Salary : $8,888.53 - $13,189.00 Monthly
Location : Angola, LA
Job Type: Promotion
Job Number: 402-26-076
Department: DOC-Louisiana State Penitentiary
Opening Date: 08/31/2026
Closing Date: 9/5/2026 11:59 PM Central

Provide executive-level leadership, direction, and oversight of nursing services and programs at Louisiana State Penitentiary, ensuring the safe, effective, and efficient delivery of quality healthcare while maintaining appropriate staffing, regulatory compliance, performance standards, and continuity of nursing operations. The position also serves as the primary assistant to the RN Director of Nursing and assumes the Director's responsibilities in their absence.
Minimum Qualifications
Possession of a current Louisiana Registered Nurse license or a temporary permit or multi-state license issued by a Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC/eNLC) state to practice as a registered nurse plus one of the following:

Five years of experience as a licensed registered nurse; OR

A bachelor's degree in nursing plus four years of experience as a licensed registered nurse; OR

A master's degree in nursing or public health plus four years of experience as a licensed registered nurse; OR

A doctorate in nursing or public health plus three years of experience as a licensed registered nurse.

Job Specification

The official job specifications for this role, as defined by the State Civil Service, can be found here.
Job Duties and Other Information

• Direct and Manage Nursing Services and Clinical Programs - Directs nursing services across assigned areas, including mental health, specialty and general medicine clinics, telemedicine, off-site medical trips, pill call, chronic disease, admission units, inpatient nursing units, hemodialysis, hospice/palliative care, and other specialized nursing programs.
• Provide Nursing Administration, Staffing, and Personnel Management - Oversees nursing operations, determines staffing needs and organizational structure, ensures adequate nursing coverage, manages hiring and employee performance, supervises subordinate managers and staff, and addresses personnel and disciplinary matters.
• Ensure Quality Improvement, Regulatory Compliance, and Staff Education - Directs quality assurance/performance improvement activities, nursing education and continuing education, infection control, employee health, risk management, and compliance with applicable policies, licensing requirements, and ACA performance-based standards.
• Provide Executive Nursing Leadership and Administrative Oversight - Serves as the primary assistant to the RN Director of Nursing and assumes the Director's duties in their absence; oversees budgets, supplies and equipment, program evaluation, operational policies and procedures, statistical reporting, and coordination with other healthcare and institutional departments.
• Employee will work with adult male inmates of all custody levels - minimum, medium, maximum (death row) and protective custody.

Position-Specific Details:

Appointment Type: Promotion of a permanent, classified employee of LA DPS&C - CORRECTIONS SERVICES (Adult DOC)

• The selected employee may be required to serve a trial detail prior to being permanently promoted, or may be required to accept a probational appointment.

Compensation:
This position has a Special Entrance Rate of $51.28 per hour.
There is a Premium Pay rate up to $5.00 per hour for each hour worked based on years of service with DOC, in addition to regular pay.

Other Important Information:

• IMPORTANT: In the supplemental questions section, applicants must authorize the HR Office of DPS&C-Corrections Services to contact prior employers to check references under the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA), to be considered for employment, by answering 'YES' to the PREA question.
• Any degree, certificate, special license, or DD-214 must be verified by official documentation prior to hire.
• Any qualifying experience that is based on college credit/college hours should have an accompanying transcript for verification.
  • This is a 24 hour facility.
  • Applicants may be required to work shift work.
  • This Agency is a Drug Free Workplace.

How to Apply:

No Civil Service test score is required in order to be considered for this vacancy.

To apply for this vacancy, click on the "Apply" link above and complete an electronic application, which can be used for this vacancy as well as future job opportunities. Applicants are responsible for checking the status of their application to determine where they are in the recruitment process. Further status message information is located under the Information section of the Current Job Opportunities page.

*Information to support your eligibility for this job title must be included in the application (i.e., relevant, detailed experience/education). Resumes will not be accepted in lieu of completed education and experience sections on your application. Applications may be rejected if incomplete.

• There is no guarantee that everyone who applies to this posting will be interviewed. The hiring supervisor/manager has 90 days from the closing date of the announcement to make a hiring decision. Specific information about this job will be provided to you in the interview process, should you be selected.
• To view and apply to any of our other postings we currently have available, click HERE.

For further information about this vacancy contact:

Chassity Rheams

Human Resources Department

[email protected]

Ph: (225) 655-2056

Fax: (225) 342-5968
01

Are you currently a permanent classified employee of the Department of Corrections/Corrections Services (Adult DOC)?

• Yes
• No

02

If you have previous employment in a community confinement center, jail, lockup or prison, the Prison Rape Elimination Act (PREA) requires Corrections Human Resources to contact those employers prior to hiring any applicant for information on substantiated allegations of sexual abuse or any resignation during a pending investigation of an allegation of sexual abuse.Do you authorize the Human Resources Office of the Department of Public Safety and Corrections, Corrections Services, to contact any of your prior employers, whether listed on your employment application or not, to ascertain information required by the Prison Rape Elimination Act, Part 115 of Title 28 of the Code of Federal Regulations? I understand that prior to any offer of employment by the Department of Public Safety and Corrections that such information must be obtained. IMPORTANT: I also understand that if I do not authorize such contact, I will not be eligible for employment with the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.Should I be appointed from this announcement, I also understand that this authorization will remain valid for the duration of my employment with the Department of Public Safety and Corrections.Questions should be directed to Human Resources as noted in the Supplemental Information section of this job posting.

• Yes, I understand. You may contact my employers, past or present.
• No. Do not contact my employers, past or present, and DO NOT CONSIDER ME as a candidate for employment.

03

Do you possess a valid LOUISIANA license or temporary permit to practice as a REGISTERED NURSE, OR a multi-state license issued by a Nursing Licensure Compact (NLC/eNLC) state?

• Yes
• No

04

If you answered 'YES' to the previous question, please list the TYPE, license NUMBER, the issue STATE, and expiration date. Failure to provide ALL information could result in your application not being considered.If you answered "no" enter "n/a"
Required Question