Correctional Case Manager IV

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;
• Affixes 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; 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.

Qualifications

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.

Note: No substitution will be allowed for the required period of qualifying specialized experience described in levels, II, III, and IV.

Skills

No specific skills are mentioned in the job posting.

Benefits

No specific benefits are mentioned in the job posting.

Pay

$51,007.84

Schedule

Full time