healthcare by ensuring appropriate and cost‑effective utilization of medical resources and personnel.
• Establishes systems for coordination of care among multi‑disciplinary health care providers.
• Protects general public and ensures safety of staff and offender rights to healthcare services.
• Provides nursing care to offenders such as medication administration, emergency assessments, etc. during times of emergency.
• Supervises, coaches, and mentors all disciplines of staff by developing performance plans, conducting performance reviews, and completing performance evaluations per SD DOC regulations, and resolves complaints/grievances at the administrative level.
• Ensures staff compliance with offender grievance process, offender co‑pay, electronic data entry, and information systems requirements.
• Ensures the Chief Medical Officer and Chief of Clinical Operations are notified of all medical sentinel events, reportable incidents, deaths, and health outbreaks.
• Maintains continuing quality improvement (CQI) plans and processes with accurate and timely reporting.
• Fosters an environment of cohesiveness while managing a multidisciplinary operation.
• Incorporates strong team building strategies to promote partnerships and collaboration with institutional staff.
• Meets routinely with supervisors to ensure understanding of each discipline’s operations.
• Attends senior management team meetings at the institution and contributes to operations management of the facility with a clinical component.

• Current, valid license as a Registered Nurse from the South Dakota Board of Nursing or any state participating in the Enhanced Nurse Licensure Compact (eNLC).
• Five (5) years of professional experience providing direct patient care.
• Two (2) years of nursing supervisory experience, including coaching, mentoring, daily monitoring, performance management, schedule and leave approval, and compensation input.

• Ability to supervise and provide staff leadership including development, mentoring, coaching, and performance evaluation.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Ability to provide direct patient care to offenders.
• Ability to adapt, innovate, and lead in a fast‑paced environment with competing priorities and excellent organizational skills.
• Ability to problem‑solve and think critically to effectively resolve issues.
• Exceptional interpersonal skills with team collaboration across facility programs and stakeholders.
• Ambitious, operationally focused, results‑driven leadership.
• Ability to effectively manage clinical operations while ensuring health‑care measures are met.
• Advanced clinical skills.
• Ability to ensure operational and administrative compliance with regulations, standards, procedures, laws, rules, and statutes.
• Ability to read and comprehend the English language.
• Fluent verbal and written English communication.

• Bachelor’s degree in Nursing, Healthcare Administration, Healthcare Management, Health Management and Policy, Health Services Administration, or Hospital Administration.
• Experience providing operational oversight of a multi‑disciplinary health care program that delivered medical and behavioral health services.
• Experience supervising medical and behavioral health staff.
• Fiscal and budgetary experience.
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