Starting pay approximately $77,000 based on location.
Responsibilities
- Completes detailed screens, mental health evaluations and crisis services including suicide watch assessments within scope of practice.
- Provides clinical direction to lower level workers.
- May serve as treatment team coordinator.
- Conducts advanced practice individual and group clinical interventions as prescribed on the individual mental health treatment plan, using intervention strategies within scope of practice and directed by supervisor.
- Provides clinical case management services to an assigned caseload, including monitoring offender compliance with the mental health treatment plan.
- Completes psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning.
- Completes transfer and discharge summaries.
- Consults with other institution staff regarding the mental health caseload inmate’s institutional adjustment and service needs.
- Initiates and maintains contact with families and community agencies.
- Provides and seeks information relative to patient care and treatment.
- Makes appropriate community and re‑entry referrals, per mental health treatment team.
- Writes reports or documentation to include documentation of all inmate contacts, clinical case management progress note entries, discharge plans and miscellaneous forms and reports as needed per policy and protocol.
- Attends meetings with supervision.
- Attends in‑service training sessions and workshops for professional development.
- Participates in peer review as assigned.
Qualifications
Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board; licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board; or Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist (IMFT) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
Location: Allen Correctional Institute, United States of America-OHIO-Allen County-Lima. Schedule: Full‑time.