Corrections LVN
Los Fresnos, TXContract / Full-time$29/hrPosted 3 days agoSeen in employer's feed 1 day ago
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Amergis is seeking a Licensed Practical Nurse to provide routine and emergency healthcare at an ICE detention center. The Correctional LPN collaborates with healthcare professionals, correctional officers, and administrators to support the well-being of the incarcerated population. The role requires availability for day, evening, and night shifts, as well as weekends and holidays.
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Corrections LVN
Setting: Corrections
Job Type: Contract - Full Time
Pay: $29 / Hour
Hours: 40.00
Location: Los Fresnos, TX
Amergis is searching for a qualified Licensed Practical Nurse for an ICE detention center. The Correctional LPN works in collaboration with other healthcare professionals, correctional officers, and administrators to ensure the well-being of the incarcerated population. The Correctional LPN utilizes their knowledge to address the specific challenges and limitations of the correctional environment while providing care to their patient population. This care includes both routine and emergency health care in a correctional facility setting.
Shifts: This position requires availability to work: day, evening and night shifts; availability during weekends and holidays is also required.
Requiredexperience and education:
Graduate from a Vocational/Practical Nurse program approved by a State, the District of Columbia, or a U.S. territory.
Must have a minimum of one-year experience in a hospital, medical office, or outpatient clinical setting.
Experience in a detention/correctional or residential healthcare setting preferred.
Must be capable of passing a federal background check
Requiredlicensure and certifications:
Maintains current, full and unrestricted LVN/LPN license by the state of Texas. Licenses from other states, including compact state licenses, will not be accepted.
Maintains BLS for Healthcare Providers® certification through the American Heart Association®.
Certified Correctional Health Professional or Certified Corrections Nurse credential preferred.
Inaddition to Amergis’ standard benefits package, we are offering the following:
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2 weeks paid vacation
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Up to 56 hours of paid sick leave
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11 paid federal holidays (regardless of working on the holiday)
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An additional $5.42 per hour up to 40 hours per week
Benefits
At Amergis, we firmly believe that our employees are the heartbeat of our organization and we are happy to offer the following benefits:
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Competitive pay & weekly paychecks
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Health, dental, vision, and life insurance
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401(k) savings plan
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Awards and recognition programs
*Benefit eligibility is dependent on employment status.
About Amergis
Amergis, formerly known as Maxim Healthcare Staffing, has served our clients and communities by connecting people to the work that matters since 1988. We provide meaningful opportunities to our extensive network of healthcare and school-based professionals, ready to work in any hospital, government facility, or school. Through partnership and innovation, Amergis creates unmatched staffing experiences to deliver the best workforce solutions.
Amergis is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, color, religion, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, age, or any other characteristic protected by law.
Job Category: Nursing
Job Function: Nursing | LPN | LPN - Corrections
Job Type: Contract - Full Time
Setting: Corrections
Position Type: Healthcare
Office Number: 0709
Contract Duration: 52
Pay Rate: $29 / Hour
Date Posted: 2026-10-29
How this job compares
Set against the 30,141 open Nurse jobs on Olive Jobs, counted November 1, 2026.
- Pay
- This posting$29/hr
- Texas median$28–35/hr592 hourly ranges
- US median$34–45/hr13,330 hourly ranges
This rate, $29/hr, is 8% below the Texas median midpoint ($32/hr) — in the middle half of Nurse hourly ranges in Texas.
- Openings
- Olive Jobs lists 2,030 open Nurse jobs in Texas and 30,141 across the US. Under 1% of them nationwide are listed as remote or flexible.
- Hiring the most in Texas
- HCA Healthcare461 open
- UTMB Health261 open
- Aveanna Healthcare232 open
- Experience
- This posting asks for at least 1 year of experience; Nurse postings that state a minimum ask for 1 year at the median (12,522 postings).
- Education
- 3,361 of the 30,141 open Nurse jobs (11%) ask for a bachelor's degree or higher.
Counted across the open, public US postings on Olive Jobs on November 1, 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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