Correctional Case Manager IV

131 DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS; Taft (OK); On-site; USD 43,000 - 59,000; Full time

Job summary

Correctional Case Manager IV Agency 131 at DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS leads routine social casework for offender classification and re-entry planning. The role involves supervising other case managers and coordinating with partners to provide transitional services.

The position focuses on evaluating offender needs, developing transition plans, and ensuring proper documentation and reports such as parole summaries.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience requirements include a bachelor’s degree and four years of correctional records management or social casework.
• Master’s degree can substitute for one year of specialized experience; or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Knowledge, Skills, Abilities and Competencies cover interviewing, counseling, and supervisory capabilities.
• No substitution is allowed for the required experience levels in II, III, and IV.

Responsibilities

• Uses interview techniques and assessment instruments to determine offender security risks and programmatic needs; prepares case history reports and recommends program assignments.
• Reviews work and conduct records to determine progress or changes in assignments or security classification; serves on the classification unit for a caseload.
• Advises offenders on personal problems, employment resources, vocational skills, educational and training needs, family problems and institutional adjustment.
• Delivers programs to offenders to aid in successful re-entry into the community after release.
• Assists with or prepares reports such as parole summaries or presentence investigations.
• 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

Case management

Communication

Supervision

Education

Bachelor's degree

Four years of correctional records management or social casework

Job description

Correctional Case Manager IV Agency 131

DEPARTMENT OF CORRECTIONS Supervisory Organization

DOC JDCC Job Posting End Date Refer to the date listed at the top of this posting, if available. Continuous if date is blank.

Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the posting end date above.

Estimated Appointment End Date (Continuous if Blank)

Full/Part-Time Full time

Job Type Regular

Compensation $51,007.84

Job Description 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

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.

Additional Information

Jess Dunn Correctional Center.

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