📍 Surry County Detention Center | Dobson, North Carolina
🩺 Physician, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant
🕒 Contract Position | Flexible Schedule | Approximately 3 Hours Per Week
Southern Health Partners has been a leader in correctional healthcare for more than 30 years. We're seeking a Physician, Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant to provide high-quality medical care at the Surry County Detention Center. This independent contract opportunity is ideal for an experienced provider looking to supplement their practice while making a meaningful difference in an underserved patient population.
🩺 What You'll Do- Conduct routine medical evaluations and address acute healthcare concerns
- Assess, diagnose, and develop treatment plans for patients within your scope of practice
- Provide chronic disease management and appropriate follow-up care
- Review nursing assessments, laboratory results, and diagnostic findings
- Prescribe medications and treatments in accordance with facility protocols and state regulations
- Collaborate with nursing staff to ensure continuity and quality of patient care
- Provide clinical guidance and support to the onsite healthcare team
- Maintain accurate and timely electronic medical documentation
- Promote quality improvement initiatives while ensuring compliance with correctional healthcare standards
- Current, unrestricted North Carolina license as a Physician (MD/DO), Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant
- Current DEA registration, if applicable to licensure
- Active BLS certification
- Ability to work independently and make sound clinical decisions
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Correctional, emergency, family practice, or primary care experience is preferred but not required
- Must successfully complete a background check, drug screening, and facility credentialing requirements
- Flexible schedule averaging approximately 3 hours per week
- Independent contractor position
- Opportunity to supplement your existing practice
- Professional liability coverage available through Southern Health Partners
- Collaborative, experienced onsite nursing team
- Safe and secure work environment
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Southern Health Partners welcomes qualified healthcare professionals from diverse backgrounds. This is an independent contractor position. Final engagement is contingent upon successful completion of facility credentialing, background screening, and any applicable licensing or regulatory requirements.
Skills Required
- Current, unrestricted North Carolina license as a Physician (MD/DO), Nurse Practitioner, or Physician Assistant
- Current DEA registration, if applicable to licensure
- Active BLS certification
- Ability to work independently and make sound clinical decisions
- Excellent communication and documentation skills
- Must successfully complete background check, drug screening, and facility credentialing requirements
- Correctional, emergency, family practice, or primary care experience
What We Do
Southern Health Partners, Inc. is a correctional healthcare company providing medical, dental, and mental health services to inmates in county and city jail facilities.
