Advanced Clinical Social Worker (40 Hour)

State of Connecticut - Department of Correction; East Lyme (CT); On-site; USD 72,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hazardous Duty Position

Pension plan

State Employee Benefits Overview

Job summary

The Connecticut Department of Correction is seeking an Advanced Clinical Social Worker for the York Correctional Institution in East Lyme, CT. The role includes leading multidisciplinary teams, conducting psychosocial assessments, and delivering crisis intervention and clinical services to adults with serious mental illness, often with co-occurring substance use disorders.

You will work a 40-hour week on the first shift, Monday through Friday, 7:00am–3:00pm, with rotating weekends and holidays,

Qualifications

• Licensed clinical social worker with active license.
• Minimum 1 year of licensed clinical social worker experience.
• Preferred experience in correctional or forensic settings.

Responsibilities

• Lead multidisciplinary treatment team for individual, group and family therapy.
• Develop psychosocial assessments and crisis plans.
• Provide crisis management and clinical services to adults with serious mental illness.

Skills

Clinical Social Work

Crisis Intervention

Forensic Behavioral Health

Team Leadership

Job description

Introduction

The Connecticut Department of Correction is seeking to fill a position for highly motivated and experienced Advanced Clinical Social Worker at the York Correctional Institution in East Lyme, CT.

WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU

• Visit our State Employee Benefits Overview page to learn about our medical and dental insurance plans, sick/vacation/personal leave accruals, state holidays, tuition reimbursement and more!
• This is a Hazardous Duty Position and offers a pension plan, the State Employees Retirement System Tier IV.
• As a Hazardous Duty employee, you will be eligible to retire after just 25 years of service, regardless of your age.
• A healthy work/life balance to all employees.
• Our state has a lot to offer - from fun activities for all ages, to great food and shopping, to beautiful state parks and forests, to our diverse cultures and rich history.
• Connecticut is a great place to live! Learn more about Connecticut here.

POSITION DETAILS

This is a full-time, 40 hour per week position on first shift. Schedule is Monday-Friday between 7:00am and 3:00pm with rotating weekend and holiday shifts.

In this position, you will discover the opportunity to:

• Be a lead member of a multi-disciplinary treatment team providing highly skilled individual, group and family treatment
• Perform and develop comprehensive psychosocial assessments, crisis response plans and treatment plans
• Provide crisis management and clinical services to adults with serious mental illness, often with co-occurring substance use disorders

ABOUT US

Our Mission: The State of Connecticut, Department of Correction shall strive to be a global leader in progressive correctional practices and partnered re-entry initiatives to support responsive evidence-based practices aligned to law-abiding and accountable behaviors. Safe and security shall be a priority component of this responsibility as it pertains to staff, victims, citizens and offenders.

The York Correctional Institution is a high-security facility. It serves as the state's only institution for female offenders. It serves all superior courts in Connecticut and manages all pretrial and sentenced female offenders, whatever their security level. The programming units at the facility have an extensive array of positive interventions for the population, including the 80-bed intensive, inpatient drug treatment unit, the Marilyn Baker House.

PURPOSE OF JOB CLASS (NATURE OF WORK)

In a state agency behavioral health program as part of a multi-disciplinary team at one or more locations this class is accountable for skilled clinical social work treatment and leadership services involving complex case assignments.

EXAMPLES OF DUTIES

• Independently provides highly skilled direct clinical social work treatment and/or substance abuse services to clients with complex psychological and social problems through comprehensive clinical assessments and provision of individual, family and group treatment;
• Provides individual field work instruction and/or clinical supervision which includes instruction in use of comprehensive psychosocial assessments and current diagnostic categories, taking into consideration cultural, social, economic, medical, environmental and legal issues;
• Develops comprehensive service plans including measurable treatment objectives;
• Initiates consultation and collaboration with other mental health providers to improve delivery of current services and/or identify unmet needs within current service system;
• Provides clinical supervision to Licensed Master Social Workers;
• Assists in resolution of administrative, personnel and clinical issues in program and/or agency;
• Develops data for statistical and planning systems and/or research and publication;
• Prepares administrative reports and suggests operational policies and procedures;
• Oversees development and/or implementation of individual client treatment and/or service plans;
• May be assigned administrative oversight of research projects;
• May provide clinical and/or administrative leadership to program components such as crisis intervention teams, inpatient treatment teams, case management teams, psychoeducational program services, psychosocial rehabilitation and forensic services;
• May provide forensic evaluations and expert testimony to courts;
• May represent program or agency during licensing and certification inspections conducted by regulatory bodies;
• May represent program or agency in liaison relationships with other community agencies and resources;
• May provide in-service educational presentations concerning available health, mental health and human services resources and means to access them;
• May chair facility or community-based committees that develop policies and plans to serve psychiatrically disabled individuals;
• May present information on mental illness and mental health services to community groups;
• Performs related duties as required

KNOWLEDGE, SKILL AND ABILITY

• Considerable knowledge of
• and ability to instruct others about theories of human behavior, current diagnostic categories of mental illness, family dynamics, substance abuse and human sexuality;
• of social, cultural, economic, political, religious, medical, psychological and legal issues which influence behavior of clients, families, service programs and society at large;
• Knowledge of statutes, regulations and standards relating to mental health services; state law governing licensed clinical social worker practice standards;
• oral and written communication skills; administrative skills;
• Considerable ability to independently apply in practice current psychiatric treatment modalities including but not limited to behavioral, cognitive, object-relations, crisis intervention and psychosocial rehabilitation approaches;
• Ability to integrate theory and case material in assessing and devising comprehensive treatment and/or service plans for difficult and/or complex case assignments;
• lead task groups including but not limited to treatment teams and agency committees

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS - GENERAL EXPERIENCE

One (1) year of experience as a licensed clinical social worker.

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Correctional or Forensic Behavioral health treatment experience.
• Experience with crisis intervention.
• Experience with behavior management.
• Experience with individual and group psychotherapy.
• Experience with criminal justice involved adults.

SPECIAL REQUIREMENTS

• Incumbents in this class must possess and retain a license to practice clinical social work pursuant to Sec. 20-195 (m-z) of the Connecticut General Statutes.
• Incumbents in this class must possess and maintain eligibility for participation in federal health care programs as defined in 42 U.S. § 1320a-7b(f).
• Incumbents in this class may be required to have knowledge of sign language and communication ability with the deaf and hearing impaired in designated positions.
• Incumbents in this class may be required to have ability in Spanish oral and written communication in designated positions.
• Incumbents in this class may be required to travel.

AN AFFIRMATIVE ACTION/EQUAL OPPORTUNITY EMPLOYER

The State of Connecticut is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer and strongly encourages the applications of women, minorities, and persons with disabilities.

Acknowledgement

As defined by Sec. 5-196 of the Connecticut General Statutes, a job class is a position or group of positions that share general characteristics and are categorized under a single title for administrative purposes. As such, a job class is not meant to be all-inclusive of every task and/or responsibility.