Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 (LSW/LPC/MFT) - 20026860

State of Ohio • Lima, OH

1d • Onsite

About The Position

The Behavioral Healthcare Provider 1 works under clinical supervision and requires considerable knowledge of behavioral healthcare programs and techniques. As a member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team, the provider delivers assigned mental health interventions to a caseload of incarcerated people with mental illness. Starting pay is approximately $73,000 based on location. The position is permanent and full-time at Allen/Oakwood Correctional Institution in Lima, Ohio.

The role includes screening and assessment, individual and group clinical interventions, psychosocial support, treatment-plan monitoring, coordination with institution staff and outside organizations, and documentation. Services must remain within the employee’s scope of practice, credentialing-board requirements, and ODRC policy; when the employee is not independently licensed, relevant work is conducted in direct consultation with an independently licensed mental health professional.

The Ohio Department of Rehabilitation and Correction’s mission is to reduce recidivism through rehabilitative treatment and programming in a safe, secure, and humane correctional environment. The agency emphasizes positive change, dignity, respect, and pro-social role modeling. DRC is a qualifying employer for the federal Public Service Student Loan Forgiveness program. The State of Ohio is a tobacco-free and drug-free workplace. Final applicants are subject to pre-employment drug testing and a criminal background investigation.

Requirements

• Must hold an Ohio Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), Licensed Social Worker (LSW), or Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist (MFT) license issued by the Ohio Counselor, Social Work, Marriage & Family Therapy Board.
• Ability to perform duties within the scope of practice and applicable credentialing-board requirements and ODRC policy.
• The position works under clinical supervision; staff who are not independently licensed must consult directly with an independently licensed mental health professional for applicable assessments and interventions.

Responsibilities

• Serve as a member of an interdisciplinary mental health treatment team and provide assigned interventions for a caseload of mentally ill criminal offenders.
• Complete detailed mental health screenings and risk assessments, including suicide-watch assessments when within scope of practice and permitted by credentialing-board requirements and ODRC policy; consult directly with an independently licensed mental health professional when not independently licensed.
• Conduct individual and group clinical interventions prescribed in individual mental health treatment plans, using strategies within scope of practice and as directed by supervision.
• Provide psychosocial group interventions prescribed in mental health treatment plans.
• Provide mental health liaison services to an assigned caseload and monitor progress toward treatment-plan goals.
• Complete psychosocial needs and treatment assessments as part of interdisciplinary treatment planning.
• Complete transfer and discharge summaries.
• Consult institution staff about assigned inmates’ mental health, institutional adjustment, and service needs.
• Initiate and maintain contact with families and community agencies.
• Provide and seek information related to patient care and treatment.
• Make appropriate community referrals as directed by the mental health treatment team.
• Write reports and maintain documentation, including electronic records of inmate contacts, mental health liaison progress notes, discharge plans, forms, and reports, in accordance with policy and protocol.
• Attend social work or counselor supervision meetings.
• Attend in-service training sessions and workshops for professional development.
• May be assigned to teach in-service training.

Benefits

• Medical coverage.
• Dental, vision, and basic life insurance premiums covered after completion of the eligibility period.
• Paid time off, including vacation, personal and sick leave, plus 11 paid holidays per year.
• Childbirth, adoption, and foster care leave.
• Education and development opportunities, including employee development funds and Public Service Loan Forgiveness.
• Public retirement systems, including OPERS, STRS, SERS, and HPRS, and optional deferred compensation through Ohio Deferred Compensation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Education Level: No Education Listed