Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 (LSW/LPC/MFT) 20022389
This position
Works under clinical supervision and requires considerable knowledge of behavioral healthcare programs and program techniques.
Responsibilities
- Works as a 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.
Requirements
Starting pay is approximately $70,000 based on location. DRC is a “qualifying employer” for purposes of the federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program.
Qualifications
- Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
- Licensed Social Worker (LSW) by Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
- Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) by the State of Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
Skills
- Behavioral Health
- Basic Documentation
- Programming
- Professional
- Confidentiality
- Teamwork
- Customer Focus
- Decision Making
- Emotional Intelligence
- Organization
- Retail Rehabilitation & Correction - Correctional Reception Center
- Technical Skills: Basic Documentation, Programming, Behavioral Health, Professional
- Professional Skills: Customer Focus, Decision Making, Emotional Intelligence, Teamwork, Confidentiality
Benefits
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. Only those applicants possessing the required license(s) documented in the position description are to be considered for any vacancies posted or in case of displacement due to a layoff.
Pay
Starting pay is approximately $70,000 based on location.
Schedule
Full-time
Union
1199
Agency Contact Name and Information
Personnel Director
614-585-5016 / DRC.CRCRecruit@drc.ohio.gov
Unposting Date
Aug 27, 2026, 11:59:00 PM
Work Location
Correction Reception Center
Primary Location
United States of America-OHIO-Pickaway County-Orient