Institutional Supervising Registered Nurse

Job Description:

Institutional Supervising Registered Nurse

Description

Definition & Distinguishing Characteristics

Do you have a passion for nursing leadership and a commitment to delivering safe, ethical, and high-quality healthcare in a correctional setting? Are you ready to provide clinical and administrative supervision while guiding nursing staff and supporting effective correctional health programs?

The County of Colusa is seeking an experienced and dedicatedInstitutional Supervising Registered Nurseto plan, implement, supervise, and evaluate health care services within an adult correctional facility as part of the Health and Human Services Department, Public Health Unit. This advanced journey-level role oversees correctional nursing operations, supervises staff, and ensures the delivery of compliant, patient-centered care to justice-involved individuals.

This position offers the opportunity to combine hands-on clinical nursing practice with program management, staff development, and collaboration with interdisciplinary treatment teams, County departments, and community partners. If you are a skilled Registered Nurse who thrives in a complex environment and is motivated to lead correctional nursing services while improving health outcomes, this opportunity may be the right fit for you. To learn more about this position, please click on the job description HERE .
This is a full-time 37.5-hour per week role, Monday-Friday, with on-call hours as needed to respond to jail emergencies, and occasional nights, weekends, or holidays depending on facility or public health needs.

There is one (1) current vacancy. This recruitment will also be used to establish an eligibility list to fill future openings without reposting.

This recruitment is open until filled. To receive full consideration, applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible, as the recruitment may close at any time after February 22, 2026, following application review.

What’s This Job All About?
In this role, the Institutional Supervising Registered Nurse plans, directs, and oversees health care services and education within an adult correctional facility while providing both clinical and administrative supervision to correctional nursing staff. Working within the Health and Human Services Department, Public Health Unit, this position coordinates day-to-day operations and health services programming to ensure safe, ethical, and compliant care.

Responsibilities include managing correctional nursing programs, providing clinical leadership and direct patient care as needed, and supervising, training, and evaluating nursing staff. The role ensures compliance with County, State, and Federal regulations, supports quality assurance and utilization review activities, and assists departmental leadership with policy development, program planning, and evaluation. Collaboration with interdisciplinary treatment teams, the Sheriff’s Office, County departments, and community partners is essential to supporting effective patient care and continuity of services.
This role is well suited for an experienced Registered Nurse with strong clinical expertise, leadership skills, and the ability to manage complex operations in a correctional setting while improving health outcomes for justice-involved individuals.
How Do We Make a Difference?
The Department of Health & Human Services is committed to protecting and improving the health, safety, and well-being of the community through comprehensive public health and correctional healthcare services. The Institutional Supervising Registered Nurse advances this mission by leading and overseeing correctional health care services within an adult correctional facility.

Through clinical and administrative leadership, this position supports and develops correctional nursing staff while ensuring the delivery of safe, ethical, and compliant care. By managing health programs, ensuring regulatory compliance, responding to medical emergencies, and collaborating with interdisciplinary treatment teams, the Sheriff’s Office, County departments, and community partners, this role helps improve health outcomes for justice-involved individuals and supports continuity of care within the correctional setting and the broader community.

What are the benefits?

• A beautiful, safe community in which to work and serve.
• A caring, empathetic, & fun work family that you will be welcomed into.
• A job with WORK-LIFE BALANCE
• Competitive salary commensurate with education & experience
• A LIFETIME PAYCHECK (3% @ 60 for Classic Members and 2% @ 62 for New Members) - A s long as you work for 5 years and vest in the CalPERS system, you will receive a retirement paycheck for the rest of your life.
• Amazing health care BENEFITS at NO COST to you - Unless you choose a premium health care plan.
• Authentically kind and engaged leadership who truly enjoy developing staff.
• 457 Deferred Compensation.
• PAID vacation, PAID holidays (15), and PAID leave if you get sick.
• Vacation Parity - Previous service with a public agency counts towards vacation accrual at Colusa County. A public agency includes cities, counties, districts, the military, and similar entities. To learn more about vacation parity, please see our benefit summary.

COME LEAD, INSPIRE, AND SERVE WITH COLUSA COUNTY - WE’RE WAITING FOR YOU!

Supervision & Examples of Duties

Reports to the Deputy Director and/or Health Administrator of Health and Human Services, or designee.

Receives administrative direction from the Deputy Director and/or Health Administrator of Health and Human Services.

Receives medical direction from the Health Officer.
Exercises direct supervision over the correctional nursing staff, as assigned.

Qualifications

Any combination of experience and training that would likely provide the required knowledge and abilities is qualifying. A typical way to obtain the knowledge and abilities would be:

Experience:

A typical pathway may include:

• Graduation from an accredited nursing program.
• Possession of a valid California Registered Nurse license.
• Increasingly responsible nursing experience, including supervisory or lead experience, preferably in correctional or institutional health care.

Required:
Professional experience in a public health department, healthcare, or institutional setting. Successful candidates will typically have the equivalent of two (2) or more years of professional nursing, licensed professional, or related healthcare experience, which may include work in public or private settings.

Preferred:
Additional experience totaling four (4) or more years in a public health or healthcare institutional environment, including supervisory and/or administrative responsibilities. Experience working in a 24-hour psychiatric or adult correctional facility is preferred. Supervisory experience in the medical field and bilingual proficiency in Spanish are desirable.

Other combinations of education and experience that demonstrate the required knowledge, skills, and abilities will be considered.

Training:
An Associates degree in Nursing.

Licensing or Certifications:
A valid State of California driver’s license and an acceptable driving record.

Must be licensed to practice by the California Board of Registered Nurses, remain active with all annual licensing requirements, and maintain a clear criminal record.

Requires current BLS/CPR certification.

Special Requirements:
Must possess, or be willing to obtain, national provider identifier (NPI).

Must not be excluded from participation in any federally funded health care program including, without limitation, Medicare or Medi-Cal.

Must successfully complete an extensive and thorough law enforcement background investigation to obtain and maintain Sheriff’s Office security clearance.

Ability to work flexible schedules as operational needs require.

Attendance at required administrative meetings and trainings.

PHYSICAL REQUIREMENTS :
The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of the job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential duties

Work is usually performed in an institutional correctional setting.

The employee is occasionally exposed to outside weather conditions.

The noise level in the work environment is usually moderate.

Work may require exposure to communicable diseases and blood borne pathogens; continuous contact with other staff and justice involved persons.

May be required to work extended hours or shift schedule.

An employee may operate a motor vehicle.

See well enough to read fine print and view a computer screen; speak and hear well enough to understand, respond, and communicate clearly in person and on the telephone; independent body mobility sufficient to stand, sit, walk, stoop and bend to access the work environment and a standard office environment; manual dexterity and sufficient use of hands, arms and shoulders to repetitively operate a keyboard and to write; and the ability to sit or walk for prolonged periods of time.

Mobility to work in a correctional clinic setting and use equipment standard to the field.

Lift, carry, push and/or pull equipment and supplies weighing up to 50 pounds.

Supplemental Information

The salary range above consists of 15 steps. Steps 1-6 are annual merit steps with approximately 5% difference between each step, based on successful performance. Steps 7-15 are additional merit steps, requiring 2 years of satisfactory performance at the previous step. Steps 7-14 provide 2.5% increases, while Step 15 offers a 5% increase. The final salary offered will depend on the applicant's experience and qualifications, ranging from steps 1 to 15.

Colusa County offers an excellent benefit package. For a summary of benefits, please click here: 2026 Benefit Summary

Closing Date/Time: 3/1/2026 11:59 PM Pacific

Salary:

$74,376.00 - $121,944.00 Annually