Correctional Case Manager

About the role

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.

Responsibilities

• 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.

Requirements

• 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; and of the social and psychological problems facing offenders.
• Ability is required to establish and maintain effective working relationships with others; to communicate effectively; and to determine which segment of the facility will be best suited to an offender’s social and correctional needs.

Qualifications

• Education and Experience requirements at this level consist of a bachelor's degree from an accredited college or university; or an equivalent combination of education and experience, substituting one year of experience in a correctional facility in a position which requires direct contact with inmates for each thirty semester hours of the required education.

Skills

Not specified.

Benefits

Not specified.

Pay

• Level I: I - $38,328.16
• Level II: II - $42,445.52
• Level III: III - $46,664.80

Schedule

Not specified.