Correctional Case Manager IV

okgov; Oklahoma; On-site; USD 46,000 - 56,000; Full time

Job summary

The Oklahoma Department of Corrections seeks a Correctional Case Manager IV for Jess Dunn Correctional Center. You will perform routine social casework in offender classification and support the re-entry process into the community.

Responsibilities include interviewing offenders, assessing security risks and program needs, reviewing records, and guiding transition plans with community partners to ensure successful reintegration post-release.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree requirement and four years of correctional records management or social casework.
• Substitution rules allow a master's degree for one year of the required experience.
• No substitution for required specialized experience described for higher levels.

Responsibilities

• Uses interview techniques and assessment instruments to determine offenders' needs and recommends program assignments.
• Reviews offender records to determine progress or need for changing assignments or security classification.
• Advises offenders on personal problems, employment resources, vocational skills, education and training needs.
• Delivers programs to assist in re-entry into the community after release from incarceration.
• Develops, monitors, and amends offender transition plans in line with re-entry programs and services.
• Establishes collaborative networks with partners to provide pre- and post-release services.

Skills

Interview techniques

Assessment instruments

Counseling

Offender resources

Vocational guidance

Educational needs

Family support

Institutional adjustment

Education

Bachelor's degree

Master's degree substitution

Job description

Correctional Case Manager IV

Agency: 131 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS

Supervisory Organization: DOC JDCC

Full/Part-Time: Full time

Job Type: Regular

Compensation: $51,007.84- this salary is non-negotiable.

Job Description

Location

Jess Dunn Correctional Center

Basic Purpose

Positions within this job family are assigned responsibilities involving providing routine social casework in the classification and assignment of offenders committed to a correctional institution or advanced social casework pertaining to the re-entry of offenders into the community.

Typical Functions

• Uses interview techniques and assessment instruments to determine the offender's security risks and programmatic needs; prepares case history reports and recommends program assignments.
• Reviews work and conduct records of all assigned offenders to determine progress or necessity of changing assignments or security classification; serves as a member of the classification unit for an assigned caseload.
• Advises offenders on personal problems, employment resources, vocational skills, educational and training needs, family problems and institutional adjustment.
• Delivers programs to offenders which are designed to assist in a successful re-entry into the community following release from incarceration.
• Assists with or prepares reports such as parole summaries or court ordered presentence investigations.
• Receives and takes necessary action on incoming and outgoing mail to or from assigned offenders.
• Develops, monitors, and amends offender transition plans in line with re-entry programs and services.
• Establishes collaborative network with relevant partners to provide support, pre and post release services for offenders which involve family members and community resources and social service agencies.

Level Descriptor

This is the leadership level where incumbents supervise other case managers and treatment providers as well as perform the more complex duties concerning the classification and programmatic needs of offenders.

Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities required at this level include knowledge of vocational guidance and social adjustment principles; of available institutional industrial positions and the future market for those skills; of interviewing and counseling techniques; of the social and psychological problems facing offenders; of the principles of personality development and adjustments; of the social structure of an offender population and individual assimilation into it; of related government laws and practices; of community resources; and of the principles and practices of effective supervision. Ability is required to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; to communicate effectively; to determine which segment of the facility will be best suited to an offender's social and correctional needs; to motivate offenders in a positive, constructive manner; and to supervise and direct the work of others.

Education and Experience

Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor's degree and four years of correctional records management or social casework which involved the classification and assignment, field supervision, apprehension or investigation of offenders, or as a chief of security in a community corrections center, or in a professional administrative position with responsibilities for maintaining inmate records, establishing procedures or serving as an assistant to a warden. Substitution of a master's degree for one year only of the required specialized experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience substituting one year of the experience in a correctional facility in a position which requires direct contact with inmates for each thirty semester hours of the required education.

Note: No substitution will be allowed for the required period of qualifying specialized experience described in levels, II, III, and IV.

This is an on-site position and is not eligible for remote work.

Equal Opportunity Employment

The State of Oklahoma is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of genetic information, race, religion, color, sex, age, national origin, or disability.