Behavioral Healthcare Provider 2 (LISW/LPCC/IMFT) 20025800

Job ID: 20025800 | Organization: Rehabilitation & Correction – Lebanon Correctional Agency | Contact: Personnel Director, 513/409-8003, DRC.LECIRecruit@drc.ohio.gov | Location: 3791 State Route 63, Lebanon, OH 45036 | Union: 1199 | Classified Position

About the role

Guided by the mission “To reduce recidivism among those we touch,” the Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction (DRC) operates on core values of dignity, respect, and pro-social role modeling. DRC provides front-line crime reduction through rehabilitative treatment and programming in a safe, secure, and humane correctional environment, with the goal of helping individuals turn away from crime and become productive community members. Learn more at www.drc.ohio.gov.

Pay

Hourly rate: $29.95. Starting annual salary approximately $70,000 based on location. DRC is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program.

Schedule

Permanent, full-time position.

Responsibilities

• Complete detailed screens, mental health evaluations, and crisis services including suicide watch assessments within scope of practice
• Provide clinical direction to lower-level workers
• Serve as treatment team coordinator as assigned
• Conduct advanced practice individual and group clinical interventions as prescribed on the individual mental health treatment plan, using clinical intervention strategies within scope of practice and directed by supervisor
• Provide clinical case management services to an assigned caseload, including monitoring offender compliance with the mental health treatment plan
• Complete psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning
• Complete transfer and discharge summaries
• Consult with other institution staff regarding the mental health caseload inmate’s institutional adjustment and service needs
• Initiate and maintain contact with families and community agencies
• Provide and seek information relative to patient care and treatment
• Make appropriate community and re-entry referrals per mental health treatment team
• Write reports and documentation including documentation of all inmate contacts, clinical case management progress notes, discharge plans, and miscellaneous forms and reports as needed per policy and protocol
• Attend meetings with supervision
• Attend in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development
• Participate in peer review as assigned

Qualifications

Must hold one of the following current Ohio licenses:

• Licensed Independent Social Worker (LISW) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board
• Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor (LPCC) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board
• Licensed Independent Marriage and Family Therapist (IMFT) by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board

Only applicants possessing the required license(s) documented in the position description will be considered.

Skills

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

Benefits

Eligible full-time employees receive a comprehensive benefits package including:

• Medical coverage
• Free dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums after completion of eligibility period
• Paid time off (vacation, personal, sick leave) and 11 paid holidays per year
• Childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave
• Education and development opportunities (Employee Development Funds, Public Service Loan Forgiveness, and more)
• Public retirement systems (OPERS, STRS, SERS, HPRS) and optional deferred compensation (Ohio Deferred Compensation)

Benefits eligibility depends on several factors; the agency contact can provide specifics for this position.