
Licensed Practical Nurse Specialist - Days/$15,000 BONUS
Fredonia, KYFull-time$29.29–32.55/hrSeen todaySeen in employer's feed today
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Job overview
The Licensed Practical Nurse Specialist assists with patient care through assessment, planning, implementation, and evaluation under RN supervision. The role includes implementing treatment programs, administering medications, conducting diagnostic tests, supporting emergency responses, and documenting nursing encounters. The specialist should have training in an area such as Hep C, oncology, or HIV. The position is full-time, day shift, at a Kentucky correctional facility.
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Full job description
You Matter
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Make a difference every day in the lives of the underserved
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Join a mission driven organization with a people first culture
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Excellent career growth opportunities
Join us and find a career that supports:
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Caring for overlooked, underserved, and vulnerable patients
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Autonomy in a warm team environment
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Growth and training
Perks and Benefits
In addition to comprehensive benefits including medical, dental, vision, paid time off, and 401k, we foster a work, life balance for team members and their family to support physical, mental, and financial wellbeing including:
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DailyPay, receive your money as you earn it!
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Tuition Assistance and dependent Scholarships
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Employee Assistance Program (EAP) including free counseling and health coaching
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Company paid life insurance
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Tax free Health Spending Accounts (HSA)
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Wellness program featuring fitness memberships and product discounts
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Preferred banking partnership and discounted rates for home and auto loans
*Eligibility for perks and benefits varies based on employee type and length of service.
Why Us
Now is your moment to make a difference in the lives of the underserved.
If there is one unifying characteristic of everyone on our team, it is the deep desire to make a difference by helping society's most vulnerable and often overlooked individuals. Every day we have the distinct honor and responsibility to show up with non-judgmental compassion to provide hope and healing to those who need it most. For those whose calling it is to serve others, now is your moment to join our mission to provide quality care to every patient with compassion, collaboration, and innovation, to live our mantra to “Always Do The Right Thing!”, and to collectively do our part to heal the world, one patient at a time.
Wellpath sees hundreds of thousands of unique individuals in their facilities month over month and a very large percent of those individuals receive direct clinical care, which includes lives saved by Narcan.
We offer ongoing training and development opportunities for licensed and unlicensed healthcare team members, and have best in class clinical resources for training, education, and point of care support.
How you make a difference
The Licensed Practical Nurse Specialist is responsible for assisting in the delivery of patient care through the nursing process of assessment, planning,implementation,and evaluation. Under the supervision of the RN(s), directs and guides patient teaching and activities that commensurate with his/her education and demonstrated competencies.The Licensed Practical Nurse Specialist should have training in a specialized area such as Hep C, Oncology, HIV.
Key Responsibilities
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Assistsin assessing and planning individualized treatment programs under RN supervision.
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Implements treatment programs, including medication administration and diagnostic tests, following established protocols and safety procedures.
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Participates in emergency responses andassistswith medical or minor surgical procedures as needed.
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Implements nutrition and therapeutic diet plans as ordered by the Health Care Practitioner.
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Documents nursingencountersand communicates necessary information to nursing staff and other personnel.
Additional Details
$15,000 BONUS per RVP
Qualifications & Requirements
Education
- Graduate from an accredited school of nursing.
Experience
- Prefer a minimum of one (1) year clinicexperience.
Licenses/Certifications
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Have andmaintaincurrent licensure as a Licensed Practical/Licensed Vocational Nurse within the state of employment.
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Must be able to obtain andmaintainCPR certification.
This position is available only to those who reside in the United States.
We are an Equal Employment Opportunity Employer
We value the contributions of team members with a broad range of experiences, skills, and perspectives and are committed to providing equal employment opportunity for all.
We encourage you to apply! If you are excited about a role but your experience doesn’t seem to align perfectly with every element of the job description, we encourage you to apply. You may be just the right candidate for this, or one of our many other roles.
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How this job compares
Set against the 15,898 open Nursing jobs on Olive Jobs, counted October 28, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$29.29–32.55/hr
- Kentucky median$7/hr140 hourly ranges
- US median$34–44/hr7,074 hourly ranges
This range's midpoint, $30.92/hr, is 326% above the Kentucky median midpoint ($7/hr) — in the middle half of Nursing hourly ranges in Kentucky.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 221 open Nursing jobs in Kentucky and 15,898 across the US. 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Kentucky
- Baptist Health49 open
- Signature Healthcare24 open
- Norton Healthcare22 open
- Experience
- Nursing postings that state a minimum ask for 2 years of experience at the median; the middle half ask for 1 to 3 years (6,795 postings).
- Education
- 2,121 of the 15,898 open Nursing jobs (13%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on October 28, 2026. Pay medians are the middle values of the low ends and of the high ends of postings that list both ends of a range in the same cadence (a yearly salary or an hourly rate); a range's midpoint is halfway between its ends. Pay and experience figures resting on fewer than 20 postings are left out.
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