Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 (LSW/LPC) 20092737

What You’ll Do

• Works under clinical supervision and requires considerable knowledge of behavioral healthcare programs and program techniques.
• Member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team, responsible for assigned mental health interventions for a caseload of mentally ill criminal offenders.
• Conducts individual and group clinical interventions as prescribed on the individual mental health treatment plan using clinical intervention strategies within their scope of practice and directed by supervision.
• Provides psychosocial group interventions as prescribed on the mental health treatment plan.
• Provides mental health liaison services to an assigned caseload, including the monitoring of the offender progress with the mental health treatment plan goals.
• 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.
• Makes appropriate community referrals, per mental health treatment team.
• Writes reports and/or documentation to include electronic documentation of all inmate contacts, mental health liaison progress note entries, discharge plans and miscellaneous forms and reports as needed, per policy and protocol.
• Attends meetings of social work or counselor supervision.
• Attends in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development.
• May be assigned to teach in-service.

Job Skills

• Behavioral Health
• Basic Documentation
• Programming
• Professional
• Confidentiality
• Teamwork
• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Emotional Intelligence
• Organization

Agency Contact Name and Information

Personnel Director
740-314-6623
DRC.BECIRecruit@drc.ohio.gov

Work Location

Belmont Correctional Institute

Primary Location

United States of America-OHIO-Belmont County-St. Clairsville

Schedule

Full-time

Classified Indicator

Classified

Union

1199

Starting Pay

Approximately $58,000 based on location.

Note

The official position description on file with the designated agency is to reflect, in the minimum acceptable characteristics, the required license(s) related to the scope of practice and services provided as described in the job duties.

Technical Skills

• Basic Documentation
• Programming
• Behavioral Health
• Professional

Professional Skills

• Customer Focus
• Decision Making
• Emotional Intelligence
• Teamwork
• Confidentiality